TubeChat, an app to communicate on the subway without disturbing.
Hush, you're on the **London Tube**. Whether you're new to the city, a visitor, or a true Londoner, you'll know (and be proud) that silence is highly valued when you take a train into the city.
Moreover, if you raise your voice, you will surely receive a murderous look that will discourage you from trying to continue speaking. If there is something that defines the character of Londoners, it is their easy to be quiet on public transportation and move to the right side on escalators.
However, with the appearance of mobile phones in London -and all over the world- public transport has become another form of isolation, where nobody looks at anyone and nobody talks to anyone. This is the raison d'être of TubeChat, the app created to break the ice inside the subway.
"One day I was on the subway and I realized that people were locked in their phones, lost in their own world. Technology has isolated us. I wanted to change that, I wanted to use technology to connect people and bring them closer together," says 26-year-old TubeChat founder Nina Tumanishvili.
TubeChat works without internet.
CHAT WITHOUT INTERNET CONNECTION
What exactly TubeChat? The first difference that it presents with other applications is that you can use it without internet, that is, you can create your own profile, chat in groups of up to six people and do it anonymously.
You can also disconnect without leaving a trace. In this sense, they guarantee, thanks to a moderation system, keep conversations safe.
You can chat anonymously.
London Underground passengers can chat, play games and even flirt in stations and tunnels where there is no mobile signal or WiFi , doing it within a radius of 30 meters using Bluetooth wireless technologies. The creators of TubeChat know that millennial they can't live without being connected, that's why This app is an alternative for when social networks do not work.
The most interesting part is the possibility of communicating in places where there is no connectivity or it is problematic, such as in the event of a terrorist attack or disaster zone. "TubeChat was designed with the London Underground in mind, but our technology works everywhere, even in a coffee shop, at a conference or during a festival," the founder tells Traveler.es.