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Inside SimpliTend: Safer, Smarter Aging At Home
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What if aging at home felt safer, clearer, and less chaotic for everyone involved? We sit down with SimpliTend founder Saeed Sachi, a former family caregiver who turned real‑world challenges into a streamlined, two‑app system that supports seniors and the people who love them. Built from the ground up after caring for his mother with Parkinson’s, SimpliTend focuses on what families actually need: dependable routines, fewer errors, and calm in the moments that matter.
We explore how the senior and caregiver apps work together to build independence without sacrificing safety. On the phone side, a friends‑and‑family call filter blocks spam and scam attempts, while optional app locks prevent risky taps in banking or ad‑heavy apps. Battery alerts keep devices ready. Outside the home, a pre‑set “take me home” button guides a senior back with turn‑by‑turn directions, geofencing sends a gentle text to the senior and an alert to the caregiver when boundaries are crossed, and real‑time location offers quick peace of mind. For travel, caregivers can update the home address so navigation and geofence adapt on the fly in the US and Canada.
Care planning becomes simpler with medication schedules, meal and activity reminders, appointments, and a rich care profile that stores clinicians, allergies, diet, and daily assistance needs. A temporary caregiver mode hands access to a trusted person during breaks, then returns notifications to the primary caregiver with one tap, no more scattered notes on the kitchen counter. Education is built in, too: rotating articles, self‑care content, Parkinson’s and dementia resources, and clear how‑to videos for setup and features. Notifications can be tailored and even mirrored to a smartwatch, and cross‑platform support keeps iOS and Android working smoothly together.
Saeed also shares what’s next: privacy‑minded video calling that feels unlimited and easy, plus AI that surfaces meaningful trends, like increased use of the get‑home button. to inform better conversations with clinicians. With the senior app free and the caregiver app just $5.95 per month, SimpliTend aims to remove cost as a barrier to safer, smarter aging in place. If you’re a caregiver, clinician, or senior looking for fewer tools and more clarity, this conversation offers practical steps and a hopeful path forward. Subscribe, share with a friend who’s caregiving, and leave a review to help others find the show.
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Introduction to Simply Tend
SPEAKER_00Hey everyone, welcome to the Aging and Place Directory Podcast, your go-to resource for everything you need to know about aging comfortably and safely at home. I'm Mr. Kane, a retired occupational therapist and a certified aging and play specialist. Each week I'll bring you expert advice, inspiring stories, and practical tips to help you and your loved ones drive at home. So let's get started. Actually, this podcast is going to be broadcast on two on our Senior Safety Advice Podcast and the Aging in Place Directory podcast. So you can catch it on both. And of course, it'll be on YouTube. You know, today we have and so excited to we have a fantastic guest, Saeed Sachi, the founder and CEO of this wonderful, beautiful mobile app called Simply Tend. He is on a mission, I think, to make aging in place easier and safer for seniors and of course their family caregivers and caregivers in general. Simply Tend itself is a mobile app designed to support both family caregivers and seniors in managing the care of older adults, but also helping older adults to live independently. So I'm excited to get into this conversation and learn more about the app and about Said and how he is helping to change the landscape of caregiving. So welcome to the show. Welcome, welcome, Saeed.
SPEAKER_03Good morning and thank you. I'm very excited to be your guest today. Thank you so much for inviting me, Esther.
SPEAKER_00Oh, I I am I am actually honored. When I first took a look at this app, I was just, you know, I see a lot of apps. A lot, I get a lot of emails, people selling me their app or telling me about it. And they have just a few features, but yours seems very comprehensive. And I think it covers just about everything and more. Um it's it's the Alexa of apps for caregiving. It's one thing that has everything. So I love that. I love that. Um, but I do have to ask you, what what inspired you to create this? How how did the whole thing start?
Personal Caregiving Experience
SPEAKER_03So uh yes. Um, like in in 2010, uh, I became uh myself and my sister, we became the caregiver for my for our mother overnight. We moved, uh I live in New Jersey, so we moved our mother uh who had Parkinson's at the time. We moved her uh to New Jersey, and uh we both were working full-time, and we both had a family of our own to care for, and uh we became um caregiver. And uh it was very stressful. We had to divide the caregiving responsibility between myself and uh my sister. Um uh but you know, so that's how um I I got involved. Uh, and when I retired uh two years ago, um I was inspired, I felt inspired to uh create the app uh so I can help the family caregivers who are in the same situation that I was.
