Week of 18th March – Initial Ideas + Tutorial
When in the Monday’s lecture I was highly inspired with different routes I could go down, whether that will include cultural, social, political, technological or environmental element is up to me. Immediately had some ideas and noted many simple concepts down. Some of these include;
- blocking people at certain times from contacting you
- tracking your social media profile and who looks at it
- temporarily removes all cookies from your phone (10/20 minute intervals)
- the graphic designer app
- the pointless games – pen clicker/ fidget spinner/ hot wheels/ ect.
- Dad joke central
- locking apps – staying in/ keeping out
- fake 6 pack in 30 days
I decided I needed to research into these ideas and see whether they are in the market already. To do this I simply got my smart phone and opened google play store and began to search for the different existing apps. Through this I started making larger decisions and cutting them down. This included whether they exist, if they are possible or whether I would find it interesting to create and research into.
I immediately removed the thought of tracking someone online as this would have to be dealt with sensitivity and I feel I couldn’t take it as far as I want to go. With removing all previous cookies, this is essentially going back to software basics and the day you got your own smart device, which in theory might seem great but I feel the general public does not want it. Moving forward, the pointless mind numbing games are out there and has a wide range of types existing it will be very difficult to find a niche market or something that hasn’t already been done a million times. This all is the same with the dad joke idea.
Along with this the locking app will need to be marketed differently as some already exist. These include locking certain pictures or blocking you messaging people at certain times. The market I was thinking about which is different to whats out there is teens and young adults that pass their own phones around to their friends and be really jokey. These phone owners might not want their friends to message certain people, so the app can have a finger print scanner or use a builtin one.
The last two ideas I did a little more research on as I thought they were better than some others. The first I looked into was the designer app. There is so much out there saying each one is the best and you should get their app. The set up of each app is fairly similar with 4 or 5 presets that you can adapt and personalise to what you want; these include flyers, posters, business cards ect. Once you have created the design you can download it to your phone to share. The money is made from a few different ways; some of the apps you have to pay to download the app, others you have to pay to download the design and some are free with adds.
The final idea I researched into was the 6 pack in 30 days. So may of these exist and have a very specific target market for each app. These include men from 18 to 24 years wanting a perfect body, a woman wanted to lose a few pounds around the stomach area and so on. The way I want to go is have it as a joke where the users don’t have to actually lose the weight it is just on their own screens. This has not been done but I can see the potential users out there through scrolling through the comments. On the “splits in 30 days” app there are a few funny comments saying things similar to what happens if i cant do the splits in 30 days, do I restart the whole app? and other comments mocking the app in a sarcastic tone.
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