1) The pitch.
(Transcript)
"Hello, my name is Lauren; I am a 4th year at the University of Florida, and I am an avid scavenger of food. I don't know about y'all, but I search far and wide and sometimes, I wish I had food at the most inconvenient times. Have you ever wished your friends or even a stranger could deliver you food late at night when you're studying and immobile at Club West or Marston? Well, let me introduce you to an interactive app that connects you to a community of food deliverers to you. This app called "Growl" will allow you to connect to your friends in an interactive app community where you all are able to accept each other's personal food requests and retrieve these food items in a "food-run-mission" under a limited amount of time, like 20 minutes, which the hungry person can set. Let's put this into a scenario.
You’re a college student, stuck alone at Marston. You hear your stomach growling. And all you can think about is burgers, nuggets, COFFEE! And then you suddenly remember “Growl,” the app that lets you find people to challenge on food quests. There’s even an additional feature where instead of challenging them, you can post an amount you’re willing to pay to have it delivered to you. It’s simple as 1. 2. 3. 1. You log onto the app on your smart phone, post on your status something along the following lines: "I am hungry for some McDonalds, and I need it in 15 minutes." If someone on your friendslist is available and accepts your food challenge, he/she will accept the chance to buy your food item. With every successful food run, your friends can rack up points for prizes, and after every food delivery, you can rate if the deliverer was a 4/5 star deliverer, if the food was correctly ordered, etc. You can even change your settings and allow other community members that aren't your friends to deliver you food. You should never go hungry late at night. Join the Growl app community. Remember. Don't let your hunger roar, just "Growl."
"Hello, my name is Lauren; I am a 4th year at the University of Florida, and I am an avid scavenger of food. I don't know about y'all, but I search far and wide and sometimes, I wish I had food at the most inconvenient times. Have you ever wished your friends or even a stranger could deliver you food late at night when you're studying and immobile at Club West or Marston? Well, let me introduce you to an interactive app that connects you to a community of food deliverers to you. This app called "Growl" will allow you to connect to your friends in an interactive app community where you all are able to accept each other's personal food requests and retrieve these food items in a "food-run-mission" under a limited amount of time, like 20 minutes, which the hungry person can set. Let's put this into a scenario.
You’re a college student, stuck alone at Marston. You hear your stomach growling. And all you can think about is burgers, nuggets, COFFEE! And then you suddenly remember “Growl,” the app that lets you find people to challenge on food quests. There’s even an additional feature where instead of challenging them, you can post an amount you’re willing to pay to have it delivered to you. It’s simple as 1. 2. 3. 1. You log onto the app on your smart phone, post on your status something along the following lines: "I am hungry for some McDonalds, and I need it in 15 minutes." If someone on your friendslist is available and accepts your food challenge, he/she will accept the chance to buy your food item. With every successful food run, your friends can rack up points for prizes, and after every food delivery, you can rate if the deliverer was a 4/5 star deliverer, if the food was correctly ordered, etc. You can even change your settings and allow other community members that aren't your friends to deliver you food. You should never go hungry late at night. Join the Growl app community. Remember. Don't let your hunger roar, just "Growl."
2) Reflection.
I was surprised that most people felt like there was no incentive for others to want to join them in this community, so I changed the fact that there was now an option. Now, users have the option of, instead of sending food challenges, they can post a monetary value on each assignment, and anyone who wants to get paid by doing this errand for them, can do it.
3) What did you change?
I wanted to refine the idea. I also, like previously stated, added an option where people can post monetary amounts for anyone to have in exchange for running their food errand. Money makes the world go round, they say. I still believe in this idea that there are people out there willing to use this app. As I’m typing right now, I sincerely wish someone would deliver me a starbucks coffee, because I need it for the law exam I’m studying over tonight.
Lauren first there was a great deal of static in your video. It was hard to listen to. I think you have a good idea but I was a little confused as to who actually delivers your food. I think if you better explain that portion than you have a great idea. You can check out my idea at http://jackiepanetta.blogspot.com/2016/03/elevator-pitch-no-3.html
ReplyDeleteHi Lauren,
ReplyDeleteGreat work on this assignment! I feel that the only thing that you would have to work on is specifying who would actually be delivering the food to the people. Other than this great work on the assignment. Here is a link to my blog if you wanted to take a look at it: http://ksnihur.blogspot.com/2016/03/elevator-pitch-no-3.html