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title: Mobile App Dev Project - App Brainstorming

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Mobile App Dev Project - App Brainstorming
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## Favorite Existing Apps - List
1. Twitter
1. Facebook
1. Instagram
1. YouTube
1. Spotify

## Favorite Existing Apps - Categorize and Evaluate
### Twitter
*  **Category:** Social, Photo and video
*  **Mobile:** Website has same functionnalities, uses camera, mobile first experience
*  **Story:** Allows users to share their thoughts with a limit of 140 words, post can either be a text or includes Link, Photo or Video
*  **Market:** Follow and hashtag based on interests, connect to friends and compny you are interested in
*  **Habit:**
*  **Scope:**

### Facebook
*    **Category:**
*    **Mobile:**
*    **Story:**
*    **Market:**
*    **Habit:**
*    **Scope:**

### Instagram
*    **Category:**
*    **Mobile:**
*    **Story:**
*    **Market:**
*    **Habit:**
*    **Scope:**

### YouTube
*    **Category:**
*    **Mobile:**
*    **Story:**
*    **Market:**
*    **Habit:**
*    **Scope:**

### Spotify
*    **Category:**
*    **Mobile:**
*    **Story:**
*    **Market:**
*    **Habit:**
*    **Scope:**

## New App Ideas - List
1. Job Finder - International Students
    - Allows International to easily find internships or full time position at the end of their study by connecting them to companies which offer sponsorship. Students can receive instant update from USCIS and ICE polycies

## Top 3 New App Ideas
1. Job Finder

## New App Ideas - Evaluate and Categorize
1. Job Finder
    - **Description:** llows International to easily find internships or full time position at the end of their study by connecting them to companies which offer sponsorship. Students can receive instant update from USCIS and ICE polycies.
    - **Category:** Job database
    - **Mobile:** Mobile is essential for instant notifications. Students use the app to look for job opportunities and apply at the time when the company is recruiting.
    - **Story:** Facilitate job search and application for international students sudying abroad, far from their home country
    - Market:** Every student, whether International or not
    - Habit:** Students are using this constantly to prepare the after their graduation
    - Scope:**
    - **NEED to look at for this:** 
        - public APIs to ask for database of employers that offers sponsorship for International Student
        - no need for a third party

2. Habit tracker app

    - it tracks the user's good and bad habits over time, and it allows the user to track their good habit in a gamefied app.
    - **NEED to look at for this:** 
        - try this app to get ideas: daylio
        - no third party intervention


    
3. Skill finder 
    
    - it helps the user to get jobs based on their skills.
    - also allows employers to put what skills they're looking for especially during pandemic.
    - and helps the user get those skills.
    
4. covid contact tracing app

    - it tells users what places to avoid and what are the most riskiest places to be near you.
    - **NEED to look at for this:** 
        - get public data for where there are high contamination of covid-19 to inform user about where 
    
5. food and location recomendations

    - it recomends users restaurant and places based on their likings and places they have been
    - restaurant recomendations are based on their couisine liking and places recomendations are based on their personal liking.
    - **NEED to look at for this:** 
        - Yelp public API can give list of restaurant based on different cuisines
    
    

## Choosen App
### Job and Skill Finder

*    **Category:** jobs database for students
*    **Mobile:** Website works like mobile, mobile first experience
*    **Story:** Allow users to find job based on the skills they have to offer,and student work status authorization.  
*    **Market:** All students, whether they are international or local, seeking job can enjoy this app.
*    **Habit:** Users will be notified about jobs availabilty from compamies they are interested in, and positions they're interested in based on their location. 
*    **Scope:** This app idea came in as many International struggle to find job at companies, because not all of them offer sponsorship to not US citizens. This app will then help them to know which company they can work at based on their skills they have to offer. It also lets students to know what skills employers are looking for to get hired. Its helps students whether they are local or international students.
