Patook vs Rif App

Beacon-based Friend Making and Community App

Patook is about meeting the people who are near you and who share similar interests, as well as connecting local communities together.

It is based around the concept of beacons. Users create beacons and everyone within those beacons can interact with everyone else. Beacons can be as wide as cities (e.g. the Seattle beacon) or as narrow as a small library. Discussions posted on beacons can be upvoted and the most popular discussions are shown higher.

Patook is foremost a friendship making service and nearly all interactions within the site are tailored towards making users get to know the people around them better while remaining safe. This includes a powerful point system which allows users to assign points to other user traits (for example, if they play the piano or like to ski).

Relate to other people and sitatuations through reaction gif statuses

Rif is a mobile application allowing users to browse reaction gifs or showcase their creativity and humor by posting their own reaction gif status. Gifs have been around for awhile, but we set out to build a community for people who identify with the emotions they evoke. What better way to react to a comment, question, situation, etc. than using a visual from a famous movie or TV show. Our users create Rifs by posting a caption or status similar to that of Twitter; however, they must attach a gif acting as the punch line.