GoKawiilOn Survivor 48, Kyle Fraser’s alliance with castmate Kamilla Karthigesu helped drive him to victory. Now, the pair is teaming up in a new space, hoping for a similar outcome: they’re starting a business together. On Tuesday, the new co-founders are introducing Paprclip, a goal-focused “social accountability” app that they hope will become a more meaningful form of social media.
Inspired by their experiences in the game, post-game, and by positive psychology principles, Paprclip’s idea is to bring people together to tackle their personal goals — whether that’s a health and wellness goal or something else entirely.
The app is making its Kickstarter debut, where the team is aiming to raise an additional $40,000 towards its development.
Fraser and Karthigesu both played Survivor again in season 50, but Fraser unfortunately tore his Achilles during the filming of the first immunity challenge. He had to leave the game and start months of physical therapy, he told TechCrunch in an interview.
At the same time, his wife was pregnant, and he was contemplating his next steps as a Survivor winner.
“I had a lot of things going on in my life that required organization, but also accountability and a push from different people,” Fraser says. That led him to think of how the app Paprclip could work, by sharing clips with a friend, but with a focus on documenting and sharing their progress towards a goal.
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Together, people using the app can compete in daily challenges, build their goals and habits, and upload short-form clips that document their progress. Those clips can remain private or, if agreed upon, can be shared more publicly to other social media sites.
I’m very much a habit tracker, an organization hacker,” Fraser admits. “And I thought, there’s so many habit trackers in the world and so many productivity tools, but there’s nothing that allows you to really do things together. And, as corny as it sounds, you’ll always hear me say ‘people, people, people’ — that is what I feel has made me most successful.”
That is, Fraser credits other people with helping him achieve the major goals he’s accomplished in life, which include getting into college, playing lacrosse, going through law school to become a litigator for a major record label, and finally, of course, getting cast and winning Survivor.
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