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title: "Friday Finds: Catch Pokémons Faster with Pokecrew, Navigate Airbnb with Ping, and the Toastmasters Champion’s Speech"
description: "This week on Friday Finds: Catch Pokémons with Pokecrew, easier Airbnb navigation through Ping, and Darren Tay’s winning Toastmasters speech."
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# [Friday Finds: Catch Pokémons Faster with Pokecrew, Navigate Airbnb with Ping, and the Toastmasters Champion’s Speech](https://blog.hellostepchange.com/blog/friday-finds-catch-pokémons-faster-with-pokecrew-airbnb-with-ping-and-the-toastmasters-champions-speech)

 Written by [Step Change](https://blog.hellostepchange.com/blog/author/step-change) | 2 September 2016

**1. Best Start-Up Story on the Web: Pokecrew**

This morning’s Pokémons from the Pokecrew website

Here’s a brilliant app that’s about to make noise around the internet. Pokecrew is a crowdsourced map that helps players find the Pokémon they want to catch. After building, shipping, and scaling the app, now they have 4 million users and a positive cashflow — how did Jarred and Lucy, the creators of Pokecrew, manage to get this done *in a month*? Check out their story at the [Startup Grind](https://medium.com/startup-grind/4-million-users-and-cash-flow-positive-in-a-month-the-story-of-pokecrew-9e08ed2c7aaf#.1bl8hp4qb).

This is by far the best article we’ve seen on the metrics that really matter for tech startups. Pokecrew went through the various stages all online service based startups go through — but what took them a month takes most businesses years to realise.

### **2. Guests Can Navigate an Airbnb House with Ping**

Frustrated that your Airbnb guests are not even reading the printed house rules you set? Say no more. Airbnb hosts can rest easy with [Ping](https://www.fastcodesign.com/3063164/ping-takes-the-pain-out-of-navigating-a-new-airbnb) — a cool wireless gadget that allows you to communicate house rules and even virtually welcome them to your house.

This is just the start of the rise of the Internet of Things, and soon businesses will leverage their digital capabilities so their brands can stay ahead of the competition.

### **3. 27-Year-Old Lawyer Is This Year’s Toastmasters International World Champion**

Singaporean lawyer Darren Tay was hailed world champion of [Toastmasters International](https://www.toastmasters.org/) competition. In his winning speech, “Outsmart; Outlast”, he tackles about our inner bully.

Overcoming our inner bully changes a lot of things — about how we go through our day-to-day, how we view ourselves, and how we treat employees and clients, among others. Watch his full winning speech at the [Business Insider](http://www.businessinsider.com/toastmasters-public-speaking-champion-darren-tay-2016-8/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=webfeeds?r=AU&IR=T).

 

*PS: Discover some cool innovations making noise in the internet — [read them all here](https://blog.hellostepchange.com/blog/topic/friday-finds).*

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