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#TSRTech: Two HBCU Graduates From Baltimore Created An App That Gives You Instant Captions For Instagram Flicks

<p>And once again&comma; <a class&equals;"" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;explore&sol;tags&sol;blackexcellence&sol;">Black Excellence<&sol;a> is reigning supreme&excl; If you&&num;8217&semi;re part of the &&num;8220&semi;CaPtiOns arE strEsSful&&num;8221&semi; club&comma; these two HBCU graduates turned business partners are making your days on Instagram a little more easygoing for you&period; Remember that screenshot we posted a while back of a girl asking her sister for a caption&quest; &quest;&quest;&quest;&quest; this is for you sis&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a class&equals;"notranslate" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;captionanyphoto&sol;">Caption Any Photo<&sol;a> is not only free&comma; it has instant captions for days&excl; Basically&comma; you can pick a category of the type of caption you need&semi; like <a class&equals;"" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;explore&sol;tags&sol;homecomingseason&sol;">Homecoming Season<&sol;a>&comma; <a class&equals;"" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;explore&sol;tags&sol;breakups&sol;">Break Ups and <&sol;a><a class&equals;"" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;explore&sol;tags&sol;girlsnightout&sol;">Girls Night Out<&sol;a>&period; You can even search strictly song lyrics&excl; It even gives you the option to submit your own captions for the database&excl; On top of all that&comma; it allows you to set reminders for the best time of day to post to get the best engagement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The creators&comma; Juwon Nickolson and JaBre Jennings are two HBCU graduates &lpar;University of Maryland Eastern Shore&rpar; and are both from Baltimore&comma; MD&period; The pair said they wanted to create the app to help individuals and small businesses&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We found that a lot of businesses were having a lack of engagement due to not knowing what to post&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Jabre said&period; &&num;8220&semi;So what our app does is once you find the photo&comma; we give you the quote and caption to actually let you post to social media and increase engagement&period; &&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The pair said they met in undergrad at UMES back in 2010&period; They were both on Student Government&comma; where they became tight&period; He said once&comma; they took a photo and it took hours to come up with a caption when the idea sparked&comma; &&num;8220&semi;we should make an app for that&excl;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The business partners said they plan to expand the app as a subscription service for companies and brands&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The app is user friendly and is definitely the new wave&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Is this something that you would try out&comma; Roommates&quest;&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Check it out <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;itunes&period;apple&period;com&sol;us&sol;app&sol;cap-caption-any-photo&sol;id1135863198">here<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>TSR STAFF&colon; 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