eblockwatch · since 2001
One step ahead.
Safety is not a product. It is a web of relationships, and relationships take time. Over 25 years, more than 95,000 people have registered with me. Each of them has my number, and I have theirs. Behind them stand their community WhatsApp groups and the local security teams they know. When something goes wrong, I do not sound an alarm. I call the right people, because I know them, and they know me.
Andre Snyman, founder of eblockwatch
How it works
Start by putting your own house in order
Your Cyberdome
Know yourself before trouble finds you. Who you are, where you live, what you drive, who to call. Every gap is a minute lost when it counts.
The BackApp
It knows when you leave a safe zone and when you should arrive. You do not have to tell it. Shake your phone and the response starts. Ry hier, ry daar.
The Gauntlet Run
Say where you are going. Someone then knows when you should arrive, and moves if you do not. That is not surveillance. That is being accounted for.
Andre and the network
A real person, not a call centre. When something goes wrong, the right people are brought in, in the right place, at the right time.
The radar
How many eblockwatch members are around you?
Type a suburb, or tap anywhere on the map. We show how many, never who or exactly where.
Each shaded square is about 2 km wide. Darker means more members. Squares with fewer than 10 members are not shown.
From Andre
Real police officers do not mind being recorded
What I have learnt
Crime depends on surprise. Remove the surprise and you remove the advantage.
Surprise is their weapon
An attack at a robot is over in seconds. Whatever happens after that is cleanup. Awareness before the event is worth more than any button pressed after it.
Pressing a panic button after an incident is like moaning at the ref after the game.
The cameras watch. Nobody connects them.
We have spent billions on cameras, patrols and apps, and people are still robbed at the same robots. The problem is not a shortage of equipment. It is a shortage of connection.
Intelligence comes from people
Every report is a piece of a larger picture. Nobody is obliged to send one. But when someone does, it goes to one place, where it can be put together and acted on.
Identity is defence
People have always been safer together than alone. A visible eblockwatch sticker says you are not alone, and that matters more than it seems.
Touch one, you touch all of us.
Loyalty cannot be bought
Trust cannot be bought, and it cannot be rushed. Mine was built over 25 years with community groups and local security, one relationship at a time. That trust is what answers when I call.
We look after you between safe zones
Home, work, school. Those are your safe zones. The risk lives on the road between them. That is where we watch, and nothing escalates while you are home.
One general decides
You are not expected to act. Your strength is your connection: your community group and the local security who know you. Decisions are made in one place, by someone who sees the whole picture. Too many voices in a crisis produce chaos.
I'm not saving the world. I'm saving my members.
The BackApp
Your radar between safe zones
It does one job, and does it properly: it knows when you leave a safe zone and when you should arrive. Shake your phone and the response starts. Free for every member.
iPhone installs through Apple TestFlight. Android: we send your download link on WhatsApp.
Membership
Start where you are. Take on more when you are ready.
Entry Level
Free
- Andre has your number, you have his
- Your Cyberdome and home pin
- The BackApp
Single Membership
R150 a month
- Everything in Entry Level
- Live oversight of your trips
- Immediate intervention when something goes wrong
Family Membership
R250 a month
- Single Membership for your household
- Your family linked in one circle
- One relationship, everyone covered
Our community
We have enough friends.
Enough to keep you safe.
Enough to level the field at a roadblock.
Enough to make bad actors think twice.
Enough to bring people when muscle is needed.
We are not chasing numbers. We want the right people. More than 95,000 members are registered with me, and every one of them has my number. Our Facebook page is where the community talks every day.
Someone who belongs here can find us on WhatsApp: send JOIN to +1 315 820 0999.