HOOPLER

HOOPLER

Never leave home without seeing how crowded your destination is.

Role

Co-Founder

Client

Personal Project

Date

2016 (2 Years)

Overview

Hoopler was a start-up I co-founded and the mobile application was developed by a contracted team in Atlanta. The Hoopler project was suspended after Apple started enforcing strict privacy rules on iPhone’s that killed the technology we were trying to develop.

The goal of Hoopler was to make it so you would never have to leave home without seeing how crowded your destination was. This was going to be accomplished by using a Raspberry Pi computer in partnered locations to count the number of Bluetooth signals in range and display it anonymously on our app. Though the technology is still possible at the moment, Apple has already announced plans that would prevent it from working. The Hoopler mobile application allowed users to manually check-in to locations they were near. This allowed the user to share their location information with friends and create events. Though the Raspberry Pi device was never developed before suspending the project, the app was released locally in two major iterations.

My Role

As a co-founder for the project I took on the role of Technology Lead while my friend took on the role of Business Lead. My job was to handle any aspect of the company related to technology, however I did not program or develop any software. Some major roles were to develop the website, design the marketing material, manage communications with the contracted development team, and manage the brand ambassadors.

Product

The software was developed and released locally. The hardware was not completed.


Marketing

I designed marketing material for the project that had use on the app, social media, funding websites, and for entrepreneurial pitches.



Mock-Ups

These designs depict the interface of the first iteration of the Hoopler app, when it was still titled HotSpot.


Final Design

These designs depict the final interface of the of the Hoopler app.