# Mobile App Dev - App Brainstorming

- Notion
- Spotify
- Youtube
- ________
- _______

## Favorite Existing Apps - List
**Notion**
- **Category:** Planner/Project Management
- **Mobile:** both web, desktop and mobile app
- **Story:** enable users to build personal scheduel planner, manage group projects/workflow, taking notes, etc.
- **Market:** personal use, enterprise uses in industry that require group projects..
- **Habit:** users can use it as planner and notetaking app; also ideal for collaborate project and tracking workflow support different view like table, calender, list..
- **Scope:** users can have a digital planner as they goes, very convenient to make changes anytime with phones. very felxible and customizible view.

**Spotify**
- **Category:** Entertainment/Music Streaming
- **Mobile:** primarily used on mobile, macOS apps, web browser, IoT(amazon devices, smart fridges, )
- **Story:** Allows users to stream music at any given moment
- **Market:** Anyone who enjoys music and would like to listen music everywhere they bring their phone. App allows to have an enourmous music library without physically buying records or buying specific songs(CONVENIANCE).
- **Habit:** Mostly everyone can listen to music at any given time or during any task like excercising, homework, chores, cooking, showering, or vibing.
- **Scope:** Used daily by all people

**Tiktok**
- **Category:** Video/Social Media
- **Mobile:** Integrated video creating software makes creating videos in the app very easy. App is designed with scrolling/swiping in mind.
- **Story:** Allows users to create and watch short videos from everything from how Burger King burgers are made to funny cat videos
- **Market:** Anyone who enjoys watching videos. The Tiktok algorithm is able to find videos that are relevant and interesting to every user.
- **Habit:** While the videos themselves are short, they add up. A user might watch 20-30 videos and suddenly half an hour has gone by! Users are incentivized to check in daily, as their favorite content creators might have uploaded something new, or they want to see what new videos are in their feed.
- **Scope:** Tiktok's scope seems pretty narrow, but it is expanding. They are adding new features to group/catagorize/share videos.

**Chase Mobile App**
- **Category:** Financial
- **Mobile:** Primary use on Iphones app, android apps.
- **Story:** Lets the user keep track of their balance and spending.
- **Market**:Anyone who likes to check their account balance, credit card balance or be able to make a meeting with their bank just through the app. They are even allowed to apply for new cards or check the special offers.

## New App Ideas - List
1. Recipe and Cooking App
- Integrated delivery from grocery store for recipes that interest you
- Allows users to search recipe and buy ingredient delievry to home all at once

2. Upgraded Tennis Pal App
- More local integration, users can input or select courts near them
- Users can put in courts
- Can update if courts or filled or not
- Maybe expand to more sports

3. UCSB Amenities App
- Shows users study spaces that are currently available
- Can list available resources at study spaces, such as hydration stations, outlets, wifi, etc.
- Users could be able to rate study spaces and leave reviews about the resources
- Daily recommendation app feature? For food, recreation, etc.
- Yelp doesn't do a good job of showing the strengths of a restaurant

4. Schedule builder app
- put in intended classes and shows you if your schedule has any conflicts, can also show you alternative schedules you can have with different professors

5. Relevant resources app
- Users can upload links to videos, websites, and other resources for courses at UCSB

6. Daily activity/habit tracker
- Users can add habits
- When users complete the habit, they can press a button to increase the counter
- Maybe a time tracking feature
- Maybe Voice recognition for start/stop