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desktop screenshot of AroundHere with Palm Coast theme
What's the idea behind AroundHere
It's incredibly difficult to find local friends and get to know a city, especially if it's a fairly small or medium sized city. I've lived in Adelaide for 12 years and I know quite little about Adelaide. Information is very scattered and difficult to find. It takes luck and hours of doomscrolling to find any good accurate information about local history, culture, people or nice spots.
AroundHere creates a platform for people to share and find each other, places and events, quickly and efficiently, especially smaller happenings. The map combines all useful information, such as parking, public toilets, cafes with any comments or posts that people have left about this place that might be useful for others to know (which usually gets buried in google reviews or long facebook posts) and neatly organises that information on the map to make it actually useful, and most importantly discoverable and searchable.
Challenges and what's next
Some challenges that the platform will face is that it might be a bit of a ghost town at first, as content comes from users, but that can be solved with notifications encouraging users to add to places that lack information. Currently most of the posts are demo and are based in Adelaide, but in the future the map can include the entire globe.
On a personal note
During the making of the app, we many times shared experiences of how difficult it is to find friends and orient yourself in a new city as a fresh comer, similarly, it's difficult to do the same as a new young adult fresh from high school, so AroundHere is important to us personally too.
