BlindRun
The coordination layer that visually impaired runners and volunteer guides needed simply didn't exist — so I built it, backend first, then the app.
I'm interested in how AI systems plan, where they fail, and how to make them reliable — and a little more human.
BlindRun pairs blind runners with volunteer guides in real time. I built its backend alone; it is now in testing with community partners.
from the BlindRun case study
I run, and at a road race in Shenzhen I found blind runners doing the same. For many of them a guided run is one of the few standing reasons to leave the house, and the clubs that organize it had runners, had volunteers, and had no way to put the two together: coordination ran on phone calls and group chats, and volunteer certification ran on one organizer traveling city to city. I built the layer that was missing, then guided a run myself and rebuilt the parts that had quietly assumed a sighted user.
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