helpus - instant help in town app for iPhone and iPad

Our Neighbors for Now:
There are so many different people in our towns. We have different knowledge and backgrounds. Thus, some people might have difficulty to just search something they don’t know on the Internet, which can be very easy task for someone else. Based on what you type in the search bar, you might not be able to find what you really need.

Help it Forward Movement in Our Towns:
There is an organization called Kindspring where they try to change our world with small good acts. They are doing Pay it Forward movement which is literally paying food or beverage fee for the person who comes next.
Extending concept of this is Help it Forward movement. Simply it is that if you get helped, you help another. Then, the more helping acts are created, the stronger a virtuous cycle of helping becomes.

There can be so many cases to help or to get helped in our daily life by off-line as well as by on-line.
It is possible because of neighborhoods.
To name a few, the followings are what we can help and get helped:
- Telling the content of photo (for the elders, and kids)
- Sharing tools like screw driver
- Translating technical documents
- Searching a term on the Internet
- Helping to install/setup apps and gadgets
- Helping to assemble PCs
- Anything that can be helped

You can help your neighbors with your skills. Finally, you will get helped when you need it. You can change your town by simply participating in this virtuous cycle.

How to Use the App:
It is very simple. Like a Uber taxi app, you send a help-wanted message, then you are connected to anyone wants to help first.
You can attach photos to explain your situation more clearly.

[client] Type what you need to be helped and press the Help button
[client] Now you wait for a helper or you may cancel the request.
[helper] As a helper you will get a notification. If you open the notification, you decide to accept or to deny the request.
[helper] If you accept the request, you are connected to the client through 1 on 1 chatting.
[client, helper] Both client and helper discuss the details and decide how to help and get helped.

Functionalities
- Signing with phone number: increase the trust
- 1:1 chatting: You can get helped by the first person who accepts your request
- Location verification: it is done by a device location sensor.
- Neighbor users: You can look around your neighbor users with helping domain and history
- Supporting multiple languages: English and Korean are supported for now. Other languages are supposed to be added.
- Do Not Disturb Time: In app, you can set do not disturb time for your convenience.