Proposal
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What problem does your app solve? Have you ever tried to keep your children on task to complete their chores? Have you heard the children claim they can’t put that away because they don’t know where it goes? HomeChoreTracker allows you to assign chores to children and track whether or not the task was completed.
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Be as specific as possible; how does your app solve the problem?
- Gamifies the experience to encourage the children to complete their chores.
- Assigns points to reward the children to keep them on task and encourage them to complete more tasks.
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What is the mission statement?
Enable children to keep track of their chores. Allows parents to visualize their child’s completed chores and award “reward” points based on completed tasks to keep them on track.
Features
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What features are required for your minimum viable product? Authenticated Parents can track children. Authenticated Children can log in and see a list of tasks and complete and check off tasks completed. Children can view chores completed and accumulated reward points.
- What features may you wish to put in a future release? Augmented Reality to show children where that object “belongs” Randomization to assign chores randomly to ensure fairness of tasks assigned. Push notifications and Accesibility modifications to assist special needs individuals.
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What do the top 3 similar apps do for their users Awards money based on completed chores. Implements tracking with a chart. Implements “Wheel of fortune” approach to assign random tasks.
Design - Planning
What design system will you use?
- Figma design document.
What will your User Flow be? Sign In/ Sign Up assign tasks, add children to “family” account. Marks tasks complete. Reward points based on point value assigned to task.
Frameworks - Libraries
- What 3rd party frameworks are you considering using?
React, material-ui, styled-components, Express - Knex -
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Do APIs require you to contact its maintainer to gain access?
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Are you required to pay to use the API? No
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Have you considered using Apple Frameworks? URLSession and CoreData.
Target Audience
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Who is your target audience? Be specific. -Children and parents of children
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What feedback have you gotten from potential users?
- They think this will be an excellent application to keep their children on point and on task.
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Have you validated the problem and your solution with your target audience? How?
Research
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Research thoroughly before writing a single line of code. Solidify the features of your app conceptually before implementation. Spend the weekend researching so you can hit the ground running on Monday. Prototype Key Feature(s)
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This is the “bread and butter” of the app, this is what makes your app yours. Calculate how long it takes to implement these features and triple the time estimated. That way you’ll have plenty of time to finish. It is preferred to drop features and spend more time working on your MVP features if needed.