RadarQR For Real-World Dating with Less Creeps

Swiping has trained us to judge people like trading cards, then wonder why dating feels hollow. Brad sits down with Amberlei Ann Oates, the Founder and CEO of RadarQR, to talk about a bold alternative: build connection where chemistry actually lives, face to face, in public, with better tools to break the ice.

Amberlei shares how being single in San Francisco pushed her to “flip the script” on modern online dating. Instead of spending hours swiping just to earn a first meeting, RadarQR helps you meet in the real world first and use a QR code profile to bridge the awkward moment safely. We get into why rejection fear holds so many people back, why men often feel frozen about approaching, and how authenticity shows up in the details a photo cannot capture like voice, humor, kindness, and the way you treat others.

We also dig into how the app works: QR cards you can hand out, profiles with photos and videos, and a hotspot map where you can choose to check in and see who else is open to meeting people nearby. That opt-in visibility matters, because Amber brings a military intelligence lens to privacy and safety, explaining why sharing phone numbers or social accounts can expose far more personal information than most people realize. The conversation expands beyond dating into friendships, community, and networking at conferences, plus how local hotspots can benefit from real foot traffic instead of more screen time.

If you want a dating app alternative that prioritizes real-world connection, safer social discovery, and mental health, you’ll want to hear this. Subscribe, share this with a friend who’s tired of swiping, and leave a review with your take: should meeting in person be the default again?

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:30

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SPEAKER_00 0:35

This is gonna be a good one, Hugo. The Brad Wiseman Show. Real people, real life, and everything in between. So what do your kids think of this?

SPEAKER_02 0:44

Oh, they have storm terrorists.

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In order to be unstoppable, you simply don't give up. You get knocked down, you get back up again. Where curiosity opens the door to genuine connection. Men really struggle with their emotions. They really struggle with even understanding what's going on. Unfiltered conversations with the people shaping our world. What kind of show is this? And there's red quilted leather all over the walls. There's a swing hanging from the ceiling. I don't sweat you. And now your host, Brad Wiseman. All right. We got a hot topic here.

SPEAKER_02 1:21

Ah! Yeah, it's a hot one. I like hot topics.

The Problem With Swiping Culture

SPEAKER_01 1:24

It's gonna be hot. Yeah, this is gonna be different. I mean, we are usually, you know, into like the mindset and all that kind of stuff, the real serious stuff, you know? And not that this isn't serious. This is like for somebody looking for a relationship or looking to just get out and be in public a little bit and make friends, hopefully find love. That's another thing. Yeah, this is gonna be a love show. We all need love. We all need love. That's right. We definitely do. But that's what this is about. I mean, there's a lot of apps out there that try to connect people, you know, they try to bring them together, whether it be for you know, finding love or, you know, or just wanting to be with somebody for uh the night or something like that, whatever. But you know, it's it's uh there's a lot out there. This one caught my eye. Wow. This one caught now. I'm just you know, telling you right now, just in case my wife is gonna ask, I am not looking for dating apps. I was just this, I stumbled upon this. It's a different concept, it's a different concept than I thought. If I was dating, this is the concept I would take. But I'm not, and that's the good thing because you know you got me hooked. Let's I'll go home. My myself will be out of the lawn, is what's gonna happen. So all right, so let's bring her on. This is Amber Lee Oates, and she is the CEO of Radar QR, the founder and CEO of Radar QR. How are you doing, Amber Lee? We had a conversation not too long ago, and I'm glad you're back here again.

SPEAKER_03 2:44

Yeah, no, I'm great. Thank you so much for having me on your show today. I'm really excited to unpack everything with everybody.

SPEAKER_01 2:50

Yes, yes. So are so are we. I almost got in trouble in that intro, you know. I was trying to try to figure out how to say this and you know, if I'm gonna get myself in trouble, but no. I I think what what's really cool about this, and and you and I had this conversation, and then we'll we'll get into how you came up with this, but we had this conversation a little bit on over uh Zoom, in that I'm writing a book about relationships, you know, which is kind of interesting, and connections and all those kind of things. And it's called the Human Advantage. And you have come up with an app for dating that I think is very much in the same realm as what what I'm trying to get across for just relationships and and and building trust and things like that. Tell us about your app, because I I think it's really, really a unique way of finding somebody.

