Insavior

An app & a community that helps women when they are in danger

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Inspiration

Insavior is an innovative app made by women for women. The idea was born out of the concern of the increased incidents and different forms of violence against women, as molesting, harassment, sexual abuse, physical abuse, domestic violence, street attacks, and the worst case scenario which were the femicides, especially during the pandemic.

Here are some interesting statistics around the alarming rise in domestic and gender-based violence:

  • One woman in Greece or Cyprus faces physical, verbal, or sexual abuse every 47 minutes
  • Girls and women are the 75% of the victims in family violence, in partner violence, & abuse of minors in Cyprus
  • 50,000 femicides happen every year around the world. 137 women are murdered every day, 1 woman every 70 minutes.

Recent examples of violence towards women:

  • Sarah Everard, 33 - London (unknown)
  • Caroline Crouch, 20 - Athens (partner)
  • Garifalia Psarrakou, 26 - Folegandros (partner)
  • Eleni Topaloudi, 21 - Rodos
  • Mary Rose, Sierra 6, Arian Palanas Lozano 28, Libia Bouena 36, Elena-Natalia 8, Marikar Valtez 30

What it does

Insavior is an innovative safety platform for women, integrating a rapid SOS button, a supportive community for immediate assistance, and empowering educational resources to create a comprehensive circle of impact against violence towards women.

The main feature of Insavior’s app is the SOS button where has two levels of danger (high alert & medium alert) and easy access for immediate help and can network automatically the members of an area when a woman is in danger, by providing them with a push notification from the app with her live location, a map and navigation of the woman in need. At the same time, the emergency contacts of the woman in need (requested during her onboarding), will be notified with a message on their phones that their person is in danger and also with a map and navigation so they can reach her and call the police.

We are also experimenting with an AI assistant, in pilot testing for now, powered by Google Gemini, that could guide women in emergency situations.

It also includes a Facebook-style post and comment community, and a content library with self-defence videos and articles.

How we built it

We built it by combining various Low Code + AI tools, as we want to test our hypotheses with our women.

We have used: Flutterflow for the native apps, Google Firebase as a database, Google Gemini (Agent console) to build our AI assistant, UpPass for ID validation while onboarding, Google Cloud Functions for our SOS notifications, and tools like OneSignal and sms.to to notify the emergency contacts. We also used Xano for handling some APIs.

Challenges we ran into

We have faced major challenges in identifying the combination of technologies and tools that could help achieve the result we wanted, especially when it comes to integrating technologies and APIs.

For example, including UpPass as part of the onboarding, or building our notifications infrastructure was a struggle, but we are very happy with the results we have achieved.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are very proud about our work so far:

  • having our first users in this version of the app
  • including ID validation on our onboarding to increase safety and avoid scammers
  • adding AI as part of our work to create the first AI emergency assistant
  • having an SOS button that notifies emergency contacts and users within 5 km

What we learned

We learnt how low code can power amazing tech stacks using less educated "developers", building in reduced times and with a lot of agility.

When we integrated AI, we were amazed by how quickly we could deploy an AI model into our app, and enable a potentially powerful feature.

What's next for Insavior

Our next steps include testing our app with our early users, building our community and features, and saving lives!

If you want to try the app or meet us, please contact us!

Built With

  • flutterflow
  • google-cloud
  • googlefirebase
  • onesignal
  • sms.to
  • uppass
  • xano
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