SPEAKER_00So you're definitely coming at from the perspective of experience. Yes, you know what it's like.
SPEAKER_03And actually, most of the features that we have uh in the um applications, uh in the applications that they're influenced by my own experience, what what I needed at a time. And uh that's why we designed it that way.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I love that this your app, the Simply Tend app, has a spam call blocker, which I have never seen in any other app. Um, I love the meal reminder, the medication reminders. I mean, I know those are all available in other tools, you know, but not all in one uh one app. So I I love that. I think that that's um amazing. And the geofense uh feature, can you talk a little bit more about the individual features of the app?
App Features Overview
SPEAKER_03Yes. So um at the high level, the application is a is a remote care application. There are two apps, one goes on a senior phone and one goes on a caregiver phone. And that's how they're linked together, and that's how we um we accomplish the remote functionality. Um what's unique about the app is that it focuses on both seniors and caregivers. So we understand that hey, if uh if they we have a remote app, that means that the senior could be home alone uh at times. So we promote independence and safety. So we want to make sure that uh senior stays safe while they're home alone. Number two is that we provide uh uh complete uh uh care for the senior, like medication, meal reminder, you know, all those that you mentioned. Number three is um is that we have uh support, uh online support for the uh caregiver. And these are in the form of a documentation and uh and uh videos that we provide for the uh uh for the caregivers. So it it it it the whole goal of the application was to support both seniors and also caregivers.
SPEAKER_00What kind of videos?
SPEAKER_03Um we have self-care videos uh we we have uh on the um uh on the app. We actually the app has a section in there for the caregiver, it has a section in there that every day we uh show a new article. And the articles are like you know, health information for the senior, uh, videos, uh, or some feature about the SimpliTent that uh we want to highlight uh for the caregiver. And it changes on a daily basis, and but but the caregiver can click a button and look at all the topics and choose uh whatever topic they want to review and learn about.
SPEAKER_00That's excellent. So it's so it's caregiver training on top of I can't imagine anything else you could possibly add to this app.
SPEAKER_03No, I mean it was it was that actually came from my own experience. Sure. Because when I became a caregiver, um, I was Googling everything my mother had Parkinson's. I was Googling, you know, Parkinson's the stages, you know, what do I have to do? And you know, so so that's why I wanted to add this in there. And we're working on it. We keep adding stuff to the database right now, uh adding different articles, but we wanted to provide some at least resources for the caregivers so that they can they can get this information easily.
SPEAKER_00Wow, it it it's amazing. It does it also have an interactive where they can ask questions and then get answers, or is that coming?
Safety and Independence Features
SPEAKER_03Very good question. This is yeah, this is so what we try to do when we started, we launched the app last uh February. Uh we launched our application, and uh, I've been talking to different caregivers, and I've been talking to um people who support caregivers, and uh and um it has they provided me great information, and actually we have updated the uh app since uh last uh last February. Actually, four times we just launched uh a new update last week, and we're learning, you know, and uh and we try to keep the app simple. And it was it was very important for us to make sure that both senior app and caregiver apps are simple, and some of the features that actually we didn't know how to make it user-friendly, yeah, we didn't include in the app. And as we're learning, so you have a great point regarding the uh two-way conversation on the some of these uh um topics, and I think is is a great idea. Um, once we learn how to implement those simply or user-friendly, we will do it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and you're right, that's very important about keeping it user-friendly because it can have all the bells and whistles, but you're right, if if people find it difficult to use, then it doesn't matter. So, do you then um what kind of feedback are you getting from the from your clients, from your customers who are currently using it? And I I have to tell you that I think the price point that you've put this at is an excellent price point. You can talk a little bit about that and then um you know tell us what feedback you're getting.
