Why wouldn’t a community have their own app?!
Tony O’Regan is the founder of the Wānaka App - locals’ trusted first digital port-of-call when it comes to regional news and events, and New Zealand’s first hyperlocal community news app.Nine years after he and wife Pip launched the App using a shared phone and a white-label platform built for restaurants and schools, software development has been inhoused, and now handles around 150,000 interactions a month.
But before any of that, there was a kid enjoying an old-school upbringing in a big family on a West Coast farm, with parents who simply saw council meetings, committee work and other…
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