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Pet adoption mobile app Adopsi seeks to help more stray animals
Free to use, the app connects people who want to adopt animals with people looking for an adopter for an animal.
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Released on Google Play Store in September 2016, Adopsi is said to be "the first specific pet adoption platform in Indonesia" run by volunteers. (Shutterstock/Elena Arkadova)
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et adoption mobile application Adopsi has announced its plans to launch more features in order to help the problem of stray animals through an adoption program.
In a statement, Adopsi app founder Bobby Fernando said the new app would be available for both iOS and Android devices and have many new interesting features and improvements.
"We are going to rewrite the code and change it to a more friendly algorithm to combine with the geolocation feature of smartphones'," added Bobby Fernando.
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Released on Google Play Store in September 2016, Adopsi is said to be "the first specific pet adoption platform in Indonesia" run by volunteers. It so far boasts over 15,000 registered users, more than 1,200 listed adoptable animals, 1,800+ pet adoption form submissions and 300+ adopted-tagged animals.
Free to use, the app connects people who want to adopt animals with people looking for an adopter for an animal.
The non-profit community has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to support its development plans, which ends on Aug. 30. (nic/kes)
