SoleSearch Helps You Find Sneaker Boutiques from Your iPhone

SoleSearch is a new iPhone and iPod touch app geared towards helping travel-prone sneaker aficionados hone in on hundreds of independent sneaker boutiques in U.S. cities and locations across the globe.  Pangaea Subsidiaries—a multi-faceted company with several endeavors in fashion, music, art, and philanthropy—released the application recently.

Black Digerati discussed SoleSearch with Pangaea CEO and Black Digerati Brandon Williamson, who also owns All City Kicks, a sneaker boutique in his hometown Grand Rapids, Michigan.

“SoleSearch is really for the individual who travels and sees parts of the world.” he said. “It’s been received pretty well. Anyone who’s purchased it, they love it.”

Williamson explained the new app via YouTube:

SoleSearch’s most useful feature is a directory with listings on local shoe shops as well as boutiques in Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America. Chicago State University student and iPhone user Jonathan James is a fan of the app:

“There’s nothing like it,” said James.” Sneaker heads like myself, they have to feel the same—excited.”

One of the app’s impressive features is an interactive “Add a Store” option meant to continually expand the store database.  “Any store we missed, we give the user the ability to let us know,” Williamson explained.  Pangaea has plans to make SoleSearch more “user-active” in the future with updates allowing users to view and post reviews on boutiques.  “We want to make it more of a forum within an app,” Williamson said. “This allows the app to continue to grow.”  Williamson ended the interview with words of encouragement for young tech-minded African Americans.  “If you’re an individual who has an idea, you have to at least see it through to see what you can make of it,” he said. “Today’s idea can be tomorrow’s million-dollar check.”

You can view a video demo of the app over on Black Digerati or you can purchase the SoleSearch app for $0.99 at the appstore, keyword “solesearch.”

Follow SoleSearch on Twitter: www.twitter.com/sole_search.