SPEAKER_03So um regarding feedback, as you know, as I said, I I I try to I go to the shows and also I try to go to the some of the senior centers and I sit down with the folks, and actually we have good, very good conversations. We go through the app and and they have given me great feedback, you know. And for example, the meal reminder. I didn't have the meal reminder in the app when we launched it in February. We added it in there. We have added a feature regarding um temporary caregiver. So most family uh members, uh you can't you can't do caregiving 24-7. Right. You need a break, you know, you need to take a day off, you need to go to work or whatever. So um the feedback we got was uh, you know, can you add a temporary caregiver? So we did that. Now you can in the app, you can you can select a friend or family member and put their emails in there, and they have access to the same information. Uh they can download the app. Now they can see the uh medication uh schedule, their activity schedule, they get all those notifications. In addition, we have care information in the app. With that, I mean is that you have doctors' name in their contact information, the hospital contact information, uh, seniors' allergy information, the diet requirements, the daily needs they have if they need to, you know, help to get dressed or they help to for uh meal preparation. All that information is in the app. So when the temporary caregiver gets access to the app, they have all that information. So the primary caregiver doesn't have to explain all that information to the temporary caregiver. Okay, when is the time for them to eat, or when is it time for the medication? They have all those in the app that have access to it. And uh it reduces the error, you know, and a stress. You know, I was a caregiver between me and my sister. We had to write things down to make sure that what she did, what she did, and what I'm doing, and what she learned, what you know, what I learned from what we were doing, you know, uh, because every day, you know, her symptoms were different. Every day something was different, but my mother that we had to communicate, you know.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, exactly. As you said, the stages as she progressed it, right? Right. I'm sorry you have to go through that with your family with your mother.
SPEAKER_03Thank you, thank you. So so that this app provides that information, it's all in the app. So the uh temporary caregiver would download the app to have access to it, and then uh all the uh notifications will go to temporary caregiver, and when the primary caregiver comes back from their brick, they can uh disable that, and all the notifications comes back to the primary caregiver.
SPEAKER_00It's excellent.
SPEAKER_03Excellent. You mentioned about the pricing. Um, yeah, there as I said, there are two applications. The senior app is free, the caregiver pays$595 a month. We wanted to make sure. I mean, to be honest with you, the caregivers pay a lot of money out of pocket when they're a caregiver. And uh, you know, for you know, you don't realize that, you know, because you even you're in the mode of caregiving, you know, you just do it because it's you know it has to be done. And I didn't want to make the app too expensive to to for the for the caregivers. And it's$5.95 a month. Um, the senior app is free, the temporary caregiver app is also free. So there's only one price.
SPEAKER_00Excellent. You know, keeping it simple. You know, I as an occupational therapist, I worked in home health for a little while, for a year. And um I mostly I specialized in in uh brain trauma, head injury in geriatrics. And I mean, something like this would have been amazing because you're right, walking into someone's home who they rarely get the same caregiver on a consistent basis. You know, they have family, of course, but then there's you know, someone on Tuesday, someone on Thursday, someone on Friday. And then sharing that information amongst all those people is not so easy. Like you said, there's a lot of notes on the kitchen counter, you know, next to the medicine. This is what happened, this is what I did, this is what she, he did, you know. So you're right, having a nap like this is excellent. Um, I I wish that had been around back then, but um yes, me too. Well, you you've done an amazing job putting it together. What prompted you to put in the spam call blocker feature?
App's Customization Options
SPEAKER_03Yes. So when we talk about the safety, um there are like two levels of safety uh I wanted to address. One was the whole smartphone safety, you know, and uh with when because I don't know about you, but I get many, many calls during the day, and uh there are sales calls, there are spam calls, and uh uh we get ourselves into trouble sometimes, you know. Uh and uh even you know I I had a friend, uh this wasn't my uh my mother actually experienced, but we had a friend who actually spent fifteen thousand dollars on target gift cards from a spam call.
SPEAKER_01Oh my god.
SPEAKER_03So so so those it was critical for us to block those uh spam calls. And the way we do it is um when senior downloads the application, they create a friend and family contact list. Okay, and if the call comes in and is not part of that friends and family contact list, it goes to the voicemail. So the senior won't won't get that call. And uh they can disable it, you know. They don't, if they don't want that, they can disable the feature, uh, they can turn it off and uh or turn it on. The other part of the smartphone that I thought it was important was you know, these smartphones come in with many, many applications in there.
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_03They're preloaded with many applications. Some of these applications they have a lot of advertising in there, some are banking uh applications. So the the other feature in there, we you can block from certain amps apps from opening. So okay, uh so senior would have it won't have access to those apps. Okay, they can they can simply use the other apps on their phone, but some some apps don't open. So it so we have we have that feature also in there, and from the phone again, from phone safety, one thing was important was uh the battery reminding seniors to charge their phones.
SPEAKER_00So that's a good one.
