Hey guys!
I would love to hear your thoughts on my new app, Spaces. Spaces lets you broadcast useful information to everyone in the room, in real time.
In meetups, education and public spaces, one-to-many distribution of content is still dominated by paper but the content that we distribute is increasingly digital - many links, files and photos. Also, it's impossible to change printed handouts in the moment. Spaces' objective is to solve this problem.
When building Spaces, I tried to keep things as simple as possible - all you need to view the content is to be in the same room with the app installed and bluetooth turned on (no GPS, no push, no need to open an account etc). There's a basic but easy to use editor and you can begin broadcasting with just one tap. To broadcast, Spaces uses a low energy bluetooth signal that has very little impact on your phone's battery. Additionally, Spaces also supports broadcasting with Estimote iBeacons. Any changes you do update for everyone in real time.
The real opportunity here I think is in wearables. It'll be super cool to be able to view site-specific live content on your wrist - agendas at events, menus at restaurants etc. I just finished working on the Spaces Apple Watch app and it should be available when the watch is released next month.
Looking forward to hearing from everyone.
tl;dr Spaces are a live, disposable, room-specific replacement for paper handouts.
Zenly