» DCHistoricTours.com – what does the future hold?

After several weeks of hard planning, I’m sure that Peter Corbett of IStrategyLabs is glad to know that the Apps for Democracy was a huge success.  I’m glad that BOALT took home the agency 1st prize and was able to build an application that was going to help the community so much. So what’s next for DCHistoricTours.com?

After speaking with D.C.’s Chief Technology Officer, Vivek Kundra, last night, he told me that one of the reasons we were chosen was because they wanted to use our application on main D.C. inauguration website.  This would provide the many anticipated visitors this January a helpful resource to learn more about our nation’s capitol.  I thought that was pretty exciting so naturally I stayed up last night wondering what I could do to improve the app.

Well for starters, we rolled out a social feature last night that allows visitors to comment on other tours. This way users can interact with the person who created the tour and the community.

Next on the agenda, is to create an official inauguration route as per the request of Vivek Kundra.  If anybody would like to help out, please contact me.

And finally, on the not too far horizon, we are planning on developing a location-aware mobile version of the app. That way visitors can retrieve their tours while they are on the actually tour and be provided with useful facts based on their location.

BOALT has no intention on monetizes this app at the moment, and welcomes any volunteers.

Disclaimer: Should the costs to maintain the website exceed our threshold in the near future we might be forced to find a way to monetize the app through sponsors, etc but the application will always remain free to visitors.