Hi,
Thanks for the feedback! Yes we consider Pokemon Go to be one of our main competitors. Yes it certainly will be worldwide. The world is our playground and you will be able to create challenges anywhere in the world.
Examples here:
1. A user is in Amsterdam (the city that we are starting in, because it's where we are based, and we already have the contacts with businesses, such as Ripley's believe it or not!), they are able to view challenges that are on the map view, clicking on the challenge gives more information about the challenge. This could be something like visit Vondelpark (the main park in Amsterdam), or find a particular statue on the Museumplein. Think of it as a treasure hunt in foreign cities.
2. The user goes to the location, takes a photo and then if the user is close enough to the location (100m in our case), the user gets the points.
3. The user can then spend these points in local businesses, cafes and restaurants. Advertising is much reduced for these businesses, since you are already close and so the advertising can be targeted.
But there's more:
1. If I go to Barcelona, and I see something which I think one of my friends would really like, let's call her Alice (in the Blockchain we always use Alice and Bob it seems). I can leave a challenge for her. Imagine that I see a wonderful little cafe, I can let Alice know by adding a challenge and rewarding Alice when she goes, the great thing is that I would get rewarded back when Alice spends points in the cafe.
Final Example:
1. I'm in a crowded square in Paris, I see a mime artist, I drop a public challenge (a challenge viewable by all nearby users), saying that I'd give 50 points, to the first person to start break-dancing on the square, or take a selfie with the mime artist, something crazy!
Thanks a lot for your interest,
Finally,
We are a team of 5, our team can be found on our site (
https://www.snapcity.io). We have ex-Googlers and Palantir software developers working on the project as we speak (our LinkedIn profiles and GitHub links are on the site too!), and we know we can have the application in production by Q1 '18.
Our decentralised and distributed block-chain based solution will also reward users for verifying challenge applications.
Thanks,
Daniel