Reqvu, A Mobile App to Put You in the Moment
Conceptually, its hard to grasp what giving you back moments you miss but no its not a teleportation machine or something that splits your body in two allowing you to be in two places at once. Lets say you are away overseas on a business trip and you are missing out on Thanksgiving dinner. Instead of waiting to see what happened after on Facebook, you use the app to tell people what you want to see in the form of pictures or videos. The request you send will be posted on their Facebook wall. For example, you request I want to see you cut the turkey! then whoever is there can instantly send you an image or video of them cutting the turkey. Other people can then share these experiences on Facebook and Youtube.
The purpose of Revqu is to influence things from a demand driven angle, as opposed to wait for something to happen or stumble upon something after it happened. For example, I know my friends are at a party but I might request them to take a stupid photo for me and see it right away. However this can only work on the premise that they have the Revqu app open at the same time as you and are constantly monitoring it. Through a feature called Me2, other people who want to see the same thing as you can click it and request to see it as well. In this way, the person undertaking the action can determine what they do and who sees what.
Action Mode is a check-in like feature of Reqvu that allows people to know where you are in the app and lets people know you are available to ! take pic tures and video requests. For example, my friend is walking around the Eiffel Tower in Paris for half an hour, they turn Action Mode on so I can request them to video it for me.
The start-up is still in the very early stages and is iterating constantly based on what users feel. What do you think?
You can download the app here to try it.
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