Hi!

Our categories will revolve around travel topics. Here are some examples of categories and subcategories:
- Around me now (all nearby reviews)
- Food & Drinks (Restaurants, Bars,...)
- Things to do (Parks, activities, attractions, nightlife, sightseeing, historic monuments...)
- Accommodation (Hotels, apartments, hostels,...)

Hi there.

Gamification pratices will be used across the app.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND BADGES
Achievements are milestones a user can complete. They give the user a future goal within the app and therefore
increases the user retention. Example achievements: “First to review a park in Berlin”, “Reviewed 20 places in 1
week”, “Curated 1000+ reviews”, “No. 1 reviewer in January”, etc.
Users will collect digital badges for doing something special. Digital badges are going to be displayed publicly on
user accounts. Achievements and badge collection are proven gamification mechanics. The point of them is to
boost users engagement, give users a purpose and just make the app more fun to use.
Apart from the achievements users may get additional badges like “Early supporter” for all of you reading our
whitepaper and being amongst the first supporters-.

LEVELS
Account level represents the state and trust of this account and is visible publicly. Users level up their accounts
by contributing to the platform in various ways (posting reviews, curating, reporting, creating guides…). High
level accounts get more respect from the community and getting to a high level unlocks additional features only
available to the most trusted reviewers. Levels is another proven gamification technique that incentivizes the user
to contribute more.

ONBOARDING
Nobody likes learning, that’s why the onboarding phase (tutorial phase) is one of the key points in user experience
where users must not be intimidated by the app. Game development industry has found various ways of implementing
tutorials without players even feeling like they are in a tutorial, but rather that they’re just playing the
game as it is. We’ll make the initial onboarding phase clear and easy, without much textual instructions.

Hi!

That's a good question. The answer is somewhat long.
Bot accounts can be identified and limited through things like phone verification and especially AI finding bot behavior patterns in the fake account activity log.
In the case of 1000 fake upvotes, our AI mechanism will have an easy task of identifying this pattern. A simple way of the top of my head would be comparing view count and reactions to video. Also looking at the geolocation and timeframes of the upvotes etc.
The point being here that fraudulent actions can not be prevented in advance, but they can be traced down. And rewarding users only after the community has their say about it gives us enough time to identify possible frauds.

Unfortunately no. In order to participate in ICO you will need ETH - sent from your wallet.

Thank you.

Only users may create and curate content. Businesses cannot affect any of the content, reviews or rating.

Yes, we are looking up to Instagram Stories as a good example on how short video information should be delivered.

We intend to use existing service providers that check uploaded videos for possibly unaccepted content.

Futourist comes from words Future and Tourist. We believe future tourism has to be built on transparent community curated platform.

Futourist will be built on top of existing platform called OpenHours. OpenHours is currently present in following countries:
Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Croatia, Italy, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, the United Kingdom, and the United States

To read more about existing platform and our partnership, please refer to the following blog:
https://medium.com/futourist/starting-with-over-a-1-million-monthly-users-77c6a17623d1

Token price will start to increase the moment our platform goes live. We have different business models that enable companies to enter platform and spend FTR tokens on our services - on the other hand these tokens are then distributed amongst reviewers who will most likely spend them within the platform or sell them on exchange.

Yes, offers may include food/drinks and other services.

Futourist team was present on following conferences in past few months:

https://medium.com/futourist/blockchain-from-east-to-the-west-coast-of-the-united-states-65570573d073
https://medium.com/futourist/futourist-going-global-15e602f15fe3
https://medium.com/futourist/devcon3-recap-ecf0933437a1
https://medium.com/futourist/disrupting-berlin-c8432b2a719c

We still haven't opened the public presale. It will be announced on all channels this week.

Hi!

Spammers will be detected and reported by the community, as well as our AI detecting fraudulent patterns. Rewards are based on community upvotes and downvotes, so such people won't get far anyway.
I strongly suggest reading the "How Futourist itself mitigates abuse" section of our whitepaper, written by our AI field expert Mike Amy.

Hey. Yes you are correct, 25% of tokens in the crowdsale.

If videos are good and users like it - no.

You may spend tokens on the platform by either grabbing offers from companies, or tipping users or cash them in on exchanges.

Futourist platform will have several available business models which companies can pay for with FTR tokens.

Companies entering Futourist with FTR tokens will not be able to affect their review score or overall rating. Owning FTR allows companies to create special discount offers for food/drinks/services or use other business models available - none of which can change the power of users that write reviews/vote.