While other teenagers are hanging out with friends or play sports after school, Brooke Yoakam goes to business meetings.
Yoakam first began developing mobile app called GiftPocket at the age of 12. Now 17, this girl from Ohio, US has finally launched the app.
It allows users to upload gift cards from various businesses and store them all in one place. Users can also exchange gift cards. The app is free to download and use.
Yoakam said about 1,000 users have downloaded the app, with 87 percent of them signing up and 45 percent ading at least one gift card to the service.
Yoakam came up with the idea for the app after attending a leadership academy in sixth grade. She was asked to solve the problem. She realized that she always forgot her gift cards to store and use the gift cards from there.
After leaving the academy, Yoakam decided to develop an app that would solve this problem. She won a local business competition and received $2,000(13,800 yuan) from a company to invest in her idea. She traveled around after school two or three times a week to work on the app. She even gave up some of her hobbies and activities.
The app has helped her realize her interests. She hopes to major in business and technology in college.
a. Users can upload and store gift cards on it.
b. Users ca exchange gift cards with each other.
c. Users can upload as many cards as they want.
d. Users have to pay to use it.
