Final Post

       Coming up with an invention/idea was not very difficult, I just thought of something in my daily life that I thought if I had would make it easier and the idea of a bus locating app came to me. When I came up with the idea I was actually waiting for the bus to come, I went to the bus stop a few minutes earlier thinking that the bus would get here on time so I wouldn’t have to wait in the cold for a long time but the bus was late. As I was standing there, I was thinking wouldn’t it be nice if I was able to tell where the bus was at the moment I left to go to the bus stop so that I would catch the bus as soon as I get to the stop instead of standing at the bus stop waiting forever. This waiting for a bus doesn’t happen to me only but to many people so I thought it would be a nice idea to make an app where everyone would probably be able to use. Through working on this project I have learned to develop my idea more and how certain things would make my idea better.

I learned that running a business is not that easy.  You need to think about your competitors, what they are doing that users like and what they are doing that users don’t understand or like or think is too complicated.  Knowing about your competition allows you to make a better product. I also learned how social media can have a really big effect on my business. Sites like Facebook and twitter, if people talk about my app and how they find it useful it could attract more people to use our app or if they have any complaints about it we can fix it imminently so that other users wouldn’t have that same problem. Also with social media, my business could use it as a way to communicate with the customers who use our app and to promote the app and to update users about our app.

Then from learning about Excel, Photoshop, Operating System, Networking and Database, I learned how I am able to make the business run smoother and easier and more effectively. With Excel and Database, I am about to make charts and tables of how users of my apps can get to the information they are looking for. With Photoshop I can use it to design the way I would like my app to look like. With networking it would allow me to communicate with users and see how they like it. Some of these I knew how to use but never would have thought that they would play such an important role in a business.

From applying the knowledge we learned in class to our idea and posting it on the blog, I saw how my idea evolved as each blog post was posted. For instance, I didn’t think of making the app a multi-functioning app (showing more than one thing on the screen such as map of bus on the move on the left with estimated time of bus arrival on the right). Through class I learned that it would make it more appealing to users and it would make my app stand out from competitors.

So in order for my app to become a reality I would first need to learn how to write a program. Once I learn how to write a program I can then apply what I have learned in this class to the programing skills that I learned and may this app real. Then I would need to use social media to advertise my app and let people know about it. Then after that I would like to see the number of people using my app grow.