A Bracknell entrepreneur has said that his newly created app has been estimated with investors for a possible $1.5 million in the United States.

James Bell, a recent graduate from Bracknell, moved to study at a small business school in Michigan before Covid in 2018 where his goal was to gain his BA and MBA in business.

What he didn’t expect was that the corona virus pandemic would leave him stranded in his university halls and frustrated with the need to find a purpose.

What ensued, was an idea for an application that would take the big tech companies by storm.

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His new programme, Book!t is a social app that will allow groups of friends to book group activities separately, therefore taking away the need to split the payment at the venue or the hassle of transferring funds.

James said: “When we went into lockdown, it was through frustration of wanting to do something that made me start googling activities like bowling and laser tag and in-door skydiving.

“I knew I couldn’t do any of these things but when I googled it the first website that came back to me was a yelp page. I started looking at other industries like laser tag, paintball, and it was all the same.

“I started thinking that we could change this, that it could be better. Instead of having a yelp page we could bring it into the 21st century and have an app where you can book completely online without fuss.”

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He added: “If two people want to go bowling, they can both go onto the app and look at all the activities they want to do in the area. They would click on it, and it would automatically split the payment without having to use any external payment source and then it books it with the app.

“If you don’t know what you want to do you can go on the app and the front page will have everything from in-door sky diving to golf, and it would give a suggestion you can automatically book.

With investors offering hundreds of thousands of dollars to invest in his company, the Bracknell man is excited to see what the future holds, with hopes to tackle the European market.