Android Builders Weblog: #WeArePlay | Meet the founders turning their passions into thriving companies

Posted by Robbie McLachlan, Developer Advertising

Our celebration of app and recreation companies continues with #WeArePlay tales from founders all over the world. Right now, we’re spotlighting the individuals who turned their passions into thriving companies – from a ardour for artwork and design from one recreation creator, to a ardour for saving the setting from an app maker.

Throughout a gaming developer competitors, Brian – alongside his spouse and three different individuals – constructed a difficult monster and bullet-dodging recreation known as No Humanity inside 48 hours, profitable first place within the competitors. From this, Brian based his gaming firm SweatyChair. No Humanity was improved and launched per week later and grew to over 9 million downloads. His ardour for know-how and artwork is how he champions a extra lively gaming expertise, the place gamers can create their very own components and play them within the recreation.

When Prachi travelled to Maharashtra, she noticed first-hand how the consequences of local weather change impacted the locals. Her ardour for safeguarding the setting led her to ask herself “What can I do about local weather change?”. She vowed to cut back her carbon footprint and went on to create Cool The Globe, an app that helps individuals observe day by day actions to decrease their emissions. Her dedication earned her the Younger Changemaker Award in India. Subsequent, she goals so as to add group dashboards for colleges and organizations to observe their collective local weather efforts.

Benoit is enthusiastic about offering nutritious meals for his youngsters, so he went on a mission to purchase more healthy meals for his household. While purchasing, he discovered label-reading tiring and wished for a device to examine components robotically. He shared his concept together with his brother François and shut buddy Julie. Collectively, the trio noticed an actual want to mix their passions for vitamin and know-how and spent a weekend hammering out their idea earlier than presenting the thought in a meals hackathon they went on to win. Their profitable undertaking laid the groundwork for his or her app Yuka, which scans product labels to disclose their components and well being influence.

When the loneliness of early motherhood hit after her first baby, Michelle sought group and solutions from on-line boards. When the boards didn’t present the secure house she was in search of, her ardour for constructing group alongside along with her 10 years of expertise in social networking impressed her to create Peanut. The app helps mothers to attach, make associates, and discover assist. With over 2.3 million downloads and a budding international group, the Peanut workforce lately revamped the primary feed for higher personalization and launched an ad-free choice.

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