Make no bones about it, New Yorker’s love their dogs. You’d be hard pressed to walk a block without bumping into a Frenchie, Jack Russell or Labrador hotfooting it to the local doggy park. And it’s not just the pups that are loving their doggy park experience. Dog owners throughout NY are connecting with other owners and creating a community, meeting people, friends, lovers – all through the shared experience of letting their dogs run wild.
Hey Walkies is a website and iphone application designed to bring people and puppies together. While dog owners may know the whereabouts of dog parks in their own neighborhoods, as of yet there is not a resource for locating dog parks around the city. Hey Walkies helps owners find parks for their dogs to play in wherever they may be in NYC. Hey Walkies also taps into Facebook, bringing the world’s largest social network to the people and pups that use our site.
Hey Walkies was built for the NYC BigApps Competition. The City of New York is improving the way it provides information and transparency to citizens. But delivering great information requires great tools. The NYC BigApps Competition will reward the developers of the most useful, inventive, appealing, effective, and commercially viable applications for delivering information from the City of New York’s NYC.gov Data Mine to interested users.
A big Thank Woof to David Rouleau for drawing our mascot, to Camille Imbert for our awesome crazy Twitter icon, to Paul O’Donnell for the lovely paw and dog icons, and Glyphish for letting us use a few of their icons!
Just wanted to send along this info about an iPhone app we just launched for NYC-based dog owners. Basically, it’s an iPhone app that locates dog parks in the city. The app and its accompanying website are both tools to help bring people and their pups together using GPS technology, Social Media and more… Here’s the link to the site: http://www.heywalkies.com/
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