Posted by Leticia Lago, Developer Advertising and marketing

Final summer season #WeArePlay went on a digital tour of the U.S. to highlight the tales of app and recreation founders from each state, and earlier this yr we visited India sharing tales from throughout the nation. At the moment, we’re persevering with our tour internationally with our subsequent cease: Europe. From an app growing independence for the aged to a recreation for kids with neurodevelopmental problems, meet the founders of 126 apps and video games firms constructing rising companies on Google Play.

Let’s take a fast highway journey throughout the area, with tales of founders that had been impressed to create their firm to assist others round them.

Geert, cofounder of Cubigo

Growing independence for aged individuals

First up is Geert from Belgium, who’s the founding father of Cubigo. When Geert’s grandmother moved right into a nursing residence, managing her care felt overwhelming so he used his expertise from working in tech to create his app. It’s geared toward aged individuals – they’ll use it to e book taxis, days out, order meals, schedule appointments and message associates. Household and nursing workers can even keep up to date with their plans and actions, to allow them to present higher help. His goal is to offer aged individuals independence, and Geert hopes Cubigo will develop into a world participant in senior care. Learn extra tales from Belgium.

Zafer and Sercan, co-founders of Otsimo

Video games designed for kids with neurodevelopmental problems

Subsequent up are associates and co-founders Zafer and Sercan from Turkey, who co-founded gaming firm Otsimo. As a teen, Zafer bought inspiration to create cell instruments for youths with studying difficulties by seeing his autistic brother get pleasure from enjoying on his telephone. Quick ahead to his school years, Zafer and his course mate Sercan made a collection of apps geared toward youngsters with delayed speech and developmental problems. The primary, created alongside particular wants specialists, was Otsimo | Particular Training which could be tailor-made to the person’s necessities. Their apps use voice recognition and machine studying to assist youngsters enhance their speech, cognitive and social expertise, with rewards and stickers to maintain it enjoyable. The Otsimo group have simply launched a completely customizable Augmentative and Various Communication (AAC) app for non-verbal individuals of all ages. Learn extra tales from Turkey.

Maxence and Oxana, co-founders of Appsent

Making residence administration and cleansing simpler for everybody

Final however not least, now we have Maxence and Oxana from France, co-founders of Appsent. Maxence and Oxana struggled to maintain their home clear once they had been each working from residence. Sweepy is their resolution – it’s a sensible residence cleansing schedule that assigns family duties on specific days and for specific individuals. The couple are actually proud that their app has been downloaded by a lot of individuals with autism and ADHD, who inform them that it helps them to handle their houses. They’re now growing a factors and rewards function, to attempt to encourage youngsters to become involved within the house responsibilities too. Learn extra tales from France.

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