SPEAKER_03 3:37

Well, I mean, I really I was single, I was living in San Francisco, and I realized, you know, swiping. I was like, I'm spending so much time swiping to get face to face with somebody to see if there's a connection. I was like, no, we're doing it all wrong. I need to flip the script and I need to be in the room and then decide if I want to make that connection. But I needed to be rejection free because I know I know there are people like me, like there were so many reasons, like I kind of had to dig internally, like why I wasn't, you know, why didn't I approach guys? Right. And why don't guys approach me? I sat there and thought about it for a long time and I thought, like, you think they're in a relationship. If they want to, they will, you know, X, Y, Z. And if they're with a group of people, forget it. It's intimidating. So there's all these different factors that kind of came into it. And I was like, how do we just do this smarter and safer and actually make it fun again and read the room, read the crowd, right? Like, if you had a superpower, what would it be? Uh I can't be invisible, but maybe I can read the room. So that was kind of where I broke it down.

SPEAKER_01 4:37

Yeah, and and and and that, and you're right, you're right about that. And I think, you know, I think a lot of times guys are actually the more shy in those situations than girls. They really are. I'm that's just my experience at 54 years old. Girls tend to be a little bit more outwardgoing when it comes to the dating scene than guys. I think guys are really afraid of rejection. And I think they they feel that, oh, who would who's gonna want me? You know, or that who's gonna want to be with me or whatever, you know, that kind of a thing. So do you find that to be true or no?

SPEAKER_03 5:06

I think that could be true. Like, I mean, once I'm in a relationship with somebody, you know, I've asked them like, would you have approached me if you met me here or there? You know, how I met them or where. And a lot of guys have said, no, you're intimidating. Like, I wouldn't approach you. And even with, you know, this concept of our platform, you know, we're giving people different ways to connect in the real world. And if you look on our social media, a lot of the comments are from the girls and the guys, though. The guys are like, I would be so flattered if somebody did this because I don't feel comfortable. You know, like they're the Me Too movement, all these things like that really put men, you know, gave them a pause to approaching women. So I'm glad that we can give them a tool to bridge that real world and the virtual, you know, yeah. Give them a space, a wingman.

SPEAKER_01 5:57

No, and and I think that's important. I think that does this gives them a safe place, if you want to call it that, to kind of just, you know, be able to make to approach somebody without having to go through the disappointment or the rejection or all those things. Because, you know, that's the part that's tough. It really is. It's hard, you know, guys tend to to you know take that pretty tough. I mean, girls do too. I'm just saying that I think I think sometimes guy that women think look at us or or whatever, say, oh, they're tough. They can take this, it doesn't really matter. You know, they're feel they don't have feelings, you know, when they're and when reality is we do, you know, we absolutely do.

SPEAKER_03 6:33

The thing is we've never changed, and that's something that I find so funny. Like I have a daughter, I have a daughter who's 11, and I remember being her age and just having all those like flirty feelings and everything. I'm like, we never get rid of those. We just get older, we get taller, we have bigger bank accounts, but we are literally still the 11-year-old getting our first crushes every time we see someone we're attracted to. So it's like we just need better tools.

SPEAKER_01 6:55

That's a good point. Very good point. You know, and and I think we talked about this a little bit on the Zoom. For one, also, I want to let people know that you are a mom. Of course, you just mentioned you have an 11-year-old daughter, which is awesome. And you're also a military veteran, which I you know honor you for that completely. It's just great people that uh are brave enough and give up who they are to protect us, and so we can have the things we do, like a podcast and things like that, and the freedom to say whatever the hell I want on a podcast, which is great. And that's it's awesome. And I appreciate that. And I want to say thank you for your service.

SPEAKER_03 7:28

Uh it's very thank you so much.

SPEAKER_01 7:30

You're very welcome. So now we talked to us in the before too, and I said, you know, there's there's there's always a time you have an idea, you know, you're like, oh man, it just the world needs this. The world needs it. And there's that idea, and then there's the person that actually steps out and does something about it. You had the idea, you saw the need, you were dealing with this on your own situation because of being a single mom, and you decided, damn it, I'm gonna do something about it. How in the world did you get the the the bravery to do it?

SPEAKER_03 8:05

I think it's just like pure stubbornness, if I'm honest. Right, right. Um, I think I told you too in our like pre-discussion, it's one of those things like you have to be so pissed off that you're like, hold my beer, I'll do it. Like if no one else is gonna do it, I'll do it. And like I said, we started this in San Francisco, and I at first it was just for me, you know. Like I connected like a URL to a QR code and was handing that out, and then like it pulled up a profile. And everyone that I gave it to, it was like, Can you make me a profile? Can you make me one? Can you make me one? This is great. I need one, like, and I was like, wow, ah, I guess I'll just make it a thing. So that's kind of yeah, I don't know. Sometimes you just you see something that doesn't exist and you want it and you do it.

