Brainstorm! Each group member should record 3+ new app ideas in the HackMD, including a brief description of each idea.
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Self-hosted apps
- Pick something from the list that has wide appeal
- easy to access api docs
- Ideally without an android client already
- https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
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Easyappointments
- Build a android app that supports as many of the web api endpoints as possible
- https://developers.easyappointments.org/api/
- https://easyappointments.org/
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Workout Manager
- The Workout Manager mobile app is a fitness application designed to help users plan and manage their workouts. The Workout Manager mobile app is a fitness application designed to help users plan and manage their workouts.
- https://wger.de/en/software/api
- https://wger.de/en/software/features
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Street Pothole Tracker
- Allows users to take pictures of potholes in streets and upload them to a feed in real-time(maybe other information). Other users can view the locations and react? comment?? APIS: Google Maps, OpenMap?
- https://developers.google.com/maps/
- https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API
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Pet Shelter App
- Allows users to search pets at locations to determine available nearby pets. Users can create a list to add pets, favorite?.
- https://www.adoptapet.com/public/apis/pet_list.html
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Nutritional App
- Calls api to populate information on various food. Can create lists, take pictures?, reviews?, recipes??.
- https://www.nutritionix.com/business/api
- Sustainable Shopping Guide
- An app that helps users make more sustainable choices while shopping by providing information about eco-friendly products, sustainable brands, and responsible manufcturing practices.
- https://openfoodfacts.github.io/api-documentation/
- https://research.ethicalconsumer.org/corporate-research-database
- Climate Footprint Calculator
- An app that allows users to calculate their carbon footprint based on their daily habits, including transportation, food consumption, and energy usage.
- https://openchargemap.org/site/develop#api
- https://www.walkscore.com/professional/walk-score-apis.php
- Hearing Aid
- A mobile app that provides personalized hearing assistance to those with hearing impairments. The app could use the phone's microphone to pick up and amplify sounds, adjust EQ settings for different environments, and provide voice-to-text transcription for phone calls.
- https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/reference/rest
- https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/speech-to-text
- Workout Manager
- Category: Health and Fitness
- Mobile: Mobile is essential for posting, easy creation of lists, and camera use. Users will be able to take photos when exercising or at the gym and post to their feed.
- Keywords: Camera Support, Usability at the gym, casual, easy-to-use
- Story: Helps users to log their fitness information by compartmentalizing exercise and nutrition data into lists. With stretch features implemented the app becomes a social hub for those exercising by allowing users to see recent creations and messaging.
- Market: Per Statista.com, it was forecasted that there would be 86.3 million users of health or fitness apps in the United States. In 2019, there were 68.7 million smartphone owners that used at least one health or fitness app. Therefore, this app is targeted towards any Android smartphone owner that is interested in a fitness and wellbeing app.
- Habit: As the user continues to create lists and post images, the app can serve as a reminder of their fitness journey. With stretch features, users would be able to see other users' posts and chat with fellow fitness enthusiasts. Serving as a social app would be conducive to having users checking in the app more frequently.
- Scope: V1 will allow users to create accounts and create lists for exercises and nutrition. They will be able to use the camera app to take pictures. V2 and beyond would be stretch feature implementations. V2 would allow users to start seeing other users posts on their feed and allowing interactions with emojis. It would also move the main feed for displaying the user information to a separate profile feed. V3 would incorporate messaging between users.
- Pet Shelter App
- Description: A pet shelter app that connects animal lovers with nearby animal shelters, allowing users to search for pets available for adoption and create a list of favorite pets.
- Category: Lifestyle and Social Networking
- Story: As an animal lover, I want to easily search for pets available for adoption at nearby animal shelters so that I can find the perfect pet to adopt and provide a loving home for.
- Market: The target market for this app includes animal lovers, pet owners, and anyone interested in adopting a pet from an animal shelter. It also caters to animal shelters, rescues, and organizations looking to increase adoptions and promote their pets.
- Habit: Users are expected to use this app on a daily or weekly basis to search for and browse pets, create a list of favorite pets, and contact animal shelters to adopt pets.
- Scope: V1 will allows users to search for nearby animal shelters using location-based services. V2 will allows usuers to create a list of favorite pets to save for later and share with others. V3 will allows users to share pet profiles on social media platforms to promote adoptions and increase visibility for the pets in need.
- Sustainable Shopping Guide
- Description: The Sustainable Shopping Guide is a mobile app that provides userss with information about eco-friendly products, sustainable brands, and responsible manufacturing practices, helping users make more sustainable choices while shopping.
- Category: Shopping, Lifestyle, Sustainability
- Story: As awareness of climate change and environmental issues grows, more and more consumers are looking for ways to make more sustainable choices in their daily lives. However, it can be challenging to navigate the complex world of sustainability and know which products and brands are truly eco-friendly and socially responsible. The Sustainable Shopping Guide aims to address this challenge by providing users with the information they need to make more informed and sustainable choices while shopping.
- Market: The Sustainable Shopping Guide targets consumers who are interested in sustainability and eco-friendly products. This includes individuals who prioritize sustainable and ethical practices when making purchasing decisions and are willing to pay more for products that align with their values. The market for sustainable products is growing, and there is a demand for tools that can help consumers make more sustainable choices.
- Habit: The Sustainable Shopping Guide aims to become a habit for users by providing them with an easy-to-use and accessible resource for sustainable shopping. The app can be used both in-store and online, and users can save their favorite brands and products for future reference. By integrating sustainable shopping into users' daily routines, the app aims to promote long-term behavior change and help users make more sustainable choices over time.
- Scope: V1 Providing users with information about eco-friendly products, sustainable brands, and responsible manufacturing practices. V2 search function, a favorites list, and social sharing to make it easy for users to find and save information about sustainable products and share their findings with others.
- 🏆 Winner is Tobi's idea
- The Workout Manager helps users plan and manage their workouts.
- App name is FlexBody