Streetwise - Safe navigation app for women walking alone
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Streetwise helps you find the safest walking routes, not just the fastest. Built after learning that 8/10 women in Paris experience street harassment.
Streetwise shows you the fastest and safest paths at the same time. The community can report incidents in real time, and each route gets a safety score from 1 to 10. You can trigger a fake call if you feel uncomfortable, and the app avoids risky areas on its own.
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Hey Hunters 👋
Living in Paris, I was shocked to learn that 8 out of 10 women here have experienced harassment in public spaces. In our street interviews, EVERY single woman we spoke to had a story about feeling unsafe walking home.
That's why we built Streetwise. because existing maps only care about speed, not safety.
We're early but live! Some features we'd love feedback on:
The safety algorithm: Routes scoring below 7/10 automatically reroute around danger zones.
Fake call feature: One tap triggers a realistic incoming call. To appear busy.
Incident reporting: Takes 10 seconds to report.
We especially want to hear from:
- Women who walk alone at night - what features would make you feel safer?
- Anyone who's tried similar apps - what did they miss?
- Developers - how can we better use community data?
The app is a web app (installable on any phone) and works only in Paris for now.
Try it at street-wise.app and let us know what would make you actually use this daily! 🙏
Does this works in other countries as well?
@dzaka_athif Hey!
Right now the safe-route algorithm is focused on Paris, because we need a strong base of local data to keep the scores reliable.
But you can report incidents anywhere in the world, and we’re already preparing the data pipelines to expand to more cities.
If you want your city next, tell us to decide where to roll out.
Swytchcode
Amazing. Does this app only work in Paris?
Swytchcode
@toukoum great. I hope it supports both Andorid and iOS
@erlend_mats_dugstad
Thanks a lot!
The score mixes community reports + public safety data.
Right now we use:
real-time incident reports from users
density and recency of harassment/pickpocket events
street lighting (open data)
distance to police stations
time of day
We keep it simple for now, but we’re adding more layers as we grow.
If you’re curious about a specific type of data, happy to explain.
Great idea, so needed. Love this in London. Let us know what we can do if not in Paris to help test it out.
Tiny Mario
Nice! I remember Strava a few years ago trying to do this, focusing on exercise. I'm not sure what happened to it.
Oasi
I live in Atlanta and this is a wonderful product that I think every city needs! With high crime rate in my own city I literally avoid going anywhere alone and don't attend live experiences even for professional networking events due to the issue of being afraid to travel alone. Thank you for sharing such a much-needed product for humanity!