SPEAKER_01 8:49

And how long you've been doing this now?

SPEAKER_03 8:51

Figure out a lot of things. Like, I I don't come from a tech background, like I told you. Yes, I do come from an intelligence background. And I thought if we apply geospatial intelligence to a real world space or an actual real-time connection, I was like, how cool could that be? Let's see if that's possible.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

Yeah, and I think sometimes it's better not to come from a background. Let's just say it this way when you come from a background that's different than what you're kind of getting into to a space that you're not really used to, you don't understand the barriers then. You don't care about the barriers. Well, unless we put this way, you don't know the barriers. You know what I'm saying? So sometimes it's better to go into something completely naive because the tech people are gonna go, you can't do that. But if you if but if you've already said it, now they need to figure it the heck out. Okay. But if you're a tech person, you're gonna go in your mind, I can't do that, and you'll never try. So I think there's a lot to be said about that.

SPEAKER_03 10:08

Yeah, I wish I met you years ago. You know, I was literally unpacking things. I remember in the very beginning, I think I went on Upworks and I found my developers, but I talked to maybe 10 to 20 different developers, and I was like, here's what I'm thinking. And all of them were like, No, no, no. And then I met this one guy and he's like, We can do that thing. And I was like, Okay. So anytime I I bring him an idea and he's like, Let me sit on it, and then I'll be like, Yep, we can do that thing, and then I'll figure it out and then find it for me.

Building Radar QR From Scratch

SPEAKER_01 10:42

See, that's that to me is awesome that you you you found that person that that didn't believe in barriers, didn't believe in the no. But that's like anything in life. There's so many times you're gonna hear no's. It it's all that is is just one step closer to the yes, and that's the way it is in everything in life. And I think it's awesome that you're doing it because I was looking, I was doing a lot of studying again today before you came, we before we started recording. And you know, I just need to see all the things you're doing in here and and what and all that it's that it's that's being that's involved in it, you know, and this is down further on my notes here, but I want to go into this because I think it's really cool. The college ambassador program. Let's talk about that, how you're bringing, you know, college kids into this whole thing, and then we'll get into the nitty-gritty of how the actual app works. Okay, but but talk, let's talk about the ambassador program because I thought that was cool that you're bringing younger people into this to try and get them to be involved.

SPEAKER_03 11:35

Well, the really like interesting thing is Gen Z are rejecting dating apps, and I love it. I'm here for it because I rejected dating apps, right? And that's why, too, like sometimes people they'll try to put us in a box. They're like, Well, what are you guys? And I'm like, Well, we're connections platform for the real world, you know? And they're like, like a dating app. And you're like, No, no, no, no, no. Because when you say that, people think of the swiping. And Gen Z, they get it, you know, they're bringing back, like they're using their little film cameras and all the things that are nostalgia, you know, our nostalgia, they're bringing back, which I love. So getting them into the spirit of being ambassadors and understanding like this is for you guys to have like the young dating life that we had, you know, because I feel like dating apps really took a toll on all of our mental health. And I think they're all realizing that too, which is why the dating industry is going in such a different direction right now. So, yeah, having them as ambassadors and understanding is, you know, it's helping bring in the younger crowd, the people that are gonna stick with us and grow with us. But we made this for them because we want better for them. Like I tell my daughter all the time, I'm like, I don't want you meeting strangers from the internet.

SPEAKER_02 12:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:47

Like I, you know, when the internet came out and our parents were like, don't meet strangers on the internet. Well, lo and behold, we all did it. Except for you, because you met your wonderful wife a long time ago. Yes, exactly right. And you know, there are a lot of like documentaries and stories of real true crime that happened from those situations, but people act 1000% different in the real world when you meet somebody, right? You're on your best behavior, you're held accountable in a public space. So that's really what we're doing is giving a safe space in the public for people to connect at, you know, it's funny, like it's at our hotspots, right? And a hot spot could be a festival or a bar, your favorite restaurant, or a conference or something, but people act very different face to face, and you get a vibe, a genuine feeling for somebody. So that's what our ambassadors believe and know and understand is that authenticity and connections, it just it trumps everything else, you know.

