We all have things we want to do, places we want to go to, movies we want to watch, books we want to read. Soon arranges your want-to-do’s in beautiful lists, one for each category. The app pulls in additional information you’ll need about that item, whether it’s a movie’s plot, photos, poster, or the phone number and address for a location, and more. Its ‘City’ function allows users to plan trips with friends. If you’re looking for something to do, see what other users are adding to their lists. Free for iOS.
The app also offers a social element, allowing you to follow your friends on the service in order to see what they’re planning on seeing, reading or doing, for further inspiration. And in the case that you don’t have enough friends on Soon to make the social element compelling at first launch, a “trending” section will show the hottest items in your own neighborhood or city – a feature that could be useful when traveling, as well.
Ancher says he and his co-founder, Henrik Evrell, came up with the idea for Soon because they both felt that there isn’t a good way to track all the things you hear about on a daily basis that you want to try. “We started asking around and saw that the most common solution actually was the note app, which looked really messy,” he says.
Soon began as a passion project, as the two Stockholm-based founders currently work in the agency world. Ancher founded Most Studios, which is focused on digital design and communication for up-and-coming tech companies like Tinitell, Qapital and Flic. Henrik, meanwhile, is a co-founder of Seventy, a brand agency doing strategy, design, and film for bigger companies like H&M, Universal Music and OnePlus.
But now Ancher says the two of them, along with a couple of other developers who round out Soon’s team of four, will be focusing on Soon and moving away from agency work. They’ve even pulled in a small amount of angel funding – mostly a “friends and family”-type of round – in order to get Soon off the ground.
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