MaskRadar.de - Alltagsmasken finden / Find masks

Dear MaskRadar team, supporters and fans, Some updates for you: 1. Status and development of www.maskradar.de We launched our site with self-registration options for shops on Apr, 23 in Germany with 40 shops. By now we have more than 90 shops live. We received a lot of positive feedback from users and also shop owners. Even though the restrictions in Germany are changing and many shops can now re-open again, there are still many business owners who are not allowed to continue their business like gyms for example. One gym (www.crazy-sports-augsburg.com) is also live on MaskRadar and sells amazing masks to save their business. We’re still working on the further development of the site by including filtering options and offline shops. 2. Communication, PR - Another newspaper article was published in Anton’s (my brother and MaskRadar co-founder) and my hometown Pforzheim (reach of 350,000 readers) to talk about MaskRadar - The German digital marketing magazine Adzine wrote an article about MaskRadar: https://www.adzine.de/2020/04/digital-experten-schaffen-vergleichs-website-fuer-gesichtsmasken/ - My former colleague, Stephan Theiss, interviewed me to kick-off the interview series on digital success stories for his company Digital Mindset. You can see the interview in German here: https://digitalmindset.de/erfolgsgeschichte1-maskradar - A radio interview will follow in the upcoming days - We started a series of videos with tips and tricks on masks, e.g. which masks to wear when you wear glasses and don’t want your glasses to mist up while wearing a mask, which masks fit best for tall people with big heads etc.: The videos are available here (more English subtitles will follow): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz7vjB5D9XswPxagI7uC77q3lAwhu7vIe Big thanks to my former colleague Jawwad Channa for making these videos a reality. Enjoy your hopefully sunny weekend, Rosa

Happy Monday dear MaskRadar team, supporters and fans, some MaskRadar updates for you: 1. New website Our new website with an updated design and self-registration for online-shops went live last Friday evening: www.maskradar.de (site is in German only) By now we have more than 40 online shops live on the site. The shops are usually small shops covering different mask types, materials, designs, price ranges and even special masks for children or cyclists. I would like to give a huge shout-out to all the people who worked on the technical implementation of the site. From our core team: Anton Klotz (Co-Founder of MaskRadar who had the original idea for MaskRadar and who is my brother), Klemens Dreesbach (our UX expert who always focuses on the user experience). Above all a big thanks to Dennis Nissen, who built the site backend and frontend in many free hours. Dennis is the CEO of Naymspace, a software developmement company. We have a lot of ideas how to further develop the site. As short-term next steps we want to optimize the shop overview, add more filtering options and include a possibility to show offline shops as well. In order to bring these ideas into reality we're still looking for financial support through donations for example. If you'd like to help, you can donate here: https://www.betterplace.me/maskradar-corona-webseite We're also in contact with people in the US and UK to potentially bring MaskRadar to these countries as well. 2. Feedback from the public We have received a lot of great feedback from users. We're currently working on quantifying the feedback and traction of the site by analysing Google Analytics metrics (e.g. number of users, pageviews, time spent on site...). The mask situation in Germany is changing: From today on it is mandatory to wear masks in many places like supermarkets and public transport. MaskRadar was also featured in a local newspaper from Hanau with a full page article. In Hanau it has become mandatory to wear masks since last Monday and Anna Schmitt (the marketing expert from our core team) actually grew up in Hanau, see the article attached. MaskRadar was also featured in a podcast in the UK that was set up by Matt Pattinson and his agency Ten that focuses on raising awareness for wearing masks in the UK. You can find it here: https://weareten.co.uk/blog/covid-19-side-effects-episode-18-mask-radar-the-one-stop-shop-supporting-the-long-term-fight-against-coronavirus/ 3. Communication of updates: We're now also active on a number of social media channels, so please feel free to follow these to get more up-to-date news: Follow @maskradar on Facebook, Instagram (German account), Instagram (English account) and LinkedIn Follow @maskfashionistas on Instagram Thank you all for your support, stay safe and stay tuned Rosa

Dear MaskRadar team members and supporters, I'm excited to share some new updates with you: 1. Virologist interview Our supporter and virologist of the university hospital Düsseldorf, Prof. Dr. Ingo Drexler, answered all of our questions on which masks to wear, when and how to wear them in this exclusive interview for MaskRadar. The interview was conducted by Anja Kühner, freelance economics journalist and awarded Special Interest Journalist of the Year 2014. Check it out, like, comment and share it here on our blog: https://maskradar.blogspot.com/ or on this LinkedIn article: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6653636217239810048 2. Coronabot The corona chatbot based on official information from authorities like the World Health Organization is live on our info website: https://www.maskradar.de/ The coronabot was developed my chatbot company Solvemate. Anna Schmitt, Marketing Director at Solvemate and member of the MaskRadar core team, provided the coronabot to us. The coronabot helps with information on COVID19. 3. Social Media MaskRadar has now accounts with content on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram. Just search for MaskRadar in your favorite platform and follow. Two amazing women networks, Mission Female (founded by Frederike Probert) and Global Digital Women (co-founded by Marco Duller-Onaran), featured MaskRadar in their social media channels 4. We're working towards our next milestone to get a prototype of MaskRadar live where users will be able to see a number of recommended online shops with available masks.

Dear MaskRadar team and supporters, It's day 10 of our MaskRadar journey. Many great things have happened and I would like to highlight just a few: 1. Our biggest need end of last week was to get some "CTO-level" advice on our tech requirements, so that we could start coding. We contacted many people and finally Philipp Wachter, the founder of wdp (Wachter Digital Partners) helped us. wdp is a digital consultancy firm. I worked with wdp during my time in the pharma industry and I have to say they're truly the best consultancy that I ever worked with. wdp also won again the TOP CONSULTANT award last year. Philipp introduced me to Simon Ludwigs, their Team Lead for Tech Due Diligence. We got the strategic advice that we needed to enter a hackathon and finally start coding! 2. Over the weekend we joined the 72hours hackathon CodeVsCOVID19 organized by the Swiss government. It was an amazing experience to virtually meet so many bright people all over the world and to work on different projects and hack corona. As a result of the hackathon we built a prototype for our back-end, wireframes to show our UI and created this fun video showing all our results: https://youtu.be/kPjkzqoV1eY Stay tuned and safe, Rosa