Clink is a no-fee saving and investing app that has allowed thousands to build up funds for trips and taxes alike. All you have to do is make a profile and start depositing money in your account. Your savings will grow faster than that time you got food poisoning and didn’t spend money on food for a week and a half. It’s easy, its productive and it gives you a thumbs up when you make an account.
Recently, Clink made an addition to their service that further proves that experiences are better than things. With the Group Savings feature, Clink users can combine their resources with friends to cultivate a group saving system that can be put towards trips, dates and other activities that require multiple people. This app is one of many that has jumped onto the fintech bandwagon. However, the key to Clink’s presumed success is their knowledge of what people want: to be connected to each other. Other payment apps understand that financial transactions are important and should be treated as such. But this effort from Clink shows that, in a world filled with disconnected people staring at screens, there is still a way to use technology to bring people together.
Smartphone addiction is more than a budding fad; it has become a serious problem. But if companies take Clink’s lead from group saving, the dawn of socially-connected technology could usher in a whole new way of meeting friends and making memories. That was cheesier than I meant it to be.
