A community.
We have put strong emphasis on the social aspect of this platform. It is as much about making connections, sharing your journey and being a part of something bigger than yourself than it is about getting form A to B. Features such as the “Caravan” and “Stories” are a visual representation of past journeys and connections made with other users. This integrates a social element into the user experience that existing platforms lack, with every journey you are building your profile, status and network within the Pilgrim community.
However with the platform itself not yet functional this had to begin somewhere else. We set up a closed Facebook group with friends and potential users who fall within our target demographic to whom we introduced the concept. This Closed help us hear popular opinions on features and ideas, build the community, and begin our pilgrimage. It is an opportunity for those we are designing for to be apart of the Pilgrim story, and to help create a platform that works for them.
Welcome to Pilgrim! If you're in this page you’re a part of ourvision, there are big things to come and this is just the beginning. Pilgrim is a platform for sharing rides and connecting like-minded people. Our story began with two mates, one car, and a passion for surfing. Living in and around the city, getting out there can be a mission. An idea was born out of our own need to travel long distances to beaches, mountains, and festivals and the hassle of organising carpools with groups of people. We decided to create a solution.Pilgrim gets you to the surf by connecting people with the same goal. Stuck at home with no ride, or just want to split the petrol costs and head out with some new mates - Pilgrim has you covered. While we are in the process of designing and building Pilgrim in the form of a mobile and web app, this group has been created to hear your opinion on features and ideas, build the community, and begin our own pilgrimage. This is an opportunity to be a part of the Pilgrim story, and help create a platform that works for you.
We also started a public Instagram in an effort to gain some traction and lay the foundations of a strong community united by a common interest.
@becomeapilgrim
To validate and prototype Pilgrims other potential applications that extend past surfing, we ran a small scale beach clean up with Sustainable Coastlines. The aim to get as many people to one location in as few cars as possible at as little cost for all of those involved through a sustainable means of transport. What we were hoping to show through this event is that there is a void that Pilgrim can filll. Communities of like minded people already exist and therefore our role is simple, to extend the scale and scope of the connections within these communities. We ran this at betels beach with the help of sustainable coastline
As the platform is as much bout making manful connections as it is about saving many and finding a ride we though a public image should be a representation of this. Throughout the past ten weeks we have been hitting benches both local and a far and steadily collecting and creating content for the purpose of rallying a community and active user base around a mutual passion. A few examples can be seen below.