SPEAKER_03Yes. So we have in there uh if the battery goes below 25 percent, the senior will get a reminder, but the caregiver also gets a reminder that you know, remind your loved one to charge their battery. So that those three features mainly focused on the smartphone uh features. The other part of the safety was we wanted to make sure that seniors not only safe at home, but also outdoors. You know, I mean, I'm a senior. Uh I go I go for a walk all the time, you know, and and sometimes you know you get disoriented, you don't know where you are. So we have added a button, a pre-programmed button on the phone that is pre-programmed to their home address. So they can press a button, they can walk in direction to their home. So that's one feature.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_03And the caregiver will get notified that hey, you know, they're lost, you may want to contact them. Okay. Number two feature is that the caregiver always knows seniors' real-time uh location. So at all times they can click a button, they can see real-time uh seniors' real-time location.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_03Number three is is geofense that you mentioned. So we set up the caregiver can set the parameter uh um, you know, like a mile from home or two miles from home.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_03And uh when the senior crosses that boundary, uh two things happen. One is senior gets a text message that is customized by the caregiver. You know, you can put anything in there. Uh, senior will get a text message. Number two is caregiver will get a notification that they went too far from home. So these two uh, I mean, the three features that we put in there to take care of uh our seniors when they're outdoor.
Notifications and AI Integration
SPEAKER_00It's excellent. I mean, it's a full featured app. Um, not only, I mean, I can see where all those safety features can help an older adult to live more independently, but at the same time give the caregiver that peace of mind. Um, you mentioned the list of contacts. How many contacts can be on that list? Is it unlimited or is there a certain number?
SPEAKER_03No. Um, so the 10 default is 10. Okay, but they can change it to 50.
SPEAKER_00Oh, that's a lot. Okay.
SPEAKER_03So you can be 10 or 50. That's also feedback, we updated that, you know, since we launched the uh launched the application. So what we do on the contact is uh key feature on the contact is you you put in uh your contacts in there, but we also put a relationship there. So when you look at the picture of the contact or name, you say, okay, this is my brother, this is my uh friend. So that way, if they have some memory uh issues, when they look at the contact, it reminds them, okay, this is my sister or my brother or uh my friend that you know I want to call. So that's also included in the uh in the contacts.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Um, so if it was, let's say as you and your sister. So both you and your sister have the app on your phone, and then your your mother would have the app on her phone. So when um a medication reminder comes up, does it come up on both your and your sister's phone? Both of you get the same?
SPEAKER_03No, no, the the caregiving is actually one-on-one.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_03So one caregiver to one senior. So uh if the my sister, for example, is primary caregiver, she would get a notification. If let's say on the weekend I'm caring for my mother, then she would assign me. Now, okay, on the weekends I get the notification. She doesn't see the notification, she still sees, you know, the it that she has access to the app, so she can see all that information, but she doesn't get the notification. Okay, I would get the notification, and then when on Monday she can switch back and she would get the start getting notifications.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_03We we thought that actually having two people get notifications, it may get complicated.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_03And who is, you know, then who would be in charge, you know what I mean? Right.
SPEAKER_00Who responds?
SPEAKER_03Who responds, right? If I if I'm calling my mother and she's calling my mother is like it's too much, you know, it's okay. Who's in charge?
SPEAKER_00It's true. My mother-in-law lived to 102. So I can tell you that she would have been very confused if she had gotten too many phone calls. She wouldn't know who to who to speak to. And she would have thought probably that did I already tell you this? You know, being honest on the other person. Right.
SPEAKER_03There's a lot of small features that we put into us based on the feedback from one of our users. I would only the curkey with the notification.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_03Also, the caregiver can uh customize the notification. Okay, I don't want to see the meal notification uh reminders. I don't want to see medication reminders or you know other stuff. They can they can customize that.
SPEAKER_00That makes sense because if someone say the early stages of dementia, you don't necessarily need all those reminders, but in the mid to late stages, you may need them so you can turn them on and off, which which is very smart. The the uh caregiving um training or information that you have for the caregivers, is it broken down by um you know, for Parkinson's, for head injury, for dementia? Is it broken down that way?
SPEAKER_03Yes. So we have right now I have four categories. Um I guess this is something that actually um we're working on and we are keep adding to it every day.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah, it'll be evolving for sure.
SPEAKER_03There's four categories in there. One is uh self-care, uh, number two is uh Parkinson's, uh dementia, and uh simply ten features.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_03You know, and I have tons of information right now since we just added the updated app, so I have to go back in the database and add more information to our database.
