Fider 2.0

Developed by Iban Duvivier at the Izarbel Technology Park, the Fider mobile app enables users to recommend and share useful contacts via the address book on their smartphone. A new version of the app is now available, with extra functionality.

“The Fider mobile app shares the user’s information on the services and performance of professional tradespeople to his or her network of contacts and collates useful addresses in a private, communal directory,” explains Iban Duvivier, who developed the app in the business incubator at the Izarbel Technology Park.

Useful addresses (garages, restaurants, domestic services, etc.) created or added via the app are saved by it in an address book for then sharing with the user’s contacts, who benefit from the latter’s advice and opinion. “Given the lack of trustworthy information on the internet, where, according to fraud experts, more than one in three consumer opinions are false, Fider offers a unique service,” Duvivier claims.

“Version 2 offers new functionality, such as sharing the contacts of friends of friends, which means a much larger network can be built. Another new feature is the request system, which allows users to circulate a requirement to the network and receive personal recommendations,” he explains. In addition, a newsfeed keeps users up to date on the latest recommendations from friends and their current hot favourites.

Free to download from the App Store and Google Play, the easy-to-use Fider app requires users to sign up and then register their contacts, specifying their own name or geographic location. Iban Duvivier is preparing to launch Spanish and English-language versions, as well as a service for tradespersons to be able to reward their clients for recommendations in the form of discount vouchers.

To find out more, visit: fider.co