Pitch 1 Reflections
Really enjoyed today's pitch. Here are my reflections on the projects.
Palliative Care: it is a great project targeting a niche but important group of people. It cares not only about the patient but also the family. I believe it will be helpful to design a calendar feature as a useful timeline to guide the caretakers. Also, it will be very useful to include an emergency feature to help the patient get help when nobody is around.
TuneTrainer: I am wondering if the main purpose of this app is to help the students learn music or create music. If it focuses on learning, a step-by-step tutorial may be helpful for new users. If it is meant to help people create new pieces of music, a lively music database with easy to use composition interface will be the priority.
Breaking Language Barriers: Translation is a well-defined problem that numerous software are available, both for amateurs like Google translate of DeepL and for professionals like Trados. However, even Trados, a software for professional translators, offers machine translation functionalities before user involvement. So I guess there should be machine translation as a baseline, then let the user fix the glitches.
Assist: This idea reminds me of the distinctive differences between different characters of people. I, for example, am an introverted person who is not good at asking - it's not shy; it is about how to propose my request properly. In this case, I'll suggest giving people a template to refine their questions and make their requests clear and can be answered, which will be very important.
BlueHaven: I really like the concept of “reputation” among student helpers. Actually, we all have our own “reputation” score for everyone we interact with in real life. This concept makes it visible. I believe that the mechanism designed by BlueHaven will encourage students to actively help others with more motivation.
CRE8ORS: For the app from our group, I always want to find an innovative point to distinguish our solution from other mind-mapping apps. It may be critical to record and organize the ideas during brainstorming, but to address creative stagnation, we still need functions targeting the idea-generation process in the creativity process. Providing suggestions, asking questions, offering tips… there may be other ways to boost creativity.
Rentcourse: It's always people's dream to make the rent process as transparent as possible. But it is also a reality that many platforms, like Zillow, are deliberately hiding that information for higher profits. I would suggest you take a look at a Chinese renting platform, Ziroom, to see how they make the renting process more transparent. They did it by creating a centralized platform where all the rent activities should be processed by it, which, in a way, makes the process trustworthy and standardized.
WasteWise: It is a great opportunity to create a local bin-finding map. When watching your pitch, I was thinking of also creating your recycling service by putting your own bins on the campus. The app directs people to collect recyclable objects, and you will make a profit from them.