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Proposal

- What problem does your app solve? It helps users solve a variety of issues they may be having by providing a hub of information that they can refer to.

- Be as specific as possible; how does your app solve the problem? If the user is for example, wanting to know how to fix a stripped screw hole, all the user needs to do is look up the specific how-to guide on our app, and they’ll quickly be able find the solution to their problem!

- What is the mission statement? To help people help each other, with the social aspect of our app, being able to post and share guides and even rate guides, we can have a catalog of information built by people, for people.

Features

• What features are required for your minimum viable product?

  • Onboarding process for general new user
  • Onboarding process for new creator
  • Ability to easily create/setup new how-to guide
  • Ability to edit/delete how-to guide
  • Ability to view/search/find/filter how-to guides

• What features may you wish to put in a future release?

  • Social networking features for creators and users
  • Ability to create a how-to playlist/queue from favorited guides
  • Extensive guides could be turned into classes that creators teach

• What do the top 3 similar apps do for their users?

  • Craftsy: classes through paid subscription service
  • SnapGuide: ability to filter types of guides you’d like to see, similar to Pinterest except guides are readily available on app instead of sending user to outside website
  • WikiHow: Step-by-step tutorials with images and in-depth steps, bookmarks, “Survival Kit” - compiled how-tos for quick access available to everyone

Frameworks - Libraries

• What 3rd party frameworks/libraries are you considering using? Moment.js, filepond, redix

• Do APIs require you to contact its maintainer to gain access? yes

• Are you required to pay to use the API? no

• Have you considered using Apple Frameworks? (MapKit, Healthkit, ARKit?) no

Target Audience

• Who is your target audience? Be specific. Our target audience is people who are looking to create How-To guides for people, as well as people who are seeking How-To guides to learn how to complete a task or objective.
• What feedback have you gotten from potential users? Being able to “favorite” How-To guides is helpful because you can not only save the guides that were helpful to you, but also it helps others find the best guides. So when you're looking for a guide, other people's “favorites” can indicate the best guide.
• Have you validated the problem and your solution with your target audience? How? No, not yet.

Prototype Key Feature(s)

• What makes your app unique? It’s designed so anyone can easily make a how to guide regardless of their skill level with technology.

• What are its main features? The ability to make a how to guide and find a guide another user created.

• This is the “bread and butter” of the app, this is what makes your app yours. The color scheme and interface were designed with the target audience in mind. They are looking for an easy to use website/app to make their project guides to share with other handy individuals.