Posted by Leticia Lago, Developer Advertising and marketing
We proceed to be impressed by the superb #WeArePlay tales of app and recreation creators on Google Play, from all corners of the Earth. This month, hear a couple of recreation altering monetary app for ladies in Nigeria to an early studying platform that makes use of augmented actuality.
First up, we’re in Nigeria the place two former colleagues at an funding financial institution, Solape and Yomi, channeled their financial experience into enhancing girls’s accessibility to finance. HerVest is an app solely designed for farmers and small enterprise homeowners, with saving and funding ideas, monetary schooling and credit score choices. Intent on enhancing gender equality within the monetary sphere, the pair plan to achieve one million girls by the tip of 2024 and “turn out to be the go-to monetary platform for the financially underserved in Africa”.
Now we’re crossing the ocean into maritime Singapore, the place native Brazilian Juliana launched her baby-led weaning app, BLW Meals. When her firstborn was 6 months outdated, she struggled to transition her onto strong meals. Unable to search out ample assets in her mom language, Portuguese, she determined to make her personal platform, sharing every thing she’d discovered. Immediately, she’s overjoyed by how a lot the app – additionally supplied in Spanish and English – has supported different mothers via their weaning journey. Quickly, she’s launching a brand new function for chatting straight with nutritionists, making certain dad and mom at all times have an knowledgeable available to information them.
Subsequent, we’re heading over to the UK to fulfill mechanical engineer Harry, who’s on a mission to revolutionize perceptions round energy-limiting well being situations. When he obtained sick with lengthy Covid after a light an infection in 2020, his skill to do the wild, athletic actions he as soon as loved – like biking throughout Iceland – was now not on the playing cards. Upset by the shortage of remedy choices, he determined to create a well being monitoring app, partnering up with buddy and tech lawyer Luke to make it occur. On Seen, sufferers are empowered to trace and monitor their signs and exercise ranges. The anonymized information can also be utilized by medical researchers to enhance understanding and remedy choices, feeding into Harry’s bigger aim of “working to vary well being coverage legal guidelines to acknowledge these situations”.
Lastly, we’re heading to Chile, South America, to fulfill brothers Ilan and Edison and their buddy Nastassja. A veritable dream workforce, the trio started their tech careers working an augmented actuality commercial company of their native Venezuela. However once they noticed how a lot children cherished their commercials, they determined to as an alternative use their AR abilities to develop an schooling platform for kids. After being supplied a spot on an accelerator program, they moved to Chile to launch PleIQ – an immersive, early studying app for teenagers aged 3-8. Subsequent, they’re increasing throughout Latin America with the aim of “enhancing schooling high quality to create a extra equal society”.
