Leggo Information

Leggo, a planning and gathering app for the WhatsApp generation. Leggo’s mission is to disrupt WhatsApp when it comes to planning and gathering, and make the app ‘sticky’ Trying to organise friend meetups in WhatsApp groups is a major pain point for people with large social circles, especially university students. Having five, 10 or even more people sending back-and-forth chats about when they are free and where they suggest meeting can quickly spiral into a never-ending slice of chaos. At least that’s the pain point that Singapore-based startup Leggo, co-founded by two Information Systems university students at the Singapore Management University (SMU) and the National University of Singapore (NUS), is convinced needs dealing with on a large scale. “Leggo works with a few tabs to indicate when, where and who you want to meet. Your friends don’t need to have the app — they’ll receive a text with a link embedded. They click on it and vote on time and location. It consolidates the votes and informs you on what’s the best plan,” Edric Subur, Co-founder and CEO, Leggo told e27. Feedback that Subur received from friends is that there’s still no single platform for them to indicate availability and preference on where they want to meet up with friends. So, in the entrepreneurial spirit, he decided to build it himself. Currently Leggo has a beta app available in Google Play for Android, with an iOS version planned to follow in February. The Co-founders recently welcomed onboard a lead developer who is also studying at SMU, bringing the team size to three. Leggo has just been incubated in the SMU incubation programme thanks to winning the university’s innovation award in November, where it will receive mentorship and S$10,000 (US$8,000). It was also placed fourth at the Southeast Asia Mobile App Competition (SEMAC) earlier this month, bagging a smaller S$1,000 (US$800) prize.