Unsung and Arcade City Team Up to #HackHunger, Feed Homeless in Austin
Food sharing app Unsung has partnered with decentralized ridesharing service Arcade City to feed the homeless in the city of Austin. Unsung is an app designed to solve hunger through a liaison between restaurants, the needy, and volunteers. A restaurant uses the app to indicate that excess food is available for donation. A homeless or otherwise needy person can then be located by dropping a pin through the app, and a volunteer will take the food to the needy. Volunteers may be tipped in Bitcoin. The partnership would use Arcade City drivers to deliver the food. The announcement came via a....
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