Wouldn’t it be cool if: Week 2
Well, I didn’t think I’d make it to week 2, but let’s be real. This brain here is just a gold mine of excellent ideas.
Vacabot
I dunno about the name, but I’d consider using this app. The idea is you plug in how many weeks of vacation you want to use. So if you’re given 4 weeks annually, and you want to spend 1 week with family at holidays, then just input 3 weeks. But the app taps into your social profiles or you give it some insight into who you are and what you like. Then the app finds festivals, concerts, or landmarks and other points of interests that fit you and suggests them as vacation spots. From common trends, you can guess when the cheapest flight will be and recommend when people should buy their flights/book hotels/etc. You could also take in a travel budget.
The issues here are that you’re targeting a smaller vacation market if you just do airlines, but I think the revenue could come from selling tickets to concerts or possibly getting hotels/car rental services on board as recommendations. Get good deals for your users and make some money. There’s lots more in this idea I think.
Social Mom
Everyone’s worst nightmare is totally having their parents embarrass them in public. With this you plug up and start using social media. The app will track what you say and see and analyze the tone to infer your mood or emotional state. If all of your posts are in ALL CAPS. Then either the caps key is broken on your phone/computer, or you’re pretty angry about alot of things right now. If you are frequently using a crying emoji you’re probably sad. If the content of your posts is generally excited and has exclamation points, you’re happy. Then mom keeps your mom posted on how you’re doing.
You’ll run into alot of backlash from people who don’t want their social media read. Also, this is kind of a big brother scenario where if the government isn’t already doing this, they will. Sooooo social big brother probably won’t ever happen. But it could be useful for at-risk teens or for parents to try and get an idea of what their children are feeling. Really the idea stemmed from a desire to analyze angry tweets and spread them out a little more across your newsfeed to minimize the impact.
Bike me
Just an alarm clock app that checks the weather. Then it tells you if you should walk/bike to work the next day to cut down on emissions. For the morning people, it could even just silently move up your alarm if you already went to bed and the app thinks you should walk/bike to work.
The flaws here are that it targets people whose commutes are relatively short. It’s only 1–4 miles to work and they live in an area where biking to work is reasonable. But an alternative I just came up with is a B2B app where companies invite employees to input their home address and usual arrival time and it matches people for carpooling. That would be pretty nifty. I’m gonna go tweet that one now.
Well those are my favorite ideas from week 2. Let me know if you’ve got better ones :P. Thanks.
