No matter who, when or where. Dancing is a universal expression for the joy of life.
Spread the love. Dance.
What is Bouncy Feet?
Bouncy Feet is the first interactive, digital shuffle dance platform.
It’s like a public library but for dance moves.
Learn from moves created by the community.
Or create your own moves and share them with your friends.
Features
The Bouncy Feet app makes it easier than ever to get started with shuffle dance.
Learn step by step
A combination of video tutorials and animations guide you through the journey of mastering Shuffle dance.
Get instant feedback
Through the camera, the app detects your dance and gives you immediate audio feedback. A detailed review shows you a score and how to improve your dance.
Browse list of moves
Get inspired by a constantly expanding list of dance moves.
Ethos
Keep your freedom while using Bouncy Feet
Bouncy Feet wants to be a positive addition to the global Shuffle community. A big focus is to make it as widely available as possible, without restrictions or negative side-effects.
- Privacy: We keep all camera recordings local on your device. All of the analysis happens on your device only. No uploads to the cloud.
Review our privacy policy. → - Open platform: Anybody should be able to interact with the platform created by Bouncy Feet. This includes general access to learn as well as the possibility to upload and share new moves and choreographies with the community.
Learn more about our open platform pledge. → - Software freedom: The code running on your device is not only open-source but it even guarantees the four software freedoms, which are to run, edit, contribute to, and share it however you like. The only thing we ask from you is to not redistribute the same software in ways the take away these freedoms from the user.
Check out the Bouncy Feet source code. →
Learn more about the free software movement. →
About
Who is behind Bouncy Feet
The initiative behind the project came from Jakob Meier, a shuffler born in 1995, shuffling since around 2012. But it took him 11 years to finally join a weekly shuffle dance class in 2023. Which just goes to show how hard it can be to find like-minded people and bring up the courage to go and shuffle outside the safety of home.
The vision then was to create a platform that makes is easier to take part in the global shuffle community. Thus, Bouncy Feet the app was born.
While the app and the trademark Bouncy Feet belong to the company Bouncy Feet GmbH, an LLC registered in Switzerland, the source code and the content on the platform belong to the community and its members.
This is important because the real value will come from people using the app and filling it with quality content that’s worth sharing. In that sense, it is really the community of all its users that are behind the things you see on Bouncy Feet. Today, this is more of a dream than a reality because the software needs a bit more work to truly facilitate this plan. But one things is for sure, the success of Bouncy Feet as it is envisioned, relies completely on inputs from the community. If you want to become an early creator/contributor, or just want to introduce yourself and let me know that you are interested in contributing in the future, drop me an email at jakob@bouncy-feet.ch.
