Blinkoo is here, an innovative app for travel and food experiences that's simple and technologically advanced. It leverages Artificial Intelligence for unique content categorization and integrates with travel service providers.
A sort of fusion between the short duration of videos of TikTok, the entertainment of Instagram And YouTube and finally, the best information you can find on Tripadvisor or TheFork.
The blinkoo app
blinkoo It's an app that brings together influencers, professional content creators, and travelers to share places and experiences, whether close to home or on the other side of the world, through short, meticulously categorized videos, navigable through an innovative system never before implemented on any other app. blinkoo It enhances the functionality of traditional social networks and major review platforms to give users the tools to get inspired, plan a trip and book the desired activities by following the advice of those who have already had the experience and shared it in videos.
A new travel inspiration concept that goes beyond traditional tourism promotion standards. A combination in which the founders of the innovative startup, blinkoo (everything is written in lowercase), they believed from the very first moments: Short videos, professional influencers, stories of authentic experiences and little-known places, to create a vertical service that accompanies you in all phases of organizing a trip.
Blinkoo Technology
After a prototyping and user-testing phase, the MVP is now in the development phase. blinkoo, which will be released at the end of November 2021. In the making of the MVP blinkoo is developing several technological assets.
An extremely detailed database of:
- geolocalized experiences shown in the video
- activities, countries or geographical areas involved
- a complex network of categories to which videos are associated
- user preferences and their habits in using the platform
A set of artificial intelligences capable of:
- analyze user videos to categorize, find correlations between them
- automate part of the acquisition and review processes
- analyze user habits and preferences in order to propose content that they like best
A video-based, fully scalable technology that can be verticalized into other markets.
The core of the technological solution (backend) is developed using serverless computing, ensuring maximum scalability and cost efficiency. All technology is developed in-house to create a high barrier to entry for potential competitors and to minimize the replicability of the entire technological solution. R&D activities
blinkoo It is constantly working to improve its artificial intelligence, which helps correlate user-uploaded content; enables scalable acquisition and review processes; and creates a simple and satisfying user experience. It offers a vertically scrolling video feed that users can navigate, filter, and search based on a system of tags and categories.
- All videos are related to the world of travel and experiencesIn the videos, people share their experiences, travel tips, and information about hotels, restaurants, and activities, as well as streets, squares, churches, and places of worship, museums, parks, and beaches.
- All videos are meticulously catalogued and categorisedA manual and artificial intelligence system analyzes each video uploaded to blinkoo, to feed the product categorization and indexing system
- All videos are searchable and navigable in an innovative way. Browsing videos by tags and categories allows you to move through content based on your preferences, creating your own inspirational feed, and searching for content based on locations and categories.
The market in which it is placed blinkoo It is a platform that offers interesting and entertaining video content about travel and experiences, and positions itself as the only platform that combines thousands of authentic videos with a navigation and search system for hyper-categorized, useful, and searchable content. blinkoo currently collaborates with over 60 influencers and content creators with an exclusive contract with the platform for the production of videos and the promotion of the app among their followers. Influencers and content creators reach a potential audience of several million users on major social media such as Instagram, YouTube And TikTok, and collaborate with blinkoo to present the product to your followers.
To make videos navigable and searchable efficiently and effectively, blinkoo has developed an innovative content categorization technology. Each video posted on the platform is manually categorized beforehand and enriched with tags and categories by artificial intelligence systems. Thanks to this system, a user navigates by creating their own feed dynamically, choosing the type of videos that will compose it. Once they have found their favorite videos, users on blinkoo they will be able to save them in a personal folder, share them with friends and colleagues and use them for organize a personalized travel itinerary based on the experiences and stories of those who have done it before.
Where to download blinkoo
blinkoo is an app available for iOS and Android.
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.crushtravel.experientia
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/it/app/blinkoo/id1561370100
About Blinkoo
Founded in 2019 by Smeraldo Meminaj, blinkoo (previously Crush Travel) is an innovative startup involving a team of professionals, mentors, and investors. After an initial study phase, the creation of a prototype began, necessary to validate some hypotheses and assumptions regarding the product and the market in which it is inserted. The data and feedback collected determined the beginning of the development of a more structured MVP, subsequently released in July 2020. In parallel with the MVP, a backoffice system was also developed, a structure that allows blinkoo to manage all the content uploaded to the platform and to best structure all the analysis and review processes related to it. The beginning of 2021 marks an important moment for the development of the projectA new vision, coupled with a completely revamped brand, paves the way for the release of the iPhone and Android apps, available in beta in the stores since September. Over the course of two years, the team dedicated to the project has grown to include 25 people working on the development and promotion of the app.
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