New app will keep you away from 'sketchy' areas

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Almost every New Yorker has had that moment: finding oneself on a strange block in an unfamiliar neighborhood late in the evening and wondering, "am I in a bad situation?"

Well, now there's an app to answer that question.

SketchFactor, the brainchild of co-founders Allison McGuire and Daniel Herrington, is a Manhattan-based navigation app that crowdsources user experiences along with publicly available data to rate the relative "sketchiness" of certain areas in major cities. The app will launch on iTunes on Friday, capping off a big week for the startup, which was named as a finalist in NYC BigApps, a city-sponsored competition that promotes technologies designed to improve quality of life issues in New York City and government transparency.

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20140807/TECHNOLOGY/140809904/new-app-will-keep-you-away-from-sketchy-areas

[GandD 5,966]

I wonder if the user has to put in their race in the app.

[Teddy B 17,252]

I wonder if the user has to put in their race in the app.

Only took 8 minutes.

And go!!!!

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

No, New York is all rainbows and puppies now. All the streets were turned into parks.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Only took 8 minutes.

And go!!!!

My thoughts exactly. One post in an we're already talking about race again.

[Hei Guizi 21]

I think the app is a good idea. I wouls want to stay away from these dangerous areas if I was traveling in an unfamiliar area.

These are mostly areas of Democrat voters most likely. I'm not sure if Democrat is a race, but it might be.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Well, my husband always points out these parks to me. Then I have to tell him, "No, that's the projects."

Edited August 8, 2014 by Harpa Timsah

[Hei Guizi 21]

Well, my husband always points out these parks to me. Then I have to tell him, "that's the projects."

Do you walk alone at night Harpa ?

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Do you walk alone at night Harpa ?

Yes, but not in a streetwalkery way.

Less now that I am married.

I have had my fair share of come home when the sun rises nights.

[Hei Guizi 21]

Yes, but not in a streetwalkery way.

Less now that I am married.

I have had my fair share of come home when the sun rises nights.

Your scaring me Harpa. You need the app.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Your scaring me Harpa. You need the app.

I don't have a smartphone, though. Guess I will just have to rely on my own brain and my powers of observation. It's gotten me this far.

[Hei Guizi 21]

I don't have a smartphone, though. Guess I will just have to rely on my own brain and my powers of observation. It's gotten me this far.

Well now you have a CC. Your husband.

[GandD 5,966]

I don't have a smartphone, though. Guess I will just have to rely on my own brain and my powers of observation. It's gotten me this far.

Get one oldie!

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Get one oldie!

Why should I? What about not having a smartphone makes me old? I do believe we are the same age.

[GandD 5,966]

Why should I? What about not having a smartphone makes me old? I do believe we are the same age.

So you can have fun on the inter webs when away from the clunky old desktop or laptop. Like I'm doing right now. I think it makes someone sound ol because it's always old people that say that.