bargainowl.net your online portal to local food and drink specials!
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BargainOwl.net
Your online portal to local food and drink specials!
Online resource for finding food and drink specials in your local neighborhood
Aimed towards the college demographic
Information on the internet is scarce and does not provide enough
Currently looking for specials requires walking in, or calling specific establishments
Comprehensive search feature:
By food item or drinks By date and time of specials By establishment By locality
Create user profiles User logon Save favorites User forums
Detailed profiles for each establishment Basic information: address, website, map,
menu Specials and discounts Reviews and ratings powered by user
community
No access to a computer? No problem!
Mobile integration SMS and Mobile Web Portal
Search Establishment profiles Specials listings
Calendar and planner Generate an event calendar by using the
specials planner View special event dates See specials by dates
Future extendibility to social networks, i.e. Facebook, MySpace...
“The internet” BargainOwl.net
User workstation
User Cellular Phone
Use LAMP or .NET, MSSQL and IIS to produce a website powered by a database
PHP/.NET driven frontend Use CSS to standardize appearance of
frontend MySQL/MSSQL as the backend, database
server By using the spiral model, risk can be
evaluated early and prompt fashion Planning > Alpha > Beta > Final Release
Time is main constraint, 6-7 week timeframe
Social networking integration most likely will need to be cut due to time constraint
Small scope within U-District for now Expansion will come later due to time
constraints Team members will need to learn new
web-based and database technologies, and may be unfamiliar to most members
Unprecedented service to satisfy specific needs of college students in food and drink
Well-defined user base College students, local patrons Large number of local establishments
Most of the development is on existing API's i.e. LAMP/.NET packages
Website traffic can become very profitable with advertising Google ads Local establishment paid advertising