SPEAKER_01 13:47

So face to face, there's honesty involved.

SPEAKER_03 13:50

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 13:53

Yeah, yeah, exactly. And you feel it. So you you can got your creep radar goes on, which is not radar, not your kind of radar we're talking about, but but that is a radar of a sort. But you know, seriously, you feel that. If I go, if you're saying if you go to you go to a bar or bookstore or live, whatever it is, and you start talking to somebody, it's a lot different than than meeting somebody online and and not ever meeting them in person. It's a completely different thing.

SPEAKER_03 14:18

And you know what I really love for the guys? Like, I tell guys all the time, I'm like, you guys make the worst profiles online. Like guys just don't, they don't want to take pictures, they don't want to make profiles, they're just like, I'm doing it because I have to, right? Right. But and girls will swipe left on them nonstop on a nap, right? But in the real world, they would have picked you based on your personality. They would have picked you based on the way that you're interacting with your friends, your laughter, your everything, right? So the charisma that people and the confidence that we give off in the real world does not show through in pictures. So all of us are getting swiped up left and right, you know, but we are missing so many real opportunities, and we have to get face to face together.

SPEAKER_01 15:02

Yeah, it's just for an instance, uh, real proof on that. I could just tell you, but I asked my wife, and this is right after we were together for for a little bit, and and I said, you know, were you attracted? Because I was attracted to her right away. Thought she's cute, she's very attractive. And I was like, Oh, you're cute. I always thought you were cute, all these things, right? So I said, you know, what'd you think of me? I'm all excited to hear what she thought, right? She goes, Well, she goes, You're kind of an acquired taste. And I'm like, and I go, Okay, you know what? So is fine wine, so I'm okay with that, you know. But that was what she said. She's gonna kill me now that I'm sharing this, but but no, it's just funny because I I remember I always say that to her now. So remember, I'm the acquired taste, right? You do not remember that. But that's but that's but that's from hanging out with other people that we hung out as friends together, you know, and and it's it wasn't a thing where she's like, I want to meet that guy. I mean, she just we started hanging out more and more, and it just became acquired taste.

SPEAKER_02 15:58

So it's kind of funny.

SPEAKER_01 15:59

But that's what you're saying about meeting people, it's totally different. Seeing you interact with your friends or seeing you interact with other people, seeing how kind you are, seeing how you act to the waitress or the or the bartender or whatever. That that to me, those are the things that people sit there and go, this person's cool. This is this is good.

SPEAKER_03 16:16

You know, it's funny. I realized too when I was single, the like some of the main things I like looked for, you couldn't tell in a photo. You know, it was like, you know, how do they walk? How do they voice? What is their voice like, you know, like different things like that? And you just can't tell those things. And then the thing too, when you're face to face, like say you're just at a bar or a festival or whatever, you don't always have the confidence to say hi or to make that approach, you know, and or the opportunity. So that's kind of what we're hoping to achieve is giving that real world confidence to ease mental anxieties, you know. So there's like a whole mental health aspect that goes with it too.

SPEAKER_01 16:56

Yeah. All right. So let's really dig into this app. Hugo, you want to know how this works, right? Yeah. Not for yourself. I'm just saying for you know, yeah, for other people. So let's so I get the app. How does it work? Like I put I build my profile, right? I'm putting my picture in, uh, you know, what I like, what I don't. Is it that kind of stuff I'm putting in there?

SPEAKER_03 17:14

It's very basic at first. So there are two ways you can come across us, right? Like if you see someone in the wild and you scan their QR code, because you know, we've got these little cards and things.

SPEAKER_01 17:24

Like I love the little cards.

SPEAKER_03 17:26

And they're really, they're all really different. Like, excuse me, you look like you like me, is this one? You turn it over, it's got a QR code on the back. And they can all say different things. I think I have like hundreds of things. This is my real world swipe, right? You know, and on the back, when somebody scans it, it goes to your profile that you've made. Your profile can hold up to 15 photos or videos, you know, mixture.

SPEAKER_01 17:48

So there are videos in there too. See, that's important too, because that's where you get the voice, you get the personality, you get maybe some humor involved in those profile the videos. That's awesome. That's cool. That is cool. So keep going.

