ONE OF THE GREATEST WINS
IN SXSW HISTORY
It’s not often that a little app created in just 10 days gets mentioned alongside internet favorites like Twitter and Grumpy Cat. But that’s exactly what happened to Avoid Humans, a mobile site we developed for South by Southwest to help people avoid the insane crowds during the festival. Avoid Humans reverses check-in data from Foursquare and Instagram and shows you the nearest places with the fewest people. It quickly became the talk of the festival and made national headlines. But even more impressive, when visitors left Austin after the festival, they continued using our app in their home cities. With literally zero promotion, Avoid Humans is now used across the country, generating tens of thousands of unique visitors each month.
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The most important app for SXSW“...the mass of people who inhabit every inch of space in downtown Austin...can all be enough to send any agreeable attendee screaming into a glass case of emotion. Enter the web app Avoid Humans, ‘your temporary respite from the SXSW masses.’”
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SXSW Mobbed? Avoid Humans can help.“Is South by Southwest too mobbed? There’s hope for those of you would-be isolationists.”
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GSD&M’s Brilliant App for People Trying to Avoid SXSW Crowds“...already started moaning about the descent of more than 100,000 technophiles, film snobs and music scenesters who will surely overrun every one of your favorite hangouts? ...find out what places are mobbed and which ones are relatively crowd-free.”
