Friday, November 1, 2019

19A – Idea Napkin No. 2


    
        I am a UF online student who still has not graduate. My talent lies in having skill learning new concept, being able to leave good impression with people I met and being able to come up with creative solution. I have some basic technical skill when it comes to computer, an while I would not be able to create a program from scratch. I can do thing like designing a website. I also have some financial and mathematical skill from courses I taken from UF. I feel like starting this business would take a lot of time and effort from my part, as I would have to gather basic level funding on my own to pay from programmer for the basic program or take my programming class to do it myself. I feel I would wait to graduate before starting it, but once that happen, I would dedicate one half of my time looking for work and another half progressing on this project. I would do this until I get to the phase where I get publisher, where I feel I could take the large risk of working full time on finalizing the app program
      
       My app offers a tool to mainly help people better focus on their class and push them to be able to perform their best in their online classes. This is done by creating app that help guide student to work in a more diligently in their online class. This is done by two main way, the first being serving as calendar alarm for due assignment for online classes. This will prevent due date of assignment catching up to them unprepared and forcing them to rush those assignment. Not having study enough before an exam. The second aspect will be system that lock down distraction coming from a person computer and phone. This aspect reinforces the first aspect, as people could reminded of due date but could still be distracted by the internet and social media, when they trying to work. So, having a program that shut down those distraction during work time
My main customer will be mainly people just starting out doing online class for the first time. Another possible customer base will be those who have procrastinating problem, doing their online class.  For the first customer base they will be attracted to this app due to them most likely having done physical class all their life, at such app that force strict schedule like how physical classes due will help them adjust do well in their class. Their will be exception to this of course like people who have been home schooled, but they will be statistically minority. The second customer base will be people that have been having problem with their online class due to procrastination and other problem. Even though this app idea came to me to help the second customer base, which I mean those who are having problem with their online class. This customer base I felt though would be much smaller in number in general and has chance of having personality that those not desired to improve themselves

         I feel like people would be willing to pay for this app, as people have paid for less specialize app of this type like “forest”. Of course, that is app is more limited than my idea due to only looking down your phone and not setting up alarm based on UF class due date. Also, along with the base price of the app, I do not now, if should do It theme based like forest and give random digital goods to represent their progress that can be gain through repeated use of app or purchase with real money. For now, that I would prefer to do a one-time payment, but depending on how costly this project is other mean of making money to be able to make a profit out of this idea

        I feel like I am ideal for this job, due to being someone who desired to change the situation I am and to find way to improve my work ethic, when it come to my online class. Along with having and currently experience online class make me able to understand the customer base. This give me insight on how they might think about this app. I am also bilingual with my first language I ever learn have been Spanish. This mean I can communicate with customer base, who only speak Spanish. Along with being positioned to spread this app to Spanish speaking market. I also some who like to research a lot of thing and read comment about the same topic in different media site to see many different perspectives. At such I would able to look how different type of people are reacting to my app.

       I general I feel like I have good idea on my skills and what type app I want to propose as my business idea. I also have a good idea on my customer base in term of which people will be interested in my product. Though I am unsure of the size of my customer base since the thing that I have analysis have been based on more general app. Also due to my app having more feature I am sure on how it should be prize compare to those app. Especially due to those app having another payment model than just the one time purchase they already have due to the theme they used. I feel like have good idea on what aspect of the job of producing this app I could do on my own and what type I think I would need outside help. I overall need to think about how large by customer base would be and what would be the ideal price model to best serve their need.

       I have not received any feedback to be able to modify my napkin. But thing I feel from rereading my work that I could improve on would be adding more payment model like subscription-based model. Look for more unique trait I have for the last section. As while those traits do differ me from a lot people, it still hard to say if am truly unique. Also looking up more specific data customer base for the general app I talked about before would be help. As while their customer base would be much larger due to being design for general used, it would help give some ballpark number for the size for my customer base.

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