SPEAKER_03 18:02

The more you add the better, the more you add, the better. I hate when I like I see one photo that means they just started their profile, but they didn't finish it. Um because it builds out like an Instagram style grid. So you really get to put your best foot forward in the real world. And so when you make your profile, beef it up, put lots of photos and stuff. You can share it virtually, you can airdrop your photo or your profile. Awesome. And you can every profile comes with a QR code and you can put it on these little cards. You can put it on a shirt, you can put it on a car decal, you can put it anywhere you want to make those connections. I got a connection to traffic one time, and I just thought it was hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 18:40

So wait, so they knew you were there, or they you showed up, or how does that work?

SPEAKER_03 18:44

I was in traffic and I had a a decal on the back of my car with my QR code on it.

SPEAKER_01 18:50

Love it. That's great.

SPEAKER_03 18:51

You just you it's all about trying different things. Like my dog.

SPEAKER_01 18:55

The dog one, I saw the dog thing on your on your website. It says, it says, was it my mom's single or something like that? Or that is cool. I love it.

SPEAKER_03 19:03

Yeah, we get attacked when we go to breweries with this. Everybody loves it, so it's really funny. And sometimes it's just, you know, wherever you are, you can make something, you can make your own thing, get creative. And we I really encourage people to just be spontaneous and come up with their own swag, their own gear for it. So that's one way, you know, is the QR element, which I love. That's one way. Yeah, the other way is the hotspot element, and that is a lot of fun because it will show you on a map where your local hotspots are. They could be coffee shops, it could be grocery stores, they could be concerts happening, different kinds of things. We're rolling out nationwide right now. So Houston was our launch city. We've got about 20 other cities open right now. So just people like make your profiles now is kind of the point, and then keep watching the map and waiting for your city to open because when it opens, it opens quick.

SPEAKER_01 19:56

So the city, so when you say city, does that mean certain locations within the city, or is it the city as a whole, or is it restaurants and pubs and bookstores like within the city? Is that what that means? Like it's available for that city, yeah, available for that city.

SPEAKER_03 20:10

Um, so like Houston has I want to say 38 or 42 hotspots right now.

SPEAKER_02 20:16

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 20:16

So yeah, and they're spread out all over the town to give you different areas, you know, that you can be in.

SPEAKER_02 20:22

Very cool.

SPEAKER_03 20:23

Um, also, too. So we use it, everybody who so anytime you share your profile, like your QR code, or you meet someone at a hotspot, you're meeting them in real life. So every like that you get in the app, it's not sorted like a normal app. It sorts who liked you in the real world versus who liked you online. So that's really different. And then in the connections, it sorts who likes you in the real world and who liked everybody else, and you can favorite them as well. When you're at hot spots, you can upload photos and you can tag your friends. When you do that, you're leading more traffic to your profiles from this hot spot.

SPEAKER_02 21:04

Right.

SPEAKER_03 21:04

So we did that kind of to bring back that nostalgic misconnections feeling. Because remember back in back in the day, people would put little ads in newspapers and they might even still do it. I'm not sure. Or priceless.

Why Gen Z Rejects Dating Apps

SPEAKER_01 21:15

Is there still newspapers?

SPEAKER_03 21:17

I don't know. Actually, I get some papers like delivered and I never read them.

SPEAKER_01 21:23

So I'm not sure. That's funny. So then if I go into a bar, there's a real quick, I'll go into a bar, not that I've ever been in a bar before, but you know, I go into a bar and and I want to know if there's anybody in there. I'm in Texas, I'm in Houston. I want to know if there's anybody in there that's single or is into having a drink with me right then and there. Yeah. Is that possible?

SPEAKER_03 21:44

Absolutely. So when you get to that hot spot, you get there, you just check in, and then you can see a list of you can see a list of everybody who's checked in right there.

SPEAKER_01 21:54

It's so cool.

SPEAKER_03 21:55

And you can view their profiles and you can start connecting that way. You're able to send one comment, one message without being matched. And it's a really great way to, especially in a crowded space, to be like, oh, I see them over there. Here's the profile. Amazing. I'm gonna go say hi. I know they like dogs or whatever it is. Like being on the means you've marked yourself approachable for the real world. You're like, hey, I'm out and I want to meet people.

SPEAKER_01 22:21

And yeah, so it's that's kind of you know what I love about that is it it allows people to know what the common bond could possibly be up front. Like I'm a dog person. If if I was in the dating scene and it said on their thing that they are big into snakes, like, nah, nah, I'm probably gonna pass on that. But but they say they're into Burney's mountain dogs, like like what we had. Before, I mean, you know, I'd I'd be like, I'd have to go just have a conversation about the dog. It wouldn't even be about dating. I'd be like, hey, I want to hear about your dog. You know what I mean? Because that's the way I am.

