Venuit, Pactive, OverHere
A brief summary of each app:
1. Venuit
- Given that I am a person who has friends living all over the Bay Area
- When I want to plan a meeting with my friends
- Then I should I have an app that:
- Leverages Yelp Search so a variety of activities are suggested
- Knows where my friends and I typically are throughout the day so suggested activity locations minimize average travel time
- Allows my friends and I to vote on suggested results so group text conversation is less chaotic
2. Pactive
- Given that I am an individual looking to maintain a gym routine
- When I have trouble finding motivation to go to the gym
- Then I should have an app that:
- Implements a reward system so I am incentivized to go to the gym
- Allows me to log my physical activity so I can track growth and progress
- Proposes new workouts to maintain exercise habits so I don’t get bored
See: PocketPoints, SweatCoin
3. OverHere
- Given that I am an individual traveling with a group
- When the group would like to temporarily split to pursue different interests
- Then I should have an app that:
- Quickly and noninvasively sets up a location tracking session so users are not concerned about privacy violations
- Allows me to see the general location of each individual in the group on a map so I can navigate to them
- Allows me to hide my location so I maintain control over being tracked
Takeaways
I was essentially running with nowhere to go. I lost focus and wasted energy implementing features that were superfluous and out of scope.
I worked on these projects throughout my junior and senior year of college. Looking back on the code written, results achieved, and lessons learned, I would say I was drifting between unconscious and conscious incompetence.
I should have completed Given-When-Then-So’s to obtain a definition of done or a Lean Model Canvas to scope out a definition of success.
I should have had an inflection point two weeks into each project to determine if I was building a product or having fun with new technologies. Flip-flop mentality clouds judgement.