meta-ideas

[loop101]

I'm still new to the FastLane way of thinking, so I have been writing down ideas to determine which ones I am best suited for. After two weeks of thinking, I wasn't much closer, so I decided to just push all the ideas out of my head. I gave myself one week to write down 10 ideas a day, and at the end of the week - I would pick one of the 70. The first day (yesterday), I wrote down 30 ideas. Today I've done 15, so I am ahead of schedule. Something I noticed is that the patterns in the business ideas, which I am calling "meta-ideas".

Since I am focused on websites and/or iPhone development, a lot of my ideas were related to "information gathering". Tasks where someone had to leave their office and go do something, this came about because while "desktop apps" have been being done since Lotus 1-2-3, iPhone/Android apps are still relatively new. The "Paperless Pipeline" company has an iPad/Website solution for realtors. The realtors go out and examine houses, take pictures on the iPad, and transmit the data to their home office. At the home office, they have a Web app they use to centralize the data and do reports. I think they signed up 40 Remax franchises after developing the software with the help of one franchise.

I wrote down a lot of "information gathering" jobs, such as building inspector, land surveyor, crime scene analyst, etc. One thing I noticed, was they were mostly government jobs. This was a downer, because I heard it was notoriously hard to sell software to government agencies.

My "ah-ha" moment was when I realized the government agencies could be given the software for free, and be given the iPads for free also. These inspectors inspect businesses, and businesses are much more willing to spend money to make money - or in this case, keep money.

So the whole meta-idea is to give inspection software to the government agencies for free, and then charge the people being inspected for access to the same software. I could call a building management company and tell the owner, "You might be interested in using my software to help you check the safety of your building because I know for a fact that building inspectors in your town are using it to remind them of what to check." It would be like giving teachers free tests to use in schools, and selling the students the study materials. The bigger our government gets, the more demand for the software.

This idea would work for any relationship where one person is using the software for gathering information about something, and someone else has to prepare for it.

I noticed another meta-idea for my pure iPhone apps, basically it was "video-morphing". All my app ideas were based on video analysis at their core.

I still don't know what my project will be, but I feel like I'm making some progress!

 

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[fastlaneCoder]

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[DrkSide]

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[MCD]

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