startup weekend washington, dc | april 2014 | perfecto shot
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Problem
It is hard to find cool locations
in a place you don’t know
where you could capture the
best the city has to offer.
Our solution
Uncover interesting places in the city and capture the story of your visit in pictures.
Open up the app, it will show you a collection of cool places and guide you towards their location.
You will have the great pictures to tell your story!
MVP
We created a fully functional Android App: it contains 5 cool places in DC, will help you navigate to them and take a “perfecto” picture.
Marketing
Who are our customers? DC Tourists
Customer validation (surveyed 42 DC tourists):• 56% Would find this new app very or extremely useful• 74% Would Very likely or extremely likely download if
free• 76% Would very likely or extremely likely recommend
it to a friend
How will we enter the market? Partnerships with DC Visitors Resource Center, Board of Tourism, local businesses and attractions
Competition
Photo Safari
s
Direct competitors: NONE There is no other existing solution that solve this
problem with your mobile phone
Indirect competitors:
What makes us different?
We’ll guide you to the best locations and photo opportunities using your phone.
We’ll show you the best selection in town to let you capture the essence of DC.
We will not only give you the traditional view of a location, we will give you an array of options that will allow you to tell your story the way you want to.
We have a licensing agreement with Foolhardy Softworks to use their scalable geospatial indexing technology (backend costs).
Achievements
We talked to tourists, pivoted, validated our concept and built a product
We created a fully functional Android App with amazing design
Next steps: • Populate the database with cool locations around
DC• Continue to seek out the partnerships• Launch the app and validate our model in DC• Expand to other cities