Mobile App Dev - App Brainstorming Example
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## Favorite Existing Apps - List
1. Tiktok
2. Snapchat
3. Clash of Clans

## Favorite Existing Apps - Categorize and Evaluate

### Tiktok
- **Category:** Video / Social
- **Mobile:** Uses camera, mobile first experience.
- **Story & Posts:** Allows users to share their content with in short videos.
- **Market:** Anyone that either enjoys making short videos or watching other creator's videos can enjoy the app. Ability to follow creators with the which allows users with unique interests to engage with relevant content.
- **Habit:** Users can post as many videos throughout the day. Users can explore new trends, sounds, and ideas.
- **Scope:** Tiktok has started out as a video focused platform and is an outlet to express themselves and allows users to create videos and share them across a community.

### Snapchat
- **Category:** Photo & Video / Social
- **Mobile:** Website has chat only functionality (no stories), uses camera, mobile first experience.
- **Story & Direct Messages:** Allows users to share their lives in pictures, short videos, and optionally enhance their content with filters.
- **Market:** Anyone that takes pictures could enjoy this app. Allows its users to customize their content however they please, right in the app. Users can add text, filters, draw their own images, use geofilters and utilize any of the emojis that their phone's keyboard traditionally allows.
- **Habit:** Users can post on their stories throughout the day. The "Stories" encourages more candid posting. The "Streaks" feature between friends encourages users to snap friends daily. Very habbit forming!
- **Scope:** Snapchat started out as an app that users could send photos that disappear after a certain amount of time. This has expanded to new features like stories to share more candid posts to a larger groups. Features like streaks encourage constant posting. Geofilters and snap maps have been used to help connect users from local areas.

### Clash of Clans
- **Category:** Gaming
- **Mobile:** App that contains searching functionality when finding players, clans, and clan wars, mobile first experience, and a chat feature to chat with your clan
- **Story:** Allows users to build and upgrade their village and work with clanmates to win wars and participate in clan games
- **Market:** Anyone that loves strategy, worldbuilding, and collaborative games.
- **Habit:** Users build their own village by raiding other players for loot to upgrade troops and defenses. Users can also join clans to participate in clan wars and clan games to help progress faster.
- **Scope:** Clash of Clans first came out in 2012 and there were only 8 Townhalls at the time. As more players joined the game, more townhalls, troops, defenses, and more features are being added into the game. Currently, the Dev team is working on Townhall 15 and Builder Base updates

## New App Ideas - List
1. Ludo
- Allows users to play a board game with their friends. Each player has 4 pieces and the goal is to beat your opponents and reach your home base first. Providing a mobile app can help bring more popularity to the game as it is most famous in India and Pakistan. The game is not well known internationally.
2. Social Media App using VR Tech
- Allows users to interact with live videos and interactions with games and virtual reality. Would be a good oppurtunity for buisnesses to create virtual set ups for live trials for the products.
3. Fitness / Health App
- Keep track of your fitness journey leading to your ideal physique and health.
4. Parking Space Finder
- The app can use GPS, webcams, location, and real-time data to help users find parking spaces whenever they want.

## Top 3 New App Ideas
1. Ludo
2. Social Media App using VR Tech
3. Fitness / Health App

## New App Ideas - Evaluate and Categorize
1. Ludo
- **Description**: Originally a board game. Popular in India and Pakistan. Can have up to 2-4 players. Each player has 4 pieces and the goal is to beat your opponents and reach your home base first. To move around the board, a pair of 6-sided dice are used.
- **Category:** Gaming
- **Mobile:** Mobile is essential for portability and to help popularize the game internationally.
- **Story:** Players move around the game board using dice. There are some safe spots where the player's pieces cannot be touched. If a player beats another player's piece, they are able to go into their home base. To create a game, a user can generate a game code that can be shared to their friends.
- **Market:** Any user who loves playing games with their friends. Multiplayer game.
- **Habit:** Players can play the game anytime with their friends.
- **Scope:** Ludo is a fun game to play but not many know about the game. Having a tutorial section would help players not familiar with the game learn the rules. Players can generate a game code to share to their friends to create a game. Once players join the game, they can start playing.

2. Social Media App using VR Tech
- **Description**: Allows users to interact with live videos and interactions with games and virtual reality. Would be a good oppurtunity for buisnesses to create virtual set ups for live trials for the products.
- **Category:** Social Media
- **Mobile:** Mobile is essential for using the app to reach a wide variety of people. The camera is used to for the VR technology.
- **Story:** Uses the new generation of technology to create more interactive relationships with the users,
- **Market:** Any user or buisness who wants to uses virtual reality for gaming, product promotion, or interaction with friends.
- **Habit:** Users can join from around the world at any point, allowing for interactions with many groups of people.
- **Scope:** VR tech would be an innovative app that encourages new ideas of interaction in the virtual setting.