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# App Design


## New App Ideas - Evaluate and Categories
1. Forced interaction content app "Swipely/Swipr/Hive"
   - **Description**: User can view photos and videos and can only navigate through content by swiping right/left. Comments for a post can be viewed by swiping up. 2 Main modes: Explore Feed and Follow Feed.
   - **Category**: Social Networking/Entertainment
   - **Mobile**: Camera is used to share images and videos. Push notifications when people interact with your content.
   - **Story**: Creates more interaction on posts.  Disliked content will be taken down. 
   - **Market**: Young adults
   - **Habit**: Users will open this app many times in a day- content is very short and when using the "hot" sort only the best new content will be shown. They will also be able to post their own microblog content. The average user will mostly consume but probably create at least once a week.
   - **Scope**: This app will be challenging but it is probably possible to build by the end. A stripped down version would still be entertaining.

2. OWC: Objective Workout Calculator 
    - **Description**: From a set of requested data, calculate the workouts and diets that are fun & feasible for people of all levels of fitness. It will inform them of the science of each workout with reliable sources and documentation/papers regarding it.
    - **Category**: Fitness
    - **Mobile**: Users will enter their level of progression, goals, and preferences so the app can analyze the data to curate a workout schedule that engages them while challenging them. They can share their progress and their own user-generated conten on their own channels.
    - **Market**: Young adults
    - **Habit**: Users will open the app daily
    - **Scope**: Basic skeleton using API requests for workouts and papers. It will only recommend workouts rather than allow users to create content

3. Grounded
    - **Description**: A Common Ground Finder: Discussion app for people to pick a topic then find a stance as curated by other people. Once you've picked a stance you view counter-arguments that other people have curated- in a forum style. After viewing counter-arguments you can create counter arguments for the initial view other people take and people with your original view can vote to curate those counter-arguments.
    - **Category**: Education/Social
    - **Mobile**: Mobile-First, Push when people interact with your content.
    - **Market**: Could be used in schools or by any individual. Could be expanded beyond politics.
    - **Habit**: People are checking the app constantly to read counter-argument responses to their posts or view votes on your posts. 
    - **Scope**: Would be possible to build. Simplified version would be far less interesting.

4. Tenant finder
   - **Description**: An app for landlords to find tenants or for rentors to find roommates. Features would include home maintenance, tracking payments, safety regulation, contacting the tenant or landlord
   - **Category**: Social/Productivity
   - **Mobile**: Push notifications/alerts
   - **Market**: For people who manage several properties and need to keep track of them or peope looking to rent and have more communication between the landlord
   - **Habit**: Tenants will frequently check for new offers and landlords will check on potential tenant profiles.
   - **Scope**: Would be possible to build with less features, adding on payments and safety regulation would make it difficult


5. Online Ninja
   - **Description**: Face against other people with our camera and try to knock out their avatar. Uses the camera to map the human body to a character. Dodge your opponent’s attack their turn and try to hit their arm your turn. The one who loses both arms loses!
   - **Category**: Entertainment
   - **Mobile**: Uses the camera 
   - **Market**: Young adults that enjoy Ninja. Young adults that enjoy playing Ninja will love this app.
   - **Habit**: Ranking system
   - **Scope**: The app scope will require camera AR and virtual mapping to calculate the hits/actions.

## Top 3 New App Ideas
Natasha's top 3
- Common ground finding app
- Twitter/Meme/tiktok app with forced interaction via Tinder-eque controls for navigating content
- Objective Workout Calculator - Shows recommended diets and workouts for a specific body goal based on user fitness level and progression. Scope will include calisthenics, crossfit, weightlifting, gymnastics, yoga, and sports

Moe's top 5
- Tenant Finder
- Force interaction tinder-esque app
- Online Ninja
- OWC
- Textbook selling/buying

Matt's top 5 
- forced interaction app
- objective workout calculator
- common ground app
- political connector app
- Tenant finder

## Favorite Apps
- Instagram
- Reddit
- Pinterest
- Venmo
- Messenger
- Youtube
- Webtoon
- Google Tasks
- LinkedIn
- Snapchat

## Top 3 Favorite Apps

### Instagram
   - **Category:** Social/Entertainment
   - **Mobile:** Instagram allows users to post photos or videos they record. Can use location when posting. Get realtime pushes for messages or when people interact with content.
   - **Story:** The audience highly values Instagram. Users can share snippets of their life modified with filters temporarily in a story or permanently on a post. Friends and peers love using this app.
   - **Market:** Anyone with a phone that can take pictures and an unfiltered internet connection. This app provides a lot of value to most young adults.
   - **Habit:** An average user will open this app multiple times in a day- to consume. Average users create less frequently but stories encourage more frequent and candid posting.
   - **Scope:** This app is technically challenging, the camera tools are complicated. A slimmed down version of this app would be possible but less interesting to build. This product is clearly defined.

