Pick a cause you are passionate about – example climate change, education, hunger, health, etc. – and design an app for it.
- Pankaj Jain
Clarifying questions
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I am passionate about education and eradicating poverty and in the same regard, I have worked with many organizations such as Rajeswari old age home and Ashray Akruti
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I would like to choose the cause as supporting old age homes
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Shall I assume the geography as India ? Yes
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Any specific goal of this app ? You decide
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Can I assume that the goal of the app is to provide a place to find the suitable volunteering opportunities and connect people who wants to support (OK)
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Build an app for supporting old age homes with the purpose of creating a space to find suitable volunteering opportunities for people to contribute
User segments
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Individuals looking for volunteering opportunities
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People wanted to make a difference in the lives of others
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Organisations looking to contribute for the causes
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Already had some sort of connections/mechanism to contribute
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Old age homes looking for support
Pain points
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How to help
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How to help
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What organisations looking for support
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Trust issues
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Proper utilisation of resources/time
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Limited time
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Other family commitments
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Cannot be a regular contributor
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The pain point of how to help is a real one. When I was associated with my previous organisation there were ample opportunities to contribute but now, I find it difficult to contribute with my time and skill
Solutions
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Travel Impact
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Opportunities might be static where we live and surrounding that area
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You travel with map access for the app
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Nearest location and hours requested by old age home
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Sometimes some of the requirement does not need to be visit such as contributing for the sewing machine for the elderly
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It also sync the travelling plan and give you the notifications to make a difference
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Effort ? M-H || Impact ? High
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Map my giveback calendar
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Select specific times such as weekends and hours to be spent
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Share some simple snippets such as cook, play, act etc
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Details such as Phone no is masked as in Uber
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Old age reach out via phone or in-app messages to maintain privacy
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Select and approve their request for the work
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Effort ? L-M || Impact ? H
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Auto-suggestion volunteering
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Something like Tinder for the volunteering
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Connect your social handles such as Linkedin, FB, Instagram and also enter your details
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Crunch the possible opportunities you might like based on your feeds
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Give notifications such as right and left swipe to showcase interest
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Effort ? H || Impact ? L – M
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KPIs to track
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Monthly active users
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Repeat volunteers
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# Volunteering activities done
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% conversion
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Referrals
Guard rail
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Privacy of users

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