SPEAKER_00I'm sure you're constantly working on that. Do you see any impact on all the the recent AI technology that's coming out? Do you see that impacting the app in any way, or how how do you see the two of them integrating eventually?
SPEAKER_03That's a pretty good question. I think uh the AI is gonna help uh long term. Uh because let me give you some scenarios. Uh, for example, like you know, if the senior goes for a walk one day, you know, for the first six months and they don't get lost, so don't use the you know, a direction button. And uh and then later on you see them doing using direction button, you know, once a month, twice a month, three times a month. So some of these things you can see the trend, you know, that hey, you know, looks like the trend is going up. Yeah, and uh how would that uh you know maybe you can communicate that to the to the primary doctor? You know, now I see him, you know, you can go based on the data when you talk to the doctor, you know, I see him um you know getting lost you know once a month, or I see him getting lost twice a month, or has increased, you know, or you could just eat uh uh breakfast. You know, so those are the things I feel that AI could help us, you know, and uh you know, including an interi that could help us, you know, is um what you mentioned uh early on regarding information that we communicate to um to the caregiver. Yeah, it would be great for the caregiver to type in some questions, and uh uh you know we have a back-end AI that can go search for we don't we may not have it in the database, but the back-end uh can go search for the information and present it to the uh to the caregiver.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_03Those are the other areas that uh AI could be very useful for us.
SPEAKER_00It will be very interesting to see. I mean, I can't imagine what the world is gonna look like five years from now with the impact of AI. Um I I'm I'm honestly just very blown away by by this app. I think um, I mean I'm definitely gonna be writing um a few articles on it. You have a a video uh showing the um process of the apps on YouTube um or on the website itself? Because I I don't think I saw one.
SPEAKER_03You mentioned the process uh how the app operates?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, like the the the look of it, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yes, so okay, I have a YouTube channel.
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_03Um that I can send it to you.
SPEAKER_00Yes.
Subscription Pricing Structure
SPEAKER_03We have uh many YouTube uh uh videos there. Okay, part of it is you know the uh you know what features are in there and how it works, and then we also have how-to uh videos. Okay, how to how to set it up, how to set up the you know, codegiver, you know, the temporary codegiver uh feature, how to set up, you know, how to block the app the apps in your smartphone. So we have how to information induced, we have how the app works and the features of the app.
SPEAKER_00Okay, I I may integrate some of that in the YouTube video with this um with this um interview. Um do you um foresee any collaborations with um you know, I don't know, home health agencies or other companies to use this app for them to use it, or is it strictly you want to keep it as caregiver and uh and senior?
SPEAKER_03I'm open to have that you know, obviously conversation. And uh I think some aspects of it it could be very useful if we do it with the agency. Um and uh you know, uh even we can customize it for the certain agencies with the our database, backend database, so specific information for their users, uh something like that. So it could be it could be beneficial uh to do that. Um you know, so I'm open, you know, for that conversation.
SPEAKER_00I can certainly see it as a product, you know, as someone who goes into um assess someone's home for aging in place, you know, um, just like they're recommending anything, a shower chair, winding doorways, you know, whatever they're recommending, I can see them recommending this as a tool. You know, one of the things that I like to recommend are um, you know, the smart home devices, the video cameras, you know, on the doorbell, anything like that. But um I can see this being part of the tool chest of products to recommend, especially since it is so affordable. And my personal feeling is you know, there's there's two blocks to aging in place for a lot of seniors is one is emotional, you know, it's difficult to admit you're getting older and that you need certain things and you don't want to make changes to your home. And then two is just simply the cost of making these changes to your home. Um, so having anything that you can use that is affordable and so extremely useful as this is, I think it's uh I think it's a no-brainer to have. I think you're going to be very successful with this product.
SPEAKER_03Well, the scenario that you mentioned um regarding recommendation, that's we're already working with uh a few people. They can add us at our application on their website or in their list to recommend to people. Yes, that's already been done.
SPEAKER_00Exactly. Good. Very good. Is there anything else that you wanted to tell us about this wonderful product? And I can't wait to uh to write an article about it.
