App for avoiding Black Neighborhoods...crazy god damn white people

[randys1]

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/08/08/these-white-people-just-made-an-app-for-avoiding-black-neighborhoods/

Someone please stop the crazy white people. In yet another example of racist appery, the white entrepreneurs above just made another app to help white folks ensure they never end up in a place where there are…well…non-white folks.

SketchFactor, helps users avoid “sketchy” neighborhoods, and by ‘sketchy’ they mean ‘poor and non-white’. Yet, far from being condemned as racists by the tech community, grinning Caucasian c0-founders, Allison McGuire and Daniel Herrington are finalists in a $20,000 startup contest!

[Yavin4]

1. In NYC, that app would be used to tell you where to BUY property.

Today's sketchy neighborhood is tomorrow's new hip place to live in NYC. Due to gentrification, many "sketchy" neighborhoods have quickly become high price real estate.

[gordianot]

2. I want an app to identify Republican or Tea party neighborhoods to avoid.

For example the small town where I live is infested with the Klan and Tea Party who are mostly very quiet. It would have come in handy before I bought a house here.

[randys1]

3. Oh my god, that is terrible...i really cant stand the rightwing anymore, at all