App benchmark

**list of favorite apps**
- social media
- youtube
- messenger
- twitter
- linkedin
- reddit
- instagram
- music
- spotify
- soundcloud
- video streaming
- hulu
- netflix
- transportation
- uber/lyft
- google maps
- (local transportation maps)
- education
- quizlet
- duolingo
- lifestyle and fitness
- 7 min fitness
- flo
- alltrails
- run keeper (tracks your runs)
- daily yoga apps
- marketplace
- poshmark
- photography
- facetune
- google photos
- games
- temple run
- tomb blast
- poker
- solitaire
- neko astume

## Favorite Existing Apps - Categorize and Evaluate
### Soundcloud
- **Category:** music
- **Mobile:** its a website as well, people use it as an app just as much as you use it as the website. mobile - portability, because iphones are smaller than a desktop. premium - download songs for mobile - when youre walking around, dont have to use data
- **Story:** Allows users to share their music with everyone. good for unqiue music, up and coming artist, remixes (that you cant find on spotify or apple music)
- **Market:** pretty large market, mostly used my young people, anyone can create an account. this app does provide huge value to a niche group of value. people that listen to more underground music. the audience isn't well defined, its just people that like music
- **Habit:** pretty habit forming, but not too addictive. you can use it without activiely being on the app - listen to music on the background. average user both creates and consumes
- **Scope:** overall, mildly doable. the hard stuff is going to be the network. uploading music to share it
- sharing music (Y)
- upload (Y)
- download (N)
- comment and like (?)
- create playlists (Y)
- recommendations - AI (N)
- UX/UI (Y)
- ads (N)
- premium vs regular (N)

### 7 min fitness
- **Category:** lifestyle and fitness
- **Mobile:** mobile app. its just a timer
- **Story:** people that dont have time to go to the gym and workout for a lot. you can do it in your house with little room, its quick and easy. NO additional equipment
- **Market:** people with busy lives that just want a quick workout to stay fit.for anyone that wants stay fit in a super easy way
- **Habit:** the app itself isnt addictive. you can have notifications, but its mostly self motivating if you want to work out or not. Rewards for if you do this app like a certain amount of times - but its all arbitrary. average user just consumes.
- **Scope:** easy. just have a timer and a set of workouts.

### google photos
- **Category:** photography
- **Mobile:** mobile app. you can use it on the website, but the backup is nice for the phone. very instant and easy. you dont have physically back it up, the phone does it for you. in case your phones dies, your photos will be there - security of your photos not being lost
- **Story:** mostly for yourself, you can share photos but its mostly a photostream for yourself
- **Market:** anyone with a phone can use it. the value is that your photos are there, its not necesarily a niche group. value - when you update or swtich phones, your photos are there with you
- **Habit:** not addictive. you often even forget that the app is there. there to make your life easier. sometimes you get notifcations about edited photos or automatically created albums
- **Scope:** medium.
- upload photos. gallery (easy)
- create lots of storage
- uploading photos - networking (medium)
- BTS (hard)
- facial recognition (AI)
- edit photos and how it combines them

**app ideas**
1. track your carbon footprint
2. travel app (merge all 3 of them)
3. clothes sharing but for a campus (formal wear) - easier than renting a tux/dress
4. tinder for restaurants
5. instant tutor app (for college)

- create your own workouts and uplaod them to an app tp share (kind of like soundcloud but for fitness)
- teach kids about current issues (social, political, environmental)
- tinder but for restuarants - yelp but in the form travel app that makes an itinerary for you - geared towards quick trips, over the weekend
- super fancy calculator but for the phone - use camera to solve written problems
- travel app for when you go to different countries and it teaches you the manerisms
- travel/language app for when you go to diffferent countires and it teaches you the 5 common phrases
- hello
- goodbye
- where is the restroom
- where is food
- blah
- instant tutor app (for college)
- app for "paying it forward" - world hunger
- app that lists ouy community service opportunities
- corn tracking app for farmers
- game but the revenue goes to support a pro renewable energy organization/conservation effor
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