While trying to complete this project I had this wacky idea.
Consider you have a small business, like a pharmacy, or a pizzeria, and you want to start doing home deliveries. Now, you two options you either have someone taking those orders or you have to take them yourself.
Either way, it's one resource you're using to do that. It's a great idea, you think, but this resource costs money; and we all know that nowdays money is not the most abundant resource.
That's where my ida comes in, what if you have a service that takes care of that for you. Say, a mobile app, that takes a customer order (answering machine way), confirms it and sends an sms to you with the
said order? This would automate the process, saving a lot of money to a business. Also, Imagine how cool would it be saying to a customer "You want to order from home? Download our app!"
There are some problems that arise with this approach. First of all, there's no single serving. Each business has it's own necessities. So, there's not single solution that solves all problems, which means we would be selling a
service rather than a product. But it is actually a service that turns into a product. To understand the client necessities, and to turn those necessities into an app.
You understand where I'm at?
Because there was no solution to every problem, I thought about excluding this idea from the challenge, but that wouldn't be fair, actually, I really wanted to start working on this one.
I started thinking and sketching and I understood that this app would have 3 fundamental stages: Starting an interaction, recording the interaction results, send the results of the interaction. So, from the top of my head I
would be needing Speech-To-Text, Text-To-Speech and SMS sending.
With this in mind I started developing a prototype. And it went pretty good. Check out the screenshot below:
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(Actually there's a connection problem in that screen ;)
I will consider this as half of a product, so at this moment I consider myself 2.5 products in ;)
What about the other 0.5?
Well, something like this needs a different approach, if I want to provide a service and not a product which you can launch and provide support on weekend, I need to have a plan, I need a way to get traction, a different way to
market it; a totally different approach. I am willing to take this jump, onbviously this will not happen in two or three days, but I will work on this idea and bring you some results soon.
P.S - I will provide the installer for the prototype I developed, so you can see for yourself what my idea is and where I am going with this.
P.S - I also have a fancy name for it, but I will not reveal it yet, I might want to buy that domain and I don't want anybody to get there faster than me ;)