SPEAKER_03 23:00

Yeah. Well, I mean, it's it's more than dating, right? It's to make friends, yeah, relationships work, which is really cool. Like, we're building out the networking a lot more right now. So you could essentially go to a networking event and see who's an investor, who's looking for Series A, who's XYZ. Because I spent so much time at networking events too. And I thought, yeah, true. Man, I don't want to spend 30 minutes talking to another founder. You know, I want to meet founders, but I also need to talk to investors and get some nuggets of information of how to prepare myself.

SPEAKER_01 23:30

So very good.

SPEAKER_03 23:31

Reading the room smartly. And what this also does, Brad, is we're we're bringing business into safe walls. And that's kind of the point. You know, there we're another thing we're building out right now is that users can they can choose to be notified when they're in the vicinity of a hotspot and it'll say, Hey, you are a hundred feet from a hotspot. Do you want to go check in? And when you check in, you get to see what the specials are, you get to unlock different things. So the point is to bring business into all of these local places that we love because there's such a big turnover in the restaurant and the bar industry, too. And like even Starbucks right now, they're having a national problem getting people to come sit and stay. You know, people they want community, but it's not happening. So we're giving it away. Isn't that interesting?

SPEAKER_01 24:22

And it used to, I mean, Starbucks was known for that. I mean, you go in there and it was just people sitting around their laptop or whatever. But they used to, the thing about that though, the people that I see in Starbucks now are usually they're they're staying to themselves on a laptop. Whereas it used to be you go into a Starbucks and you'd see uh four friends here, three friends over there, and and whatever. You know, and as you're saying about this, it's something that I think would be really cool too is you know, we travel a lot for uh real estate conventions because of being an owner of Kellow Williams franchise. And, you know, it'd be nice if I'm not, if if maybe I got there early or whatever, or I'm staying out later than everybody else, or I don't want to hang with the whole crew to just put in there, hey, are there any realtors, you know, in in in around this area, or is there any realtors at the club of Mat or at the bar at the you know coffee shop? So then you can maybe strike up a conversation with people that are there for the same reason you're there for, which is the convention.

SPEAKER_03 25:15

Yeah, yeah. I mean, there's it's gonna it's gonna bend and shape in a lot of really fun ways for the networking. So it's awesome. I'm really excited about that. And two, we're you know, it's about there's another element of it too, like exclusivity slash privacy in the real world, if that makes sense. And that means like people don't always want to be in a swiping stack, you know what I mean? Like you don't want just the whole world to know where you are and everything. So in order to even be seen on a radar, you have to choose to check in. You can make your profiles private. There are different things to protect you know your personal information and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 25:52

So, yeah, so if I go in there, first time I go in or somebody sees sees a profile, is the person's phone number there right away?

SPEAKER_03 25:58

No, no, no. You'll you'll never see that.

SPEAKER_01 26:00

That's good. That's good.

SPEAKER_03 26:02

Yeah, so that's kind of too like when I was doing intelligence in the military, we had to learn a lot about cyber cyber and how I'm losing my mind right now. Cyber, but also counterintelligence. I'm trying to put the two things together.

SPEAKER_02 26:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:16

So, you know, cyber awareness, just protecting your personal information, you wouldn't give out your social security number.

SPEAKER_02 26:22

Nope.

SPEAKER_03 26:22

You don't give out your phone number. And a lot of people just aren't really smart. I will say smart, they're not educated on why you don't share your phone number. It used to be a thing like you either share your phone number or you meet someone on a dating app. Like those are or you share your social, your social media QR codes, right? But when you're sharing your social accounts, you're letting people know where you work, where you live, where your kids go to school, all this private information. When you share your phone number, people can Google it and get your address. So there's like so many reasons that we really have to lock things down and put it in a safe space. And like even your LinkedIn, it's like it seems so professional to share, but also people know where you work.

SPEAKER_02 27:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 27:05

So unless you work from home, you know, there's it's just it's very scary. So when you're thinking about intelligence, you have to think about counterintelligence. And when you're thinking about connections, you have to think about counter. You have to think how would a harmful person act, you know, how would they try to find information on me. So it just comes in different ways.

