App aims to be more than a ‘quick fix’

Jonathan deBurca Butler is impressed when he sees the results of fixmyarea.com, as his complaint prompts a quick response.

VISIT Wilson’s Place off Mount St in Dublin 2 on any given day and you can be almost sure of finding bags of rubbish heaped in a corner.

Having lived around this area for many years, I had a suspicion this would be as good a place as any to start testing out my new app — FixMyArea.com. I arrived at Wilson’s Place and I wasn’t disappointed. Rubbish lay strewn everywhere. I took a photo of the mess and uploaded it onto FixMyArea.com. The website then sent me an acknowledgement of my report and said that it would be looked into. Three days later I returned and sure enough the rubbish was gone and my FixMyArea account had been updated to say that the problem had been resolved. Suitably impressed, I decided to try again and the results were the same.