“Ok, but send me a message when you get there”

First of all security. This would be one of the mottos that we would all sign if we were asked, in general, what we value most. Feeling safe and protected is a desire for many people and even more so if, at some point, they take certain risks. Thinking precisely about this, the App was born Kiterstring.

This application is nothing more than an alert service; a tool that will notify our contacts in case something serious happens to us. As its creator says, an App that replaces the inevitable "make me a missed call" or "send me a message" WhatsApp “upon arrival” is what we all say every time someone says goodbye and has to face a journey that may not be entirely safe or may be subject to unforeseen events.

Developed by a student of the MIT This application acts as a worried mother or friend. After registering and choosing the contacts to be notified in case of emergency, the application requires programming a timer on which the operation of the application will be based. Kiterstring. After the time that has been programmed, the application sends a SMS to the user; if there is no answer, Kiterstring will assume that something has happened and will send emergency alerts to the user's contacts.

To increase the security and effectiveness of the system, the App has the option to encode the message that the user must respond to so that Kiterstring know that everything is going well. This means that you can configure the security response to be a code word to protect yourself against possible theft and identity theft. Also, if during the journey there is a perception that you are in danger, you can send a code to immediately alert your contacts.

Whether because the crime rates in large cities in the United States can be downright high or because of the great utility that has been found in this App, in just a few months of operation it has already accumulated 60,000 users, mostly from the US, Canada and the UK. “I originally designed it with college students in mind, but I've found that there are many more users: mountaineers, real estate agents, the online dating community and senior citizens,” said its creator, Stephan Boyer, in a report published by the newspaper The Country.

Anyway, if you are worried a lot, nothing is more reassuring than reading a message on your phone saying “I have arrived, everything is fine”, right?