EcoTech · Amsterdam
Save the planet.
Beat your friends.
EcoQuest turns picking up a bottle into something you get points for, argue about, and refuse to lose at. Real actions, checked by the phone in your hand, counted for the place you live.
7
waste types detected
0
cloud calls to verify
30s
from open to earned
4 820
total xp
today’s quest
Collect 10 pieces of plastic
checking on device
+180 XP
3 items · 265 g CO₂ avoided
city battle · season 4
Who is winning
Beat Amsterdam by 5 335 XP and Plzeň takes the season.
4 days 06:12 left
Why this works
Three apps already proved the hard part.
We pointed them at the planet.
BeReal
People show up daily for social proof.
Strava
Competition beats good intentions, every time.
Duolingo
A streak will get someone out of bed.
Most environmental apps teach, track or nudge. EcoQuest is the only one that combines verified real-world action with social competition — and the verification is what makes the competition mean anything.
The loop
Five steps, about thirty seconds
The whole product is one loop, tightened until nothing gets in the way of the shutter.
- 01
Get a quest
One a day, the same for everyone, so city-versus-city stays fair. Location-aware ones fire when you’re near a park or a cleanup.
- 02
Do it for real
Pick up ten bottles. Clear the butts off a playground. Cycle instead of driving. Real actions, not taps.
- 03
Photograph the proof
One tap to the shutter from anywhere in the app. No caption to write, no feed to curate.
- 04
The AI checks it
A detector runs on your phone and counts what it sees, item by item, with the boxes drawn on your photo.
- 05
Collect and climb
XP, EcoPoints, streak. Then find out where that puts you against your friends, your school and your city.
The hard part
Verification you can watch happen
A black-box “approved” invites distrust. So EcoQuest shows you exactly what the model saw: a labelled box on every item, the material it identified, and how confident it was.
- Runs on the phone, not in the cloud — so it works in a park with no signal, and your photos aren’t shipped anywhere to be scored.
- Counts individual items rather than judging a scene, so a quest target is a real number and not a vibe.
- GPS and a server-side timestamp travel with every submission, which makes a recycled photo much harder to pass off.
- Self-reported actions are labelled as such and never counted in city or country totals.
What the model returns
+180 XP
4 items · 265 g CO₂ avoided · streak kept
Seven reasons to care about your rank
Pick a level. You’re winning at one of them.
Most leaderboards give you one number and one way to lose. This gives everyone a table where they can plausibly be near the top.
Your standing · City
#3
of 4 180 in Plzeň
The level people actually argue about. City-versus-city is the part that gets a mayor to call you back.
- 1Plzeň13 067
- 2Brno12 400
- 3Ostrava9 980
What’s in it
Built to be played, not admired
AI eco verification
A litter detector trained on real photos of real rubbish, running offline on the phone. It counts items, names the material, and tells you which bin it belongs in.
The Eco Map
Litter hotspots, recycling points and community cleanups, built from what players actually find. The aggregate is what cities pay for.
Friend duels
Plastic collected, streak, XP — side by side with someone you know. Beating an abstract environmental goal motivates nobody. Beating Alex does.
City battles
Prague versus Amsterdam, updated live. Schools, universities and youth groups field their own teams.
Streaks that aren’t the whole app
Daily, friend and community streaks run in parallel, so one missed day doesn’t undo everything you’ve built.
Seasons
Thirty-day cycles instead of an endless leaderboard. Rankings reset, badges rotate, and everyone gets another shot at the top.
Beyond the app
The data is worth something to the people who run cities
Schools
One teacher sets up a league and three hundred students join in an afternoon. Classes compete; the school gets the statistics and a reason to run a real cleanup.
Cities
Anonymised, aggregated maps of where litter actually accumulates — reported by residents, verified by the app, not by a survey once a year.
Brands
Sponsor a quest, put your reward in front of someone at the exact moment they’ve done something good. Always labelled, never disguised as content.
Don’t just scroll.
Make an impact.
The Android build is ready to install right now. It is not in the Play Store yet, so it comes straight from us as a single file.
On an iPhone, or waiting for the store listing? One email, the day it lands.
One email at launch. No newsletter, no partners, no tracking pixels.