- My product has to do with the need to know if a location has adequate, available study space before an individual arrives at said location. This product will allow students to see how many seats are available at certain locations.
- Some of you may have experienced the frustration of arriving at a location to study or work, only to find that there are no available seats.
- There are a few versions of this idea:
- Mobile phone app maintained by users: With this version, students will be responsible for checking in and out of their specific seat within the app.
- Mobile phone app maintained by users: With this version, students will be responsible for checking in and out of their specific seat by clicking a button that is connected to the chair and signals to the app that the seat is open/vacant.
- Mobile phone app maintained by workers: The workers at the locations supported by this app (i.e. various coffee shops and libraries) would be responsible for updating the app about every 15 minutes as people leave and enter the location.
- I want to have a product that can be sold to universities and coffee shops/popular study spaces. Ideally, the university would purchase a package that covers not only on-campus libraries, but also popular study spots outside of campus like coffee shops. If the university only purchases the product for the campus, I could market separately to coffee shops.
- This would be of interest to universities because they could offer another perk to students making them even more competitive against other universities. The coffee shops would be interested in purchasing because if students knew they had open seating, they would be more likely to use their shop and bring in business.
Julianna,
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of package for universities. The locations should also be available for outside areas. There should be more locations. Different themes that are suited for each person's personality and disabilities. Hopefully something like this will be available even for online students. We only have Starbucks, public library or Barnes and Noble. Maybe have areas that all students can have access to.
Hey Julianna,
ReplyDeleteI think this is a really interesting idea. I can definitely relate with going to the library and not having study spaces available. Being able to stay in the know about which are occupied and which are vacant would save a lot of time and energy for tons of people. Great job!
Julianna,
ReplyDeleteI was most interested in the three different possibilities for maintenance of your app. I think this is a fantastic idea, but I think maybe a hybrid of the 1st and 3rd methods would be best. It would be great to have a 3rd party doing maintenance, but they may get busy or have to complete a different task. So, then users would have the ability to claim/unclaim the spaces. Fantastic idea, though. I hope something like this gets implemented soon!