### Youtube
   - **Category:** Entertainment
   - **Mobile:** Allows users to view, upload, stream, and edit videos. Cannot post photos for content or camera. Listening to music offline is possible. You can also download videos on mobile devices.
   - **Story:** Started as a simple application where users could share video content. The platform blew up in popularity from the creativity of its creators and became a global part of daily life
   - **Market:** Mainstream media, content creators, and any demographic looking for enterainment
   - **Habit:** Creators will upload content periodically while an average user will spend extended sessions on the app.
   - **Scope:** This app is technically complicated will all the features it has. A slimmed down version would be possible.

### Snapchat
   - **Category:** Social/Entertainment/Photo & Video
   - **Mobile:** Allows users to post photos and videos using the camera. Users can share their location. Users get push notification
   - **Story:** This app is valuable to many people as it is a method of communication for some and allows users to stay connected
   - **Market:** The target market is young adults
   - **Habit:** Users can view and post stories where the user posts quick videos and posts. It has both entertainment and functional needs. 
   - **Scope:** This app is very technically complicated with all the security and encryption features it has. A slimmed down version would be possible.

## New App Idea - List
1. Twitter/Meme/tiktok app with forced interaction via Tinder-eque controls for navigating content - Matt
2. P2P video conferencing app using JS and WebRTC - Matt
3. Subscription organization app. - Natasha
4. Tenant finder. Allow landlords to find potential tenants. - Natasha
5. Social goal sharing app. - Natasha
6. Money lending manager. - Natasha
7. App for finding team members for a projet. - Natasha
8. Food Microcosm: Share cultural recipes for food and the science behind it. Allows users to filter through recipes by culture and ethnic background while allowing verified members to inform the public on the science behind it. - Moe
9. Essay writing app - Natasha
10. - Grounded: A Common Ground Finder: Discussion app for people to pick a topic then find a stance as curated by other people. Once you've picked a stance you view counter-arguments that other people have curated- in a forum style. After viewing counter-arguments you can create counter arguments for the initial view other people take and people with your original view can vote to curate those counter-arguments. - Matt
11. Book recommendation app - Natasha
12. Spending tracker - Natasha
13. Recipes by ingredients - Natasha
14. Gift App - Natasha
15. Note sharing
16. Expiration date tracker
17. Personal CRM
18. Marketplace for furniture near college campuses
19. Politiface/WeThePeople: Connect constituents to politicians and candidates. Provide a place for people to ask questions and upvote other questions/issues they want addressed. Politicians post things they're thinking about and can poll people directly from the app. - Matt
20. Textbook selling/buying app (develop independently and sell to coursera) - Matt
21. College utility application; one-stop shop for calendars, plans, events, and scholarships - Moe
22. Simplified Data modeling app for mobile devices. Edit, transpose, and share data on your device! - Moe
23. Free, high-level PDF scanning app - Moe
24. Multi-language OCR scanner - Moe
25. Coding IDE for kids to learn coding practices - Moe
26. Math RPG where math equations are used as abilities and must be solved to defeat enemies - Moe
27. Voice Transmutator - Edits voice to different qualities for music and memes - Moe
28. MemeLord - An app where meme communities unite and spread their memes as a competition. Algorithm will support new and easily viral meme content - Moe
29. Objective Workout Calculator - Shows recommended diets and workouts for a specific body goal based on user fitness level and progression. Scope will include calisthenics, crossfit, weightlifting, gymnastics, yoga, and sports - Moe
30. Online Ninja - Face against other people with our camera and try to knock out their avatar. Uses the camera to map the human body to a character. Dodge your opponent's attack their turn and try to hit their arm your turn. The one who loses both arms loses! - Moe

