Book2man week 1
Research
I primarily conducted interviews with students. I wanted to understand the problems these people had about reading physical books. I concluded that they can be split into two factions.
1.Financially sound
This exists for everyone that wants to read physical books but can’t get access to because
No time
Book out of stock
Don’t know what book to get? This is one that didn’t come up at all, but just my observation
Out of these three main issues the only one I could possible tackle is don’t know what book to get, I had ideas for time and book out of stock which was to combine this into a book selling app, that can ship fast and that has book summaries built into it, I checked indigo and you get a brief summary but I was thinking of incorporating a whole video or voice clips to help them be sure of the book.
2.Financially unsound
This is the main demographic I am targeting with this platform, I’ve been to lots of houses where they have lots of books sitting on the bookshelves, already read. Essentially a waste of space. Me and my friends started this book club sort of thing where we would trade books. It never got to completion the basic idea was that we wouldn’t have to spend 20-30 bucks a book, reading around a book a week. That would be 80-120 bucks on 4 books that you won’t read again/ maybe like. If you buy a second hand book, and along as you don’t destroy the book you can sell it for that price usually. Essentially reading as many books as you want for free.
After cornering the problem from
I don't have the accessibility to buy a physical book ->
I don't have enough money to buy a physical book.
This propelled me to make my platform where people can buy and sell used books.
What did I get done?
I got the foundation of everything I wanted. It has the core functionality of the App,
Create books to sell
See books to sell
I even got some basic data Authentication done
What have I failed to do?
I semi-failed to proritize the MVP, I spent time on the UI, when I should have just added Authentication I was trying to make the website prettier, I was brainstorming and trying to implement new features when I should have built from the ground up.
What do I do next
For next week the goals are
[ ] Authentication with google
[ ] Secure storage with UUID
[ ] Secure Firestore with UUID
[ ] Create User profile, where they can see all their books
[ ] Delete a book.
[ ] RELEASE
If I have extra time
[ ] Google Location city on selling books
[ ] Use Location to filter out the books in your city.