Mobile App Dev - App Brainstorming Example
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## Favorite Existing Apps - List
1. Youtube
2. Spotify
3. Facebook Messenger
4. Tumblr
5. Storygraph
6. Reddit
7. Google Maps
8. Instagram
9. Discord
10. Venmo

## Favorite Existing Apps - Categorize and Evaluate
### Youtube
- **Category:** Entertainment
- **Mobile:** Easy to watch videos anywhere
- **Story:** Allows users to post, search for, and watch videos
- **Market:** Smartphone users
- **Habit:** Potentially limitless
- **Scope:** Narrow but it's expanding with TikTok competitor, other new services
### Facebook Messenger
- **Category:** Social
- **Mobile:** Convenient to message friends on the go instead of only at your computer
- **Story:** Users can message their friends and talk in group chats, can send multiple forms of media (text, image, etc)
- **Market:** All Facebook users
- **Habit:** Habits are limited to active conversations. Users are only prompted to open the app if they want to talk to someone or respond to a message
- **Scope:** Narrow scope because it provides one service
### Discord
- **Category:** Social
- **Mobile:** Real time audio chat and channels for different conversations + Screen sharing
- **Story:** Users can talk in group chats, good for group calls
- **Market:** Friend groups and communities
- **Habit:** Depends on the person, can use the app a lot depending on how active their server is
- **Scope:** Medium scope just because there can be a variety of communities that use Discord for different purposes

## New App Ideas - List
1. Artwork sharing app
- Like Instagram but just for artists. Artists can upload their work and choose which category it fits in, artists can discover other artists, etc
2. Realtime satellite tracker / visualizer
3. Weather app that displays kanye west quotes (found a kanye west api lol)
4. Tinder for finding roommates
5. Food app to categorize and rate the best dining hall food on campus and displays the daily menu
6. NFT buy and exchange ... except not sure how many public APIs are avaiable for this since it's new
7. Travel organizer - plan trips with friends and integrate with airbnb api for bookings etc.
8. Notification organizer - compiles all notifications and presents them using some algo to rank them based on priority and urgency -- aka gets ride of unneccesary notifcations and streamlines when you check your phone
9. Cocktail recipes and how to make them
10. Spotify visualizer of personal data - ie. what genres you listen to the most, your top artists of all time, which moods you listen to the most ... a ton more data that could be reprensented in an artful way using their api
11. Meme viewer - compiles top reddit / twitter memes or headlines from that day
12. Widget creation and design app
13. Visualizer to track packages on a map. integrate with amazon / ups / usps
14. fantasy football league but for stocks or something in that realm. fantasy stock league
15. Betting app that integrates with venmo/cashapp/apple pay to place bets on basketball games, personal events at parties, etc.
16. pokemon go but for buildings on campus / things on college campuses
17. crypto value tracker
18. Food truck map / tracker / rankings in local area
19. Social Restaurant finder
20. Tinder for study groups
21. Online thrift shop (small scale, e.g. in a local community)
22. Clothing swap app
- Users list their clothing and exchange it with other users for free (like depop but a free version?)
23. Meal planning and sharing app
- For people who cook a lot of food and want to swap meals/recipes etc to save money
24. Course schedule suggestion app
25. Tutoring app
- Users can sign up to tutor someone else, list the skills they have, users can contact potential tutors...like Tinder but for learning things
27. TV show tracker app
- Users track which TV shows they're watching, can post reviews, can see what their friends are watching
28. Food-centric social media app
- Users post pictures of their food, indicate the restaurant and dish, could integrate with Seamless API?
29. Habit tracker app
- Could possibly integrate with other services to generate reminders/post about habits
30. Scrapbooking app
- Users have one (or multiple) scrapbooks in their profile, they can add text, pictures, videos to the scrapbooks and anything they add will appear on their feed
31. Workout social media app
- Users can post their workouts and see what their friends are doing
32. Book club communication app
- Like discord but specialized just for book clubs, users can track progress, share book recs, etc. Maybe Goodreads has an API?
33. College matching app with diff categories within (e.g. Tinder section, study section, etc.)
34. Group outing planner / social networking app - messaging, calendar, google maps to help coordinate
35. language matching app - matches ppl wanting to practice, or matches language students to immigrants in community
36. social dance app - youtube aspect w/ vids and tutorials, social aspect with sharing own vids
37. App for suggesting activities/restaurants based on your location and interests
38. social fitness planner that displays relevant info like weather, good gyms, running paths, courts for a specific sport, etc, also has calendar and messaging so friends can plan to workout together
39. Data structures and algorithms study app
40. App for listening to music in groups - next song is determined by voting
41. App that lets people recommend travel itineraries for others based on destination, interests, trip duration, etc. (uses push notifications and google maps to keep user on schedule)
42. App that rates and recommends places to study based on criteria (e.g. heating, AC, noise level, access to computers, etc)
43. App that works around your calendar/schedule to suggest best time to start studying for finals, midterms, etc.
44. App to advertise short term / one time paid work both local and online, recommends offers based on your interests
45. Better version of ratemyprofessors - lets students periodically log their experiences in classes
46. Community recipe app - categorize recipes by cuisine, ingredients & recommend based on your tastes