SPEAKER_03What else? Um, regarding the um just the the senior care. Um the one thing I want to add was that the so we have medication management, we have activity uh management in there, um they also can put their doctor's appointments, you know, in there, we have news reminder. So all those uh information it resides on the senior app. You know, the carekeeper has remote access to it because the remote could have remote access, they can update the medication, they can add a medication or change a time to have access to all that remotely. And uh what it is will be put on the senior app because it kind of goes back to senior independence. So that way when a senior is home alone, they still follow the structured routine. They take the medication on time, they get a notification, they go to their activities, you know. So if they are independent, they can follow their own uh routines and schedule that app tells them. Um and but if they need help, you know, then the code gives a book uh reminds them. So I just want to add that.
SPEAKER_00Excellent. Well, Saeed, I want to thank you so much. Thank you so much for your time. Um I do I do appreciate it. Um I I can't wait to get this out and get feedback, you know, on on the uh on the interview and the article itself. Thank you.
Location Features While Traveling
SPEAKER_03Thank you very much. I enjoyed our discussion. Thank you very much.
Future App Development Plans
SPEAKER_00Thank you. Stay stay on, stay on. Um, I do want to ask you since you know, I'm sixty-seven years old, so my group of friends are seniors and they're all retired and traveling and doing whatever. How would this work for the senior who's traveling? Um well, I mean it would it would be it would it would work for the location, like to let the caregiver know where they are.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Um the medication schedules and stuff still.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_03And uh, and then the other thing, um if they let's say caregiver, I mean goes, I mean Georgia, it goes to let's say Maryland. The their friend, uh the caregiver can change the address, the home address to the Maryland.
SPEAKER_00Uh there.
SPEAKER_03So now they can if they go for a walk, they know the location there. If they go for a walk, they get the same uh notification, they get lost, they get the same notification. So geofense would work, you know, a mile or half a mile around that location. And then when they come back home, the caregiver can change the location to the home address.
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SPEAKER_03So everything would work normally. As long as you're in the United States, Canada. So our approval in US and Canada.
SPEAKER_00Okay. All right. I think that'll be good. And I did want to ask you in in the uh interview, but do you um does this work? Because I know there are some apps that will work on the phone and on the on the smartwatch. Does this work on a smartwatch as well?
SPEAKER_03So notification, if you set it up, it would show up on the smart smartwatch. That's a function of the smartwatch. You know, because when you go in the smartwatch, you say, okay, which notification I want to see on my uh watch. Correct. You can select this app and the notification will show up there.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_03Yes.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_03Um was that um the two applications, uh, one for senior, one for caregiver, and they're cross-platform compatible. What that means is that if the senior has an Apple phone and the caregiver has an Android, the still would work, or vice versa.
SPEAKER_00Oh, that's a good, I'm gonna include that. That's a very good point. I didn't even think about that. Very good point.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, so because that was that was complicated, you know, to make sure that you know the apps are still communicating with each other, they still work, doesn't matter what platform you have.
SPEAKER_00You must have come across a lot of challenges putting this together, technically.
SPEAKER_03I mean we started off um we want because most of the application you see in the market, like for example, you see application gaming application, or uh even flight, you know, you got line as a you know app, you know, those are actually designed with one appoint on Android and uh Apple because they they they um I did at the higher level because of the complexity of these applications, we actually had to write four applications for Android, two for Apple Apple phone. So one senior, one curve for Apple, and one senior, one curve for Android, and they have to be working together, all four had to be working together.
SPEAKER_00Oh, I can't even imagine there must have been a lot of sleepless nights. That's all I can think of.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it took us uh you know, a year to come up to actually design the app and you know launch it.
SPEAKER_00Oh, how do you see the app changing in the next year or two or five? You see it changing. How do you see it evolving?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, so I mean one feature that I've been um, you know, we've been talking about including was like a video call. Okay, I I think that's important, you know. Uh for the caregiver, you know, have a video call through the app with their senior. The challenge that we had initially that we didn't include, did not include it, was because when you use a video call, then you're using data. People have to you know make sure that they have the good Wi-Fi or they have 5G or 4G. So that one complexity, the other one was you know, the video call cost is different, you know? So you want to make sure that I didn't want nickel and time to continue that, okay? You can only have a video call for 30 minutes, or you can only have it for an hour. We want to make it unlimited. So you have a video called, you can call for like an hour, don't worry about it, you know. So that's what we talk about simple, right? Simple for the for the user. So I think we have figured it out how to do it. So in the next six months to you know, nine months, we may add that to the to the app. And the other thing you mentioned about the AI thing, I think that's to be honest with you, that's a big phase, the next phase that you know that we could add it in the next year or so.
SPEAKER_00Thank you.
