Ghoomify- A whatsapp-like app to plan your hangouts/meetups with your friends
Concept: A whatsapp like app to help you plan your social outings/ hangouts/meetups with your friends!
Problem: Generally when you’re a group of friends, it’s a big pain to plan your hangouts due to many problems such as where to go? How to go?(navigation) where to meet? etc. This happens mainly because in a group every one has different choices.
Solution: So we plan to solve this problem by creating a more interative app than any of those existing in the market. We plan to replicate the successful whatsapp model. So how it works is: While browsing the app when a person finds an interesting place, he can create a group and suggest going to this place to his friends -> Everyone joins in and have a look at his suggestion and add more. (Even better if nothing is planned, we can then surprise them by showing the trending places that day) -> Then each of them vote
on the place(s) that they’d like to go to -> Now finally once the place is decided on popular voting, we give them navigation! and all of this while chatting
on the place(s) that they’d like to go to -> Now finally once the place is decided on popular voting, we give them navigation! and all of this while chatting
The above can be used in 2 ways:
(i) When the friends go from a common location (like hostel friends)
(ii) When each of the friend is at his/her place. Then what we can do is track their individual locations, find the centroid and suggest places around that.
Initially we’ll focus only on the food sector [cafes, Restaurants, lounges] and later expand out to general places where friends hangout like malls, multiplexes etc.
The major monetization model will be location based deals advertizing. But that is for later.
I’ve presented the idea to investors on two events organised by the E-cell of our college and received good feedback. From what I know, we’ll have pains in data collection, so I wanted feedback on whether to use Zomato API or get our own data (initially from the internet and later have a dedicated data collection team) since we plan to focus only on Mumbai for lets say the first year, it shouldn’t be too much of a problem (?).
Team: We are a team of 4 undergrad students from IIT Bombay , with 2 having little coding experience and a graphic designer. We’re currently on the lookout for a tech lead, someone with experience in android app development. Once we have a B-Plan in place we’ll approach our college incubator (SINE- IIT Bombay) and are also going to attend the next weekend ventures event in Mumbai.