## Top 10 New App Ideas
- language matching app - matches ppl wanting to practice with similar interests, or matches language students to immigrants in community
- Food app to categorize and rate the best dining hall food on campus and displays the daily menu
- social fitness planner that displays relevant info like weather, good gyms, running paths, courts for a specific sport, etc, also has calendar and messaging so friends can plan to workout together
- social dance app - youtube aspect w/ vids and tutorials, social aspect with sharing own vids
- Data structures and algorithms study app
- App that works around your calendar/schedule to suggest best time to start studying for finals, midterms, etc.
- Better version of ratemyprofessors - lets students periodically log their experiences in classes
- App to advertise short term / one time paid work both local and online, recommends offers based on your interests
- Travel organizer - plan trips with friends and integrate with airbnb api for bookings etc.
- App for suggesting activities/restaurants based on your location and interests
- Habit tracker app. Could possibly integrate with other services to generate reminders/post about habits

## Top 5 New App Ideas
1. Better version of ratemyprofessors - lets students periodically log their experiences in classes
2. social dance app - youtube aspect w/ vids and tutorials, social aspect with sharing own vids
3. Travel organizer - plan trips with friends and integrate with airbnb api for bookings etc.
4. social fitness planner that displays relevant info like weather, good gyms, running paths, courts for a specific sport, etc, also has calendar and messaging so friends can plan to workout together
5. language matching app - matches ppl wanting to practice with similar interests, or matches language students to immigrants in community

## New App Ideas - Evaluate and Categorize
1. Better version of ratemyprofessors
- **Description**: An app that lets students comment on their daily experiences in a class/with a professor. Other students can see and learn more about the class/professor
- **Category:** Social and/or Educational?
- **Mobile:** Because of the frequency of use, this app needs to be easy to access. Also, in school it's easier for students to use their phones rather than their computers (for the most part)
- **Market:** Any school district or individual classroom teacher of any grade could utilize this app. District wide licensing and custom features could be used for monetization.
- **Habit:** Teachers are using this constantly throughout the school day. Students are using the app daily to check their performance and cash in on rewards.
- **Scope:** V1 would allow teachers to access a roster of students and input behavior logs. Could actually be tested by a real teacher with a class of students. V2 would incorporate a student facing version for students to see their performance. V3 would add a way for students to earn and obtain rewards for goals met. V4 would incorporate a parent facing version.

2. Social dance app
- **Description**: A dance app that has a youtube aspect w/ vids and tutorials, and a social aspect with sharing own vids
- **Category:** Social
- **Mobile:** Since most people take videos with their phone, it's way more convenient to post directly from the phone rather than using a computer
- **Market:** Dancers, dance communities, people who just want to see cool dances
- **Habit:** Since users can also browse other dance videos, this app has the potential to be used for long periods of time
- **Scope:** Medium scope. Users must be able to post dance videos and look at other videos, but the scope can widen with additional features, such as integration with Spotify API (for automatic background music), adding counts, automatic mirroring of videos, or including an explore page

3. Travel organizer
- **Description**: An app that allows users to organize a trip and have a visualized itinerary
- **Category:** Travel + (social?)
- **Mobile:** Essentially google docs, but presented in a format that is organized in a way to view bookings, transportation, event booking, etc.
- **Market:** Anyone who is actively going on a trip or wants to plan one
- **Habit:** Only use when necessary, however if there was a feature to share high-level itineraries for others to see then a browsing section could be added to look at trips that other people have planned and find inspiration / copy events
- **Scope:** Medium scope. The basic integration of airbnb api, hotel booking, and flight api is fairly straightfoward, but when adding additional social features the scope widens.

4. Social fitness planner
- **Description**: App that lets people plan workouts together. Has messaging platform and calendar to plan workouts, also displays relevant info like weather, good gyms, running paths, courts for a specific sport.
- **Category:** Fitness + social
- **Mobile:** Convenient to bring with you to workouts to communicate. Sends notifications & reminders about your messages and events.
- **Market:** Anyone who exercises
- **Habit:** Users can open app to communicate with others to organize workouts, and to find helpful information to faciliate that planning.
- **Scope:** Medium scope: incorporates messaging, calendar, and outside information. Could be expanded for more social aspects - sharing favorite fitness workouts / media, giving feedback and encouragement, challenges, competitions, etc.

5. Language matching app
- **Description**: An app that matches people wanting to practice with similar interests, or matches language students to immigrants in community
- **Category:** Education + social
- **Mobile:** May depend on location to match users with people near them
- **Market:** People seeking to learn a foreign language alongside others with similar interests, or in student/immigrant groups
- **Habit:** Use when looking to practice language - responding to messages, joining pre-planned calls, looking for more people to talk with, etc.
- **Scope:** Medium scope: involes making profiles, implementing a matching process, and possible dealing with location