SPEAKER_01 27:26

You have to you have to go in into the creep's mind and and kind of figure out what would they want to get from this.

SPEAKER_03 27:31

That's exactly what counter means.

How QR Cards And Profiles Work

SPEAKER_01 27:32

Yeah, yeah. That's I always call it creep, you know. The word creep is just a good word. I mean, I know you don't use that in the military much. I'm pretty sure they don't use the word creep.

SPEAKER_02 27:42

Oh, we do. Oh, you do?

SPEAKER_01 27:43

Okay, good. See, look, look, I'm I'm I'm right there with them. Look at that, son of a bitch. So, no, let's go into a couple of things here and then we're gonna wrap it up. So the hotspots, how does how does somebody so when you open up a city, how many cities did you say you're gonna open up and how how fast is this gonna go? Because I would think this needs to scale pretty quickly in order for somebody to download the app and go to because we all travel a lot, especially people in business. We travel a lot, and I want to have the same experience here as I have in Texas or in Houston. So that has to scale quickly. That's probably gonna be one of your pain points.

SPEAKER_03 28:17

It's actually not because we're hot spots.

unknown 28:22

It's actually not.

SPEAKER_01 28:23

She just told me I'm wrong. So that's fine. Yeah, okay, go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 28:27

Yeah, we open honoraries all the time to kickstart different areas. So there are towns that some people have never heard of. So we'll you know do research and we will open an honorary and we let them know, like, hey, you guys are a hot spot, just so you know. Like, and yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:44

Oh, that's cool.

SPEAKER_03 28:45

Our rollout, our rollout, we have 25 major cities selected, and within those 25 cities, we'll do 10 to 15 honoraries.

SPEAKER_01 28:55

Oh, cool. Okay, so that's how you roll it out. You go into the honoraries and then and then that kind of gets the word started and it goes from there. Very cool. Very cool. Is there anything else? I mean, we talked, I one of the things you you told me is that, you know, it's not just dating, it's connecting. And and I also you had said about the industry of the dating app or the connecting app, you know, and it's not it's it's completely out of my realm. I think obviously, you know, I don't know if Tinder's even around anymore, but knowing that friends of mine used to talk about it. And you know, that I think kind of put a little bit of a dent in the the dating or relationship app because it got to be more about the physical world. I think more so, if I'm right, more so than the actual than more so than like meeting somebody and actually having a real relationship or really starting a friendship or whatever it is. It seemed like it was uh more of a physical thing. Is that am I am I on with that or no? I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 29:49

Well, you're on, you're on. I mean, right now, Match Group is under a major class action lawsuit just for their gamification process over profiles, you know, and swiping and just kind of the addiction that plays into it and the monetization that preys on people, right? So we're really hoping to flip that entire script. And, you know, you've seen lately too, yeah, we've got all of the started with the websites, went to the apps, and I think it all started in like '94, '95. But lately, within the last two to three years, you've got more clubs opening up, more groups and clubs, and it'll be like, you know, strangers meet for dinner, strangers meet for this, da da da. But there hasn't been anything yet for the real world, everywhere you go, autonomous style connection outside of us. So that's what we're we're hoping to be that niche space. Everyday people, every day. Everyday people. Everyday people everywhere.

SPEAKER_01 30:45

Yeah, everyday people.

SPEAKER_03 30:48

It's perfect for my schedule. That doesn't work for everyone, right?

SPEAKER_02 30:52

Right.

SPEAKER_03 30:53

And then too, I mean, we're meant to move around. We're meant to be all over the place. So you're gonna meet people all over the place.

SPEAKER_01 31:01

I love it. I love it. It's really cool. And then wasn't it? There was something else I was thinking of. Did you have a question, Hugh?

SPEAKER_00 31:06

No, no, I just thought I just think it's it's a really cool it's cool, right?

SPEAKER_01 31:09

It's a great, and why do you think when this came up? And I found it from from our guys, the Broglow guys. That's how I found you. I'm looking at it because you can't see it, but their their product is over here on the shelf. Someday when you come here, you'll have to bring something to put on the shelf when you're here in person. But yeah, so they that's how I found her. I saw I saw one of their things, or somehow I saw the connection because uh one of the guys was was with was talking to you, or you were interviewing him.

SPEAKER_03 31:36

We were just in Philadelphia doing uh let's talk about that quick. How did it go? We're auditioning and distracting. We haven't heard back, so I think that's bad.

