Setbacks rerouting us…
In the next meetup with Felix Josemon , he told us the popular platforms avaliable to make an app prototype , so that we could make our customers know exactly what we have in our mind. The deadline was not far away , and we made prototypes for both the apps with full enthusiasm. All through the process we had doubts thinking how we were to print the bills for each customer. Hoping that we would resolve the problem somehow , we continued.
A few days later , Felix Josemon asked all the teams to meet him seperately. This time he expressed that our idea might not be as big a success as we thought it would turn out. Thinking about the support we received , we said that we would rather stick on to our plans.
That day evening , we met the shop owners to show them our prototypes. Both the shop owners expressed that bills are a compolsory need. Though we searched for solutions , we couldn’t come up with a viable plan. And we knew that we had to drop the whole idea.
The two prototypes we made can be accessed below :
We started all over again another evening , but this time targeting tuition centres in the vicinity. And yet again we were lucky to find two owners interested.
The first one was Pioneer tuition centre , were Mr Shimjith was glad to hear that we were willing to make an app which would be helpful for the students and teachers alike , as well as market their tuition centre to other students. We said that we could upload study materials and solved question papers. He also expressed that they had four tuition centres across Kerala and that a feature for conducting a common online test for all the students would be helpful. Feeling elated , we left.
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In the hope that we might strike a second deal , we further continued searching for tuition centres. And we were not wrong.
Soon we met Mr Rahul , one of the partners of Ignite tuition centre. We presented our idea of an app for publishing study materials and question papers. Though he wasn’t interested in the plan we had , he said that they were in need of an app which could make marking of attendance easier. In addition , he said that a feature to calculate the salary of each teacher at the end of the month would be helpful. But all through our discussions , he had the feeling that we were walking around to gather ideas for a new app and not for making apps for the shop owners. We knew that we had to prove him wrong.
Within the next few days , we came up with a prototype and went to the shop. This time the second partner , Mr Abhilash was the one who was free to talk to us. We showed him the prototype , and he was impressed with our work. We even made a WhatsApp group including the partners of the tuition centre!
The link for the prototype we made is given below :
Right from day one when the workshop started , Felix Josemon had been guiding us , giving us deadlines for each task and making sure we continued putting in efforts. We owe him a big thanks..!
We were forced to pause for a while , as we left for Kannur to attend the Annual State Convention of ISTE , Sangrah on 15th February , Thursday. We were glad to come back after bagging the first prize in the event Code Relay , in which myself , Abhay V Ashokan and Calvin Wilson teamed up.
We have already discussed a rough layout of our app , and we are all set to start our work.
