Vision:

To teach and enable people through employment to be faithful to God, to their families, and to their community.

Mission:

To become the primary source for consumers to find businesses and coprorations to find customers.

Core Values

• Fail Faster

Milestones

• 0.1.0 Collection (09-30-2014)
• 0.2.0 Marketing (10-15-2014)
• 0.3.0 Flattery (10-31-2014)
• 0.4.0 Usefulness (11-30-2014)
• Future Phases (unassigned)

0.1.0 Collection

• The app should be available in both English and Japanese
• Anon should be able to log in as a User
• User should be able to submit a new location
• Anon should be able to get a list of nearby locations
• User should be able to check in to a location
• User should be able to leave a review for a location

0.2.0 Marketing

• The app should be mobile friendly:
  • it should fit all controls within the view of an iphone 4
  • it should only take one try to interact with a control
• A user should be able to receive an achievement based on activity.
• A user should be able to submit a full text review.
• A place should have a list of reviews and an average review.
• The app should search locations by name slightly outside the current map view, should update on a map pan, and should adjust the zoom on locations found.
• A user should register an account through an email validation.

0.3.0 Flattery

• A user should have a page with general activity including public information, an image, stats, and badges.
• A user should get some of visual feedback with every action they take, viz. experience points or badges.

0.4.0 Usefulness

The goal of 0.4.0 is to give early adopters a painless user experience. The plan is to get at least 20 regular users, get feedback from them, and construct deliverables around the feedback.

• A user will be able to complete the following user story for 5 locations a day for 5 consecutive days.
  • Search for a nearby location,
  • Optionally add it if not found,
  • Check in,
  • Optionally leave a review when they are done,
  • and repeat for a new location.
• A user will be able to find the intended location on 75% of searches.

Future Phases

• A place should handle basic information such as a category (eg. coffee shop), many tags (eg. coffee, alcohol, lunch, wifi), hours of operation, a picture, and a map.
• The app should use a translation API to convert reviews into the user’s language
• Reviews could contain a breakdown of reviews by attribute (such as cleanliness or service).
• Share on Facebook, line
• Crowdsource feedback on valid locations, good reviews
• Restrict server access, database access, server roles, database roles
• Add client minification to build process
• Server reboot protection
• Add database update to deployment process
• Check in should persist after leaving the page
• Add standard versioning to app.
• Add source control.
• p2p chat on locations
• a user may not like the selection of yet-to-complete badges on the user page. he should be able to expend rep to refresh the list or increase the number of visible yet-to-complete badges
• actions should leave marks, mayors, initial submitters, etc., to encourage people to compete