The Coop
About this project
In one sentence, what are you building?
The Coop is social media you can hear: a voice-first social app where blind and low-vision people listen to friends' audio journeys, hear real sourced news, and like, reply and get help just by talking.
What problem are you solving?
Social media is built for eyes. For people who are blind, have low vision, or lost their sight later in life, a photo feed means hearing "image" over and over and swiping through buttons one at a time just to see what friends are up to. Many older adults never learn a screen reader at all, so they simply drop out. The cost is isolation: they miss the everyday moments their friends and family share, they can't easily trust what they read online, and they're easy targets for scams they can't see. The Coop replaces the visual feed with friends' own voices describing where they went and how it felt, real news and help with sources said out loud, scam protection before anything is read aloud, and one simple way to use it all: just talk.