SnapBox - A Social Experiment

Share Suggestions and see what nearby users have to say. Snap if you agree :)

A few weeks ago at a Hackathon a friend and I thought about creating an App to recreate the

experience of a Suggestion Box and improve on it. Asking a person for a suggestion without

specifying further allows us to learn how people think at certain locations.

We started to built an App, called “SnapBox”, that lets users put in a location based suggestion

and other users could see suggestions submitted in 500 feet proximity and vote on them, by

snapping in agreement. This app uses a shared Parse backend for Android and iOS where

suggestions, users and locations are stored.

Features:

• Anonymous instant user signup on first start – getting started is easy

• Anyone can post anywhere

• See what suggestions have been left in 500 feet proximity

• Snap to agree, every user can upvote every suggestion once

• Flag inappropriate content – suggestions that have been flagged by four users are deleted