Competitive hot air ballooning may not be a sport you’ve given much thought, but it too, is feeling the chilly winds of “disruption.” An app created by Australian developer Sean Kavanagh, OziTarget, is partly to blame.
Kavanagh works for Kavanagh Balloons in Sydney, a hot air balloon-making business that his parents started in the 1970s. He’s also a self-taught programmer, bringing technology to a sport that, for the most part, has remained blissfully separate from the world of screens and downloads.
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