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Lesser Recycling & Rewards

Making it easy and rewarding for individuals to play their part in reaching a zero-waste future by making recycling convenient and rewarding.

Lesser Recycling & Rewards
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Headquarters

Saudi Arabia

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Business size

Small business

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Industry

Commercial services

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Goal

Make recycling convenient and rewarding.

Challenge

In 2020, Saudi Arabia recycled 5% of its waste. Its goal by 2030 is to recycle 82% of all waste that would otherwise go to landfills. To meet the ambitious target outlined in Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 plan, it has to be easy for individuals to play their part in reaching a zero-waste future.

Solution

Lesser is Saudi Arabia’s first recycling app. The platform doesn’t just make it easy for individuals to play their part in a zero-waste future, it creates an incentive for them to recycle through a gamified reward scheme.

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Project Overview

Product

Builder Studio

Features

27 features

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“We highly recommend Builder.ai to anyone looking to bring their tech ideas to life without worrying about their coding skills. With Builder.ai, you’re working with a team of professionals. It’s a huge advantage over working with developers.”
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Mona Ahmed Othman

Co-Founder of Lesser

Helping everyone to play their part.

Lesser is Saudi Arabia’s first recycling app that makes it easy for individuals to play their part in reaching a zero-waste future. Through the app, people can search for and find their nearest smart recycling stations to dispose of their recyclable waste. By using these smart stations to recycle, they earn points which they can use to redeem freebies and discount codes for their favourite brands.

Building an engaging and rewarding user experience

Mona Othman, Co-Founder of Lesser, has worked in the recycling and sustainability field for over a decade. She knew from her extensive experience that encouraging people to recycle requires an intuitive and engaging user experience, “We’re missing solutions that engage and encourage the wider community.”

Mona set out to create an accompanying app that would map and integrate with the 270+ smart recycling stations established in Saudi Arabia.

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A tech partner, not just a developer

To bring her idea to life, Mona needed more than a developer - she needed a tech partner and a team that would understand and care about her vision. “With Builder.ai, you’re working with a team of professionals. It’s a huge advantage over working with developers.”

Mona chose Builder.ai because of the fast, flexible and cost-effective way of working, “Their pre-built blocks make it so much easier and helped to reduce the development time and cost of our application. The flexibility of adding or removing features was also useful.”

Exceeding all expectations

The Lesser app is new to the market but has already seen several early wins, “We launched Lesser a month ago. We’ve already had over 100 downloads and our users have recycled more than 500 bottles through the app.”

Mona is keen to build on Lesser’s success and continue making a difference, “We’re so excited about the Lesser app. It's going to have a great environmental and economic impact on our society and we’re very excited to continue our collaboration with Builder.ai.”

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Some of the features used
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Dashboard

An interface to view and digest relevant analytics data in an easy-to-understand visual format.Great for when users need to keep track of important metrics such as sales, cash flow and product performance.

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Match Algorithm

An algorithm for matching different data sets based on predefined properties. Can be used to automatically match, clean and sort large volumes of data.

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QR Code Scanner

Allows users to quickly scan QR codes using their device's camera to easily decode information such as website links, phone numbers, and payments. Needs a third-party integration, so the final cost depends on their pricing.

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Discounts & Offers

Display a list of all available discounts and offers. Can be used as a way of boosting customer loyalty and encouraging purchases.

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Visual Analytics

Turn large and complex data sets into visual displays that are easy to understand. Includes options to create graphs, charts and interactive visualisation. Needs a third-party integration, so the final cost depends on their pricing.

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Locator

Allows users to quickly find physical locations of a business by tracking a device geo-location or searching within a region. Convenient and user-friendly, it helps boost business connections. Needs a third-party integration, so the final cost depends on their pricing.

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