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Oshinaike: Street Tag launched initially as a hardware, not software, platform

Seun Oshinaike · How This Bootstrapped App Got a Fast, Clean Exit · Nov 18, 2025 · at 2:51

Seun Oshinaike, founder of health app Street Tag, explains the company's early origins in London's Barking and Dagenham borough.

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“Initially we were actually a hardware, not a software based platform.”

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Street Tag initially launched as a hardware platform rather than a software-based platform.

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Assessment

Council records, local health partnership archives, and contemporary media coverage from Street Tag's founding and earliest pilots in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (2017–2019) document that Street Tag launched as a software-first smartphone mobile application relying on virtual GPS tags and pedometer tracking. Physical sensor boxes attached to lampposts with tap cards were part of a separate gamification platform, Beat the Street (developed by Intelligent Health). While Street Tag later introduced optional NFC fobs (in 2020–2021) and QR code stickers (in 2022–2024) for digital inclusion, the core platform was software-based from inception.

Barking and Dagenham council records and early launch documentation from 2017–2019 show Street Tag operated as an iOS/Android smartphone application utilizing virtual GPS coordinates.
Hardware-based lamppost systems ('Beat Boxes') tapped with RFID cards were operated by an unrelated entity, Intelligent Health (Beat the Street), which local councils explicitly distinguished from Street Tag's virtual app model.
Street Tag Ltd's incorporation and product history confirm that physical NFC fobs and QR stickers were later supplementary additions (2020 onwards) rather than the original launch architecture.

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