SPEAKER_01 31:45

No, I don't think it's bad. I think it took them a long time. Yeah, if from what I remember, I mean, they were all three of them were in here in the studio, and I think it took them a while till they found out. Are you still in touch with them?

SPEAKER_03 31:57

I am, they're all so nice, too. They're the nicest guys. Anything you guys need, if you have any questions at all, please agree, agree. That that's such a like entrepreneurial spirit is pulling people up with you and right the right attitudes about it. So it's really nice.

SPEAKER_01 32:16

Entrepreneurs have really changed. Thank God the mantra or the the mindset. We'll go into mindset a little bit because we talk about it all the time on our show here. The mindset of an entrepreneur, a true entrepreneur, is about bringing other people up. It's not about jealousy or or competitiveness or all that stuff. It's about how can I, how can I help that person that was in the same situation I was in last week not have to go through what we went through and get there faster. You know, and I think that's it's a big part of what's cool about Shark Tank. They type they kind of bring those people together to help each other out. And I think I think it's just awesome. And I think what you're doing is awesome. I think it's a really, really good app. I think it's a great pro it's a great product if you want to look at it as a product. I think you're gonna do very well with it. I do think that very much so. And you know what's cool too is that you have a cool attitude. You have a cool way of presence that you you make people feel comfortable. Uh, I think if somebody that was doing this that was a prima donna and like, you know, you know, that kind of person, that wouldn't go as well for something like this. You're very humble, very grounded. And I think it's I think it's awesome. So I think you're doing a good job. Is there anything else you want to share? Because we're gonna wrap it up here. And I I also want to send people to your how do we get in touch with you? What's the best way to get in touch with you?

unknown 33:33

Sure.

SPEAKER_03 33:33

So radarqr.com is our website if you wanted to learn about us. We have a lot of different pages on there. You can see what we're about, even our how to join a hotspot network if you owned a company and you wanted to be on the map that has all of that information.

SPEAKER_02 33:49

Cool.

SPEAKER_03 33:49

And we're available in both app stores. We're worldwide right now. Well, take that back. We're nationwide.

SPEAKER_01 33:55

Nationwide. She's jumping ahead.

SPEAKER_03 33:58

I am. I'm always thinking about the future. But no, our entire our entire purpose is to make things real, fun, and safe again. And yeah, we're here for it. We we post a lot of TikToks and Instagram stuff, and we're slowly building all of our momentum up, but we're excited about it.

SPEAKER_01 34:17

And you can get it on Android and iPhone, right? Is that right? No, okay, excellent. Just go to the Play Store or go to the App Store, and it's free. It's a free app. There you go.

SPEAKER_03 34:25

It's free, it's 100% free. Like, and that's the thing, too. Everyone's like, well, how are you going to monetize? In the future, we will be charging hotspots to come on board because we're sending traffic in and we're giving them the tools to you know keep that business coming in. But it should be free to go and connect with people in the real world.

SPEAKER_01 34:44

I think you'll you'll figure out monetization. I know you'll figure that out. Because you know what? There'll be so many people using it. You're gonna be fine. You're gonna be fine.

SPEAKER_03 34:52

Yeah, we're not preying on the people, and I just remember that being so important when I was single. I was like, why am I being charged for everything to see who likes me? That that shouldn't happen. So good for you. We're gonna fix that, guys.

Hotspots And Meeting In Real Time

SPEAKER_01 35:04

Awesome. That is so cool. Well, thank you so much for coming on the show. I really appreciate it. We wish you nothing but the best, and hopefully you'll come back. Maybe when you're in the Philadelphia, New York City area, you can come in the studio and we'll we'll talk to you and see how things are going, okay?

SPEAKER_03 35:17

I would love to. Thank you so much, Brad. Thank you for having me.

SPEAKER_01 35:20

You're very welcome. All right, oh my gosh, Hugo. I told you it was gonna be hot.

SPEAKER_00 35:25

No, that's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_01 35:27

That's pretty cool, right? It's pretty awesome. So there you go, Amber Lee Oates, it's founder and CEO of Radar QR. Just go to www.radarqr.com and you will find everything that you need to know about finding relationships and friends and dates and all that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_02 35:43

All sorts of connections.

SPEAKER_01 35:44

All sorts of connections. All right. Thanks so much for coming here every Thursday at 7 p.m. to see a new episode. We do appreciate it. If you have any comments or you want to see something special in the show, just let us know. All right, that's about it. We'll see you soon.