Be My Eyes - Lend your eyes to the blind

This is one of the most impressive apps I've seen! Help blind people see through video chats. This is a great example of micro-volunteering and the power of apps to actually improve people's live in meaningful ways. Great work from the non-profit Be My Eyes in collaboration with the guys at Robocat apps (@flarup @williwu and team).

This got posted 11 months ago, when it was still in the pre-launch phase. Excellent to see them go through with this project :)

Thanks guys! We've been waiting for this day for a while - glad to see if finally spreading and seeing that 'helped' counter climb. <3

Thanks Kris, yes it's very easy. Most blind or sight impaired smartphone users use the build in accessibility voice over– which works remarkably well. They're guided through registration in just a few simple steps. It was an interesting challenge to design an app that worked well in these kinds of situations.

would love to see this for android as well

So many great comments here guys. It's been an overwhelming response. For those asking about the idea and inspiration, it is actually Hans Jørgen Wiberg who came up with it and pitched it to a Startup Weekend. Hans Jørgen is visually impaired himself and it's a beautiful story. A cool team has collaborated with him since then and a few months back we started talking about how Robocat could help out. We redesigned the prototype app, made the website and visual direction and consulted on the launch – but the heavy lifting and the long haulin' has been done by Hans Jørgen and core members of his team. This is their baby, we just helped birth it. As for those asking why we'd do something like this? We only get to work on so many projects through our careers and this just felt right to us. Thanks for all the comments guys – let me know if I can answer anything specific. <3

Thanks a lot for all your support and feedbacks! There're a few more ways you can help out. Be My Eyes is non-profit and the code is open source, so go contribute here https://github.com/bemyeyes Also, we need more localizations. Help out here https://crowdin.com/project/bemy...

I believe I've referenced my blog post on this topic before but I'm particularly interested in technology powered by people and its ability to inspire more empathy. Products like Kindly (cc @jordanwalker), Jelly (cc @biz @jazzychad), and recent hunt, Cloe[1], are good examples of this. @flarup - what's the backstory to Be My Eyes? Of all the things you could do, why build this? [1] Yesterday we recorded a podcast with @hildebrandchase, one of the founders of Cloe. We'll publish soon.

What a great idea and noble cause. @flarup great job. Is it easy for a blind person to sign up for this? Is it assumed someone will help them through registration?

The first PH I've teared up to. Beautiful stuff. Immediate download.