Qaddoo Launches New Mobile Platform For Engaging With People Around Your Location Without Revealing Your Identity
Qaddoo is a location-aware platform, which allows people who are physically within a certain range and who share a similar interest to interact through real-time conversations, personal chats, firefly events and topics.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 23, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Qaddoo, a mobile platform which lets you socialize with the people around your location in real-time without sharing your identity, has launched a mobile app for iOS and Android. Qaddoo, which is a San Francisco based startup did a soft launch for the app last year with invitation only for users at limited locations. The newly launched version is available immediately to all the users world-wide through Apple and Google app stores free of charge.
The idea behind Qaddoo started with a goal to give back control to people over their identity. In the age of social media it seems we are slowly losing control of our identity or being constantly targeted by marketing. Social media platforms have become a medium to one up each other and it seems we are losing our humanity in the process and companies have turned us into commodities to be traded and sold to the highest bidder, quite literally.
The creators of Qaddoo had gone to many business conferences and events and always wondered if there was a safe and consistent way for all the people there to interact with each other, securely and privately? Imagine how many conversations could take place around common areas of interest if there was no concern of losing their privacy or personally identifiable information. Seeing that every event has an app of their own and none of the social media platforms offered security or privacy, they decided to develop a platform that will allow just this.
Qaddoo is designed for people who are at a certain place and are looking to interact with people around them to discover useful information to make their experience more enjoyable; or for people who wish to break the ice with like minded people.
Qaddoo lets you create TANs (Transient Area Networks) or commonly called communities of users who are at a particular location within 0-5 miles radius. You can find a TAN according to your area of interest and engage with the user community in that TAN, or simply create your own, if you don't find a relevant one that you are looking for and others can join that TAN.
Anonymity is the key to Qaddoo. Unless you wish to share, nobody will know who you are. A unique feature of Qaddoo is Firefly. At an event like a Concert or a Sports Game, the TAN owner can create a firefly event which is visible to everyone at that location and the users using Qaddoo can join the Firefly. Once users join Firefly, at the event start time, everyone's flashlight lights up in unison to create a beautifully synchronized dance of lights. This gives a beautiful Firefly effect in the concert hall or stadium to cheer up your favorite artist to see all the fans cheer up as "One". Be the part of this one voice, use Firefly at an event to believe.
Sumit Kapoor and Anurag Gupta, the creators of Qaddoo, were disillusioned by existing social networking apps and platforms, especially in the light of all the negative news around the barter and sale of our private information as commodities, by companies who broke our trust when we shared our private information with them. We appreciate the power of social networking platforms and their ability to make the world a better place, but the true potential can only be realized if our private information remains in our control.
Qaddoo truly believes in the power of community and for that reason have also launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money through crowd-funding to build more engaging features for the users and to ensure Qaddoo continues to be driven by the purpose of socially responsible networking.
Users can download the app in the iOS or Android app stores available now. To learn more about Qaddoo, click here http://www.qaddoo.com.
About Qaddoo
Qaddoo is a location aware mobile platform which allows people who are physically within a certain range and share a similar interest, to interact through real-time conversations, personal chats, firefly events and topics without revealing their identities or private information.
SOURCE Qaddoo, Inc.
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