Students create app

It is not every day a couple of 15-year-old students develop their own smartphone app and attract serious investors, but Erin Cresswell and Daniel Joyce have done just that.

In the space of 18 weeks, Erin and Daniel took part in national program, Just Start IT, and developed an app.

Erin and Daniel had to develop either a product that would benefit the community in some way.

Their creation, 20 Apptive, was born from an idea Erin had after discussing sport with her younger sister.

“My sister and I both play softball, but lately she has been thinking about switching to play tennis,” she said. “My sister didn’t want to bring up the idea with our parents until she had discovered what options there were for her to play in our area.

“This made me think — what if there was a way to easily access information on sporting clubs and activities in any given location?”

Erin pitched the idea to her fellow students at Comet Bay College and, with project partner Daniel, used their feedback to create 20 Apptive.

“Our peers told us that they wanted to find activities within a 20-minute walking distance of their location,” Daniel said. The pair entered their idea in the Just Start IT competition and were then approached by a company who wanted to invest.

Bunbury-based Moshi Moshi Marketing was eager to get on board with 20 Apptive and is now developing a website and will help the pair get the app registered.

Read more about Erin and Daniel in the September edition of theSound Magazine .