
The first kick off meeting I’m involved with was for the boys behind the Promise Keeper app along with Charlie and Chris from putITout. This is a very interesting app in that it could have only come out of a kids brain.
By it’s title, you may have guessed that it is all to do with kids and parents keeping a promise made. Speaking with the boys, they said that the idea came out of their own experiences of their parents making a promise and not following through with them.
The boys wanted to be able to capture that promise with a reward for its fulfilment along with the ability to provide evidence that it has been done. The forfeits are for both the Student and the Parent.
The app is a very simple and powerful concept.
I could have done with this when I was a kid. Hell, I could do with this when trying to get some of my clients to stick with what they said they would do. Some how, I can’t see a client admitting to not keeping a promise and performing a forfeit of washing my camper van.
Joe Molloy is a freelance technical consultant, project manager and writer, based in London, UK.
Joe helps start-ups and companies convert their vision and ideas into real world products and services. Joe specialises in helping companies get it done.