### New App Ideas

- News app that exposes users to news sources across the political spectrum
- **Category:** News
- **Mobile:** Push notifications, convenience of reading when outside or while commuting
- **Story:** Under each category of news (business, politics, international, etc) contain news sources from several news sources with different political slants
- **Market:** People who like to keep up with the news
- **Habit:** Update every day or every few hours with new articles to read
- **Scope:** Should be okay, need a news API that includes categories.
- Meal prep/recipes app
- **Category:** Food
- **Mobile:** Meh
- **Story:** Allows users to view recipes in different categories
- **Market:** People who cook
- **Habit:** Can check every day or every week for more recipes
- **Scope:** Can add features like dietary restrictions, favorites, ratings/comments
- Mental health/mood tracker
- **Category:** Health
- **Mobile:** can ask users multiple times throughout the day with notifications, even when it's inconvenient to have computer
- **Story:** Allows user to answer question/fill out text boxes about mood or thoughts, and allows therapist/health professional to see the responses and general trends.
- **Market:** People who need mental health support
- **Habit:** User inputs data once or more times a day.
- **Scope:** Can add many features like multiple choice questions, open text fields, voice entries, photo entries, etc
- Make an app that allows users to self-verify quality of local beaches
- **Category:** Travel/Local
- **Mobile:** Used on mobile for pictures
- **Story:** Used to check quality of beaches, if there is trash on them and how good they are. The community powers the app by current feedback about the beaches
- **Market:** People who want to explore new beaches, or make sure the beach that they are going is nice
- **Habit:** Used whenever someone wants to go to the beach
- **Scope:** You can add features like: see if there is parking near the beach, places to eat, etc. All in one place. (reduces the number of things you have to google search and improves the accuracy of these categories)
- Matching donations with organizations
- **Category:** Community
- **Mobile:** Can upload photos
- **Story:** Non profits usually have a lot of trouble receiving donations because they usually do not get the items that they need or get an overflow of items when they have the sufficient quantity. On the other hand, users who want to donate items don't know what to do donate and to which organization. This app will connect donors and organizations, making the donation process a more efficient one.
- **Market:** People who want to donate items and organizations who need donations.
- **Habit:** Use whenever people want to donate items
- **Scope:** Adds more structure than Facebook pages/groups

### Our Favorite Apps
* Reddit
- **Category:** Social
- **Mobile:** not just mobile, it's primarily used on its website.
- **Story:** Allows users to share their thoughts across communities organized by topic.
- **Market:** Anyone that can read and has specific interests can use this app. Ability to follow specific communities which allows users with unique interests to engage with relevant content.
- **Habit:** Users can scroll and post either posts or comments at any time.
- **Scope:** Has stayed mostly the same, just as a platform to write comments.
* Twitter
- **Category:** Social
- **Mobile:** Most people use it on mobile, but you can use it on a website also
- **Story:** In a limited amount of words, users share their thoughts
- **Market:** Everyone
- **Habit:** View tweets, make your own tweets. Also used as a news source
- **Scope:** Has become a useful tool for communication

* Spotify
- **Category:** Entertainment
- **Mobile:** Most people constantly carry their phones with them, so can easily connect headphones and stream music.
- **Story:** Allows users to access music by playlist, artist, genre, etc and stream easily.
- **Market:** People who like to listen to music
- **Habit:** It's super easy to pull up music at any time whenever you're bored
- **Scope:** Has expanded from just accessing music, to now also suggesting new playlists/songs very accurately.
* Facebook/Messenger
- **Catgory:** Social
- **Mobile:** Used on both the web and phones
- **Story:** Allows users to connect with real-life friends and those who share their interests.
- **Market:** Everyone
- **Habit:** All the time
- **Scope:** More features than I can even list out
* Gmail
- **Category:** Emails
- **Mobile:** Mostly used on web, but useful on mobile also
- **Story:** People can view their emails
- **Market:** Everyone
- **Habit:** Look for new emails, write emails
- **Scope:** Extended functionality includes links to add events to calendar
* Tinder
- **Category:** Social
- **Mobile:** Most people use when bored, easy to pull out phone while on commute/outside and not laptop.
- **Story:** Allows users to connect with other single people based on photos and bio.
- **Market:** Single bored people
- **Habit:** People think it's gamelike, open when bored and have a few minutes.
- **Scope:** Has stayed the same throughout, just swipe and message features.

### Evaluating App Ideas Protocol