Ok Away provides a location-sharing app that enables users to track the real-time whereabouts of family and friends, receive travel plan updates, and get alerts for safety concerns. The platform addresses the need for enhanced safety and connectivity for travelers by offering features like inactivity alerts and missing traveler notifications, ensuring timely responses in critical situations.
Funding
$250K raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Travelers and their families often struggle to stay connected and informed about each other's whereabouts, especially during solo trips or adventures in remote locations. Delays in communication and lack of real-time updates can cause anxiety and hinder timely responses in case of emergencies.
Solution
Ok Away is a mobile application designed to enhance safety and connectivity for travelers and their loved ones through location sharing, travel plan updates, and safety alerts. The app allows users to view the real-time location, travel history, and local time of connected individuals on a map. It also facilitates the sharing of travel itineraries, sending notifications upon arrival, departure, or failure to reach key destinations. In critical situations, Ok Away provides features like inactivity alerts and missing traveler notifications, leveraging a community network to aid in search efforts.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes solo travelers, international students, digital nomads, volunteers abroad, backpackers, outdoor enthusiasts, and their families seeking to maintain connections and ensure safety during travel.
Features
- Real-time location sharing with mapped views, address details, and local time display
- Travel itinerary creation and sharing with automated arrival and departure notifications
- Place alerts for receiving notifications when contacts arrive or leave specified locations
- Travel warnings based on the user's current location, follower locations, or itinerary destinations
- Inactivity alerts triggered after 14 hours of phone inactivity
- Low battery alerts for connected users
- Missing traveler alerts that notify the Ok Away community in the relevant area and share details on a community map
- Option to store and share travel insurance details and contacts for new travel companions