Bumerang - milestone 1

Milestone 1 presentation by students at the Startup Programming course 2016 at University of Victoria.

1. Someone’s got you covered!
2. Feature List Requests Working endpoints Client side support for UI and sending a request Match making Responses Database work Notifications Profile Authenticating with Facebook Pulling information from User’s Facebook Profile Editing and adding information to the profile Sending/receiving data to our server
3. Workflow Android Brady: UI development, Facebook authentication, App flow Conner: Chat, Analytics, GPS research and implementation. Daniel: Facebook integration, profile page Mavis: UI development, logo and branding Charlotte: Client-server API Charlotte: TravisCI, Heroku, Tornado Endpoints Tyler: Heroku, Tornado Endpoints, Application structure
4. Roadmap - Database: Implement and connect to app. -Beta - Karma System: Game-ify to incentivize lending and let other users know you are reliable -Beta - Notifications: Users receive push notification when another user requests the item. -Beta - Matchmaking: User would only see requests within their area. This uses the phone’s GPS and simply calculates the distance between them. -Beta - Chat: Once users are connected an in-app chat will be set
5. Idea Validation -Marketplace: Creating a “gift marketplace” which has successfully been done before by Rooster and Musketeer. ”When individuals commit acts of personal generosity it sparks a gift culture that replenishes a store of trust” Cold start Issue: Target tightknit, dense communities -e.g University Campuses. UVic Campus for example has approximately 20,000 people Monday-Friday in a 300m radius. People can log in and have an experience for 10 seconds.
6. -Motivation for users to lend / borrow. -Gain Karma for logging in to app and just looking at other people’s requests = instant gratification -Receive a lot of Karma when lend an item and a little bit when borrow and return on time. -Lose karma if don’t return items on time. -Achievements / badges for meeting different goals e.g lending out items to 5 different people or lending something for the whole day.
7. Thank you for listening!