Hey TravelBudd team ! Having done a 6 month internship myself in Costa Rica, this app would've been really useful to me, as I started to miss interacting with Quebecois after several weeks. So yeah, I like the idea of meeting people from a similar cultural background as mine when traveling on a long term basis in a foreign country. What I liked from the video showing your app was the ability TravelBudd gives to choose an age range for people we want to mee, and the information provided about how long has a person been in the country. Knowing someone has arrvied several weeks before me would incite me to meet that person not only to build a friendship, but also to ask tips on how to settle there.
As a proposition , I would recommend adding a map where we could see potential friends nearby. I think this could ad more visual interaction to your app!
Wish you best of luck with your project (and a lot of useful feedback)!
Thankyou sarah for your support ! Thats a great idea, and will definitely be taken under consideration during the development process.
Incredible idea! So excited to see this idea progress!