Locoround

Product Introduction

1. Locoround is a community-driven platform designed to facilitate hyperlocal communication through digital handbills, enabling users to share promotions, events, or thoughts with people in their immediate geographic area.
2. The core value of Locoround lies in its ability to foster authentic neighborhood connections by prioritizing real-time, location-specific interactions over algorithmically curated content, ensuring relevance and immediacy for users.

Main Features

1. Users can create location-based boards tied to specific geographic coordinates, allowing targeted sharing of handbills within defined neighborhoods or public spaces.
2. The platform supports real-time updates with geofencing technology, ensuring handbills appear instantly for nearby users and expire automatically when they leave the designated area.
3. Locoround integrates GPS and map-based interfaces to display handbills dynamically, enabling users to explore content within a customizable radius of their current location.

Problems Solved

1. Locoround addresses the lack of accessible, hyperlocal communication tools for sharing time-sensitive information like pop-up events or limited-time offers within specific neighborhoods.
2. The platform serves residents seeking localized updates, small businesses aiming to reach nearby customers, and community organizers promoting neighborhood-driven initiatives.
3. Typical use cases include a café announcing a flash sale to nearby users, a resident sharing safety alerts about local infrastructure, or an artist promoting a street performance in real time.

Unique Advantages

1. Unlike social media platforms that prioritize viral content, Locoround restricts visibility to users physically present in designated areas, ensuring contextually relevant interactions.
2. The platform’s geofenced handbills use dynamic location triggers, automatically updating content visibility based on real-time user movement without manual refresh.
3. Locoround’s competitive edge stems from its community-first design, absence of algorithmic filtering, and low-barrier entry for users to create and consume hyperlocal content.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

1. How does Locoround determine which handbills to display?
   Handbills are displayed based on a user’s real-time GPS location and the geographic boundaries set by the creator, with content prioritized by proximity and timestamp.

2. Is my location data stored or shared when using Locoround?
   Location data is anonymized and used only to display relevant handbills; it is not stored long-term or shared with third parties beyond transient session-based geofencing.

3. Can businesses target multiple neighborhoods simultaneously with a single handbill?
   No—each handbill is tied to a single geographic board, but businesses can create separate handbills for different locations, each with unique geofencing parameters.

4. How quickly do handbills update when I move to a new area?
   Content refreshes in near real-time (1-3 second latency) using device GPS pinging, ensuring handbills adjust to your location within a walkable or drivable range.

5. What formats are supported for handbill creation?
   Users can create text-based posts with optional images, hashtags for categorization, and time/date stamps for event-based handbills, all within a 300-character limit.