Goal 2012: Build a mobile app!
Status: idea and conceptualisation phase.
Smartphones are the new… Wow. That statement just can’t be completed, I don’t think there has ever been anything in our lives that has so become an extension of ourselves. Windows to the global machine. Purveyors of procrastination and destroyers of boredom. Of course I’ll have to try to build an app and get a few sold.
I have been involved in projects like that before, but only on the managing side, not actual development.
My basic idea is to combine my new interest for CrossFit with information on exercises and tracking.
Plan of attack:
Conceptualising and designing the app aside (for that I will use my trusty tool Balsamiq, while picking the brains of some of the experienced CrossFit people at my gym), the iPhone is the given platform since the App Store simply is the biggest one with the most success in monetisation.
First iteration will be a simple information look up app, adding on tracking of results in phase 2. Would love to be able to add some sort of game aspect to it, like a leaderboard of friends, or challenges earning the user “badges”, but that may be going too far considering I have no knowledge of actual app development whatsoever.
First port of call? This seemingly excellent tutorial.
End result:
- As a minimum a CrossFit app that allows looking up exercises.
- Successfully deployed in the iPhone App Store, and a minimum of 1 sold (and not to mum either!)…
