{"id":17856,"date":"2020-03-29T18:26:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T18:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/snapchats-zenly-launches-shelter-in-place-leaderboard.html"},"modified":"2020-03-29T18:26:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T18:26:03","slug":"snapchats-zenly-launches-shelter-in-place-leaderboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/snapchats-zenly-launches-shelter-in-place-leaderboard.html","title":{"rendered":"Snapchat\u2019s Zenly launches shelter-in-place leaderboard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Snapchat\u2019s location-sharing app acquisition Zenly <\/a> has gamified shelter-in-place during the COVID-19 outbreak. Today the app launched its Stay At Home challenge that shows a leaderboard of which friends have spent the most percentage of the last three days in their homes. Users can see who\u2019s social distancing the best and share stickers of the scoreboard and coronavirus prevention tips to Snapchat, Instagram and other apps.<\/p>\n

Location apps like Zenly<\/a> that typically encourage users to go out and explore the world suddenly lost most of their purpose due to the widespread order for people to self-quarantine. They even might have incentivized people to disobey those orders. But by building a game around isolation, Zenly could make it cool to show off how you\u2019re NOT grabbing coffee, visiting friends or taking a walk down Main Street.<\/p>\n

Zenly\u2019s CEO Antoine Martin announced<\/a> the feature this morning, and credited a tweet I posted<\/a> on March 15 calling for developers to build a gamified quarantine app as the inspiration. The quick work and rapid deployment was spearheaded by Danny Trinh<\/a>, the renowned designer<\/a> of Path who joined the company last year. TechCrunch broke the news back in June 2018 that Snapchat had acquired Zenly<\/a> for $213 million<\/a> plus retention bonuses.<\/p>\n

Beyond Zenly\u2019s version of \u201cPokemon No Go,\u201d the app is also offering tips for containing coronavirus and a link to World Health Organization info. You can also attach a surgical mask to your profile pic to let your friends know you\u2019re taking social distancing seriously.<\/p>\n

What could really make a difference in convincing people to do their part to fight this worldwide pandemic, though, is Zenly\u2019s coronavirus lens for its map that it released last week. It lets you look around the world and see the number of confirmed cases and recoveries in each country or state. Zenly updates the data<\/a> three times per day based on the The John Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering. The map also overlays info from the WHO, the Netherlands\u2019 BNO News, China\u2019s DXY and this crowdsourced GitHub<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve asked if there are any plans to launch similar features on Snap Map, which was inspired by Zenly. To date, Snapchat has mostly allowed its acquisition to operate independently from its existing headquarters in Paris. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDuring these tough times, millions of people are turning to Zenly as a source of information and connection, so that they can feel close to friends and family even when social distancing is keeping them apart,\u201d says Martin. \u201cWhile spending too much time at home could be perceived as uncool, we wanted to flip the narrative to make it something that our community would be proud of and do our part in stopping the spread.\u201d Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley told me<\/a> his company was looking for a way to build its own quarantine gamification, and now has complimented<\/a> Zenly on its execution, calling it \u201cclever and awesome and beautiful.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowing what\u2019s happening around the globe might reinforce the gravity of our situation and that people can\u2019t just go about their normal routine. We all have to battle this together, even if we\u2019re stuck apart. Thanks to Zenly, social distancing just got a lot more social.<\/span><\/p>\n

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