Check - Out

Idea in one line

Check Out is the fun and very easy way to find/locate and explore what events you would like or may want

to attend based on location, time, your personal interest and your social network.

Detailed Explanation

• Too many services/websites available to find out events to attend and things you can do.

• But the most general and common way of showing data is lists:

–Not the best way to show info on mobile

–Not very informative

–Not very interactive

• It’s very difficult to find events when you are on move and using your mobile.

• It’s even more difficult when you are not in your country and don't know local services.

Eventbrite.com uses lists to display their data – a really old way which is not interactive.

TicketMaster.com – stuck with lists as well.

BookMyShow.com – poor site to book tickets from, again stuck with lists.

Websites have improved their design over time, but that is not enough.

The way of showing data in the form of lists is not good enough to display a lot of

useful information because there is a possibility that data would be cluttered.

There is more data than the user cares about like location and distance, type

of event, friends going etc.

The information is so scattered that users hate to visit multiple websites

trying to solve the same problem.

Users would like to see data represented visually as that would be easier to comprehend and remember.

Meet Check - Out

• Check – Out will strive to solve all the existing problems of discovering events.

– Primarily a mobile app that will run on all major mobile platforms

– And a website that does everything that the mobile app does

Check - Out

• Events from different sources in just one place

• Events according to distance & location, information will be displayed on maps

• Events your friends are attending, showing results in real time

• Provides all the relevant information one need in the most appropriate way so that one cares about it

• Gives all this information while one is on the move i.e. on all mobile devices

Some Mockups

Login Screen

User can Login or wait for Menu to

load

Some Mockups

Main Menu

Discover – Random event search

Explore – Events near Current Location

Socialize – Events your Facebook friends attending

Search – Find events according to your choice

Some Mockups

User clicks Search – Default Search Screen

Some Mockups

User enters Parameters

Some Mockups

Search Results displayed on Map

Some Mockups

Search Results displayed on Map

Venue on Map

Location of Venue

Cost of Event

Takes you to the website which is selling the tickets

Direction to venue from current location

Find which friends are going for this

Resources - Data • About the events:

– Location/Venue

– Costs (If costs involved, links to purchase tickets)

– Start and End date time

• Facebook Events using Graph API

• Events from Yelp.com, Zomato.com, Eventbrite.com, TicketMaster.com

• Movie show timings - BookMyShow & Google Film show times

• Yelp, Facebook etc provides its data through public API, but many services don’t have public API and ways to get data from them still need to figure out

Resources - People

• We need very small and focused team of right people to work with.

• Software engineers

– Backend engineer - Website and mobile applications will request data from the backend.

– Frontend engineer - Required to take care of website and mobile website.

– App developer - They are very important as every feature will be pushed for mobile audience first.

• Designers

– UI/UX designers - User experience in the most important and they should get best experience.

Resources - People

• Sales & Marketing

– To get events from websites/companies that don’t have public API

– These companies must promote our product with theirs

– To make everyone aware of the app using social media, promotion, sales

Resources – Hardware/Software

• Hardware – Servers

• Web servers

• Database Servers

• Load balancers

– Data storage on cloud

• Softwares – Open source softwares

Resources – Funding

• Salaries

• Work space

• Purchase and maintenance of resources

• Day to day activities

• Anything else that might come up in between

Why People will use

• Easy to use

• Show the relevant information like

– What

– When

– Where and distance from current location

– Costs

– Friends going

• Everything in one place, so that no more Googling is required to find out.

Promotion • Social Media

• Flawless service

• Invite only to start with to gain traction

• Demo at various events and places

• Partner with events websites like Eventbrite.com, TicketMaster.com etc as they are famous for events and ticketing, they will take this as a medium to get people to get traffic and to make people use their service

• Partner with small and medium event based businesses

Thank You !!!