LetsProve tries to get Thailand out of the Web 1.0 era

Written on 17th January 2008                                                                                                              5 COMMENTS
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

Every week we publish an interview with a start-up. We ask five questions, hoping the answers will give you inspiration and new views. Well, actually six questions, since we also ask the start-up to who he or she is passing the mic.

This week, we’re interviewing Peerapong Pulpipatnan (Pete). He lives in Thailand and is actually some sort of pioneer there. He told us that there are hardly any Web 2.0 services in his country and that he would like to change that. So he started LetsProve Where. A service that makes it possible for people to give visual updates on where they are. Ok, I must admit, He’s not the first one who comes up with a service like that. Yet, I really like his vision and story, so that’s why I asked him the five start-up questions. You simply cannot ignore the people who try make a difference in their country.

How did you come up with the idea of LetsProve Where?

“I’ve watched many interesting movies such as Final Cut, Deja Vu and Minority Report. In each movie, they have tools to record every persons activity automatically. Everyone has their own travel- and activity log so that you can track basically anyone’s activity.

I was impressed by the idea of recording a persons life so I started thinking about how to do such a thing. Of course it wasn’t possible to record everything, since that would be a violation of privacy terms. I chose to work with the mobile phone, since everybody is always carrying that device around.

I thought it would be great if people were able to record their movements and activity with their mobile phone. Just imagine that you could tell everyone where you’re at by sending a text message or a picture and the system would automatically turn this data into maps with your locations on it. Also, it would update your blog (widget) and Facebook profile (Facebook app).” (more…)

five questions for start-ups, letsprove, mobile, thailand

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