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All of these projects will be started from scratch so your feedback is greatly appreciated. No prior experience in the tech stack is necessary as you will learn everything you need to build the app during the class. All you need is the motivation to learn something new!
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- Business Marketplace/Aggregator
- This is a platform to buy and sell businesses
- Brokers or business owners can post their businesses for sell
- Title, city, state, asking price, revenue, cash flow, description
- Reason for selling
- Type of business: restaurant, cleaning, health, software, etc.
- Franchise or not, FBA approved or not, Seller financing available or not
- Sellers will be able to see a dashboard of all of their businesses
- This page will contain the titles, a picture, and some small analytics about the listing. Something like, 100 people have seen this listing and 10 favorites
- Business profiles will show similar listings at the bottom of the page
- Users will be able to search by text, filter using any of the following [type of business, location, absentee, price min, price max], and sort using any of the following [asking price, revenue, cash flow]
- Anonymous users will be able to view listings but they need to create an account before they can contact the seller
- Authenticated users will be able to contact seller
- User inputs name and email and presses submit
- Seller is notified of users name and email
- User inputs name and email and presses submit
- Authenticated users will also be able to favorite listings
- User will have a dashboard showing all of their favorited listings similar to the brokers dashboard except without the analytics
- Brokers can edit a listing and users who have favorited that listing will be notified
- State of listing: initial state is always active when creating it
- Other states: Pending, Sold, Unlisted
- Only listings with an active state can be searched for. All other states are hidden from search
- Crawl similar platforms and take their listings and add them under the admins account
- If you're able to pull the sellers email, then forward any queries to them
- If you're not able to pull the sellers email, then notify the admin via email to manually fill out the form on their behalf or create a script that does that automatically
- Users can upload documents to a listing
- This is to keep track of financials and other documents shared between seller and buyer in an organized fashion
- Monetization
- Ads
- Charge sellers a monthly fee
- BizBuySell competitor
- But many boomers either don't know about them, or aren't sure how to make the best use of them.
- Solve that by building a consulting service that lists their companies on existing platforms for a flat fee or a percentage of the sale price. Or, launch a new platform that caters specifically to this niche.
- Profit & Loss Statements (Web)
- This is a personal finance app that syncs to your bank account and generates a profit & loss statement
- Profit & Loss Statement are typically used for businesses but I want one that works for both
- Eventually you can view the data by category and generate a graphs to track progress over time
- The goal is to use Plaid (https://plaid.com/products/transactions/) to pull transaction data and categorize it
- [NOTE] this may not be possible depending on how difficult it is to get approval
- If we can't get approval, then we will mock the transactions for the time being
- Competitors
- https://www.projectionhub.com/ (Financial projection templates, DIY projection software, and custom CPA support for raising capital and business planning)
- https://causal.app/
- Bingo Card Creator (aka Loteria Card Creator)
- Bingo Card Creator (aka Loteria Card Creator)
- The goal of this website is to be able to generate bingo cards and play online with a group of friends
- A user will be able to register an account and start creating bingo cards
- Bingo cards will start off with the default size of 5x5
- Eventually they will be able to pay to increase the size
- For the MVP, we will start with only numbered bingo cards but the goal is to eventually be able to add images and longer text
- As the user creates the bingo card, they will be able to select what type of bingo card they want to create (i.e. numbered or pictured)
- They will have some sort of interface to be able ot easily create the card
- After the bingo card is created, they will be able to view it on their dashboard
- They should then be able to start a game and invite users by sharing a URL
- This form should define the rules such as blackout or first to 5 in a row
- It will have an option to either email or text the URL
- When a user taps on the URL and they are not logged in to their account, then they can create a temporary username and play the gae
- The host of the game will have a different menu than the rest of the invited players
- The host
- will be able to draw the next card
- kick out users
- invite players to play again
- Invited Player
- will have 10 seconds to tap on the bingo card after each card has been drawn
- will have the option to announce themselves the winner
- [Host] will then need to inspect the card to make sure it's correct
- The host
- Note: Host will also be able to play the game as they are hosting it
- Optional: Users can view each others cards as the game progresses
- Pricing
- Users can create 1 bing card for free
- To create more than 1 then they will have to pay for a membership
- Competitors
- Bingo Card Creator (aka Loteria Card Creator)
- Decentralized storage
- This is a 2 sided marketplace where owners will be able to register their driveways, garages, and empty rooms and have others users pay to store their items
- This will be very similar to AirBnb but with storing items
- Owners will be able to add pictures, description, location, size of the space, and set the daily price per day/hour to rent
- Owners can add as many spaces as they want
- Users will be able to search for places to rent via city
- Users can message their owners to ask questions
- Users will be able to pay and rent the space via the platform
- Users will be able to see a history of their transactions
- Users and owners will be able to rate each other after the reservation has been completed
- Owners will have the option to withdraw their funds to their bank account