HNL Connect

I’m a huge data girl, so tracking my trips and seeing that I saved $272 dollars (really enough for one spa service, not a whole day at the spa haha) and planted 6 trees with the emissions I saved by taking the bus and walking is cute. I feel like a Sim. A few minor glitches, but overall I think it’s like your Apple Watch when you track your steps and workouts. Just a way to incentivize and make trips fun for the community. Thanks HNL Connect!

Got it last month and set it up to automatically track my daily commute — usually i walk to work. Thought I would have to wrack up enough points to enter the giveaways, but you actually get 1000 pts just for downloading. So I was able to win the palaka holo card! Now I’m seeing more giveaways pop up on the app, like AirPods. Since I’m commuting anyway, I might as well get rewarded for it haha

This app is a good idea, but there’s some things that haven’t been thoroughly thought through. When you use the app, it requires you to fill out your profile of where you live and where you’re heading to. It then shares your location of where you live and where you’re heading to do the public for the purpose of public transport. This means that if I needed a ride somewhere, I could find out if there’s someone nearby me that I could rides share with or someone could ride share with me. Of course you have to message a person, but it gives me a close enough proximity of knowing where you and where you might work, opening yourself to potential dangers that are overlooked. If you’re not concerned about your safety, and only about transportation, then this is a good app to use. If you’re more concerned about your privacy and protect protecting yourself from any potential threats, it’s best not to use this app.