One step at a time

Inspiration

Inspired by Mentor Walks for women

What it does

An app and website that allows users to set preferences (location, date, language, culture, gender, age, interests) and be matched with a walking companion for a one-off walk and talk

How we built it

Luigi, our iOS developer built an iOS prototype

Challenges we ran into

Concerns around security risks, will people want to do this, do we need incentives to take part

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Quick user validation on day 1 with 3 test walks and follow-up interviews

What we learned

Our assumptions about 1:1 walks may be wrong - maybe small groups or families could be better initially Need to be careful about conversation topics and sensitive areas