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Primary Topic - BeatDrop

Problem Statement: Everyone has their own music taste, everybody has their own likes and dislikes. At times, people like to know what others are listening, explore new music or listen to music according to their moods, as it often gets boring to listen to the same songs over and over. People often go to social events/parties and there is a chance that they might not like the host’s songs/playlist. Hence, in order to eschew such situations, BeatDrop enables users to share playlists/songs with the host so that a common playlist can be generated based on previous data and some parameters like others’ likes, dislikes, number of times it has been played, etc.

Target Audience: Our target audience will be:

  1. Users who can share their playlists with the host 

  2. Users who are registered as hosts and can accept/reject playlists from other users and merge playlists 

  3. Users who are registered as Artists and can upload their songs and playlists on the portal.

Solution Proposal: Users can create account and login. Users can create playlists, search songs, play songs, follow people, users can create private and public playlists. Hosts can Host party, create a playlist specific to party, can accept user requests to merge the songs, change the order. Artists can register themselves as music composers and can upload songs. Users can follow them.

Data Source(s): Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs. They provide their RESTful API for public use. https://beta.developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/ https://beta.developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-playback-sdk/

Alternate Topic: fitPal

Problem statement: People are often concerned about their health and generally search online for health, exercise and fitness solutions. They can find solutions online but it might not be specific to their own metabolism or lifestyle or diet. Getting to an instructor or fitness expert is costly and hence people often ignore their health. This website basically helps users to get a personalized instructor and get their diet and exercise tailored to their needs. People can register themselves as instructors to guide people. The admin can assign instructor to users.

Target audience: Our target audience will be:

  1. Users registered as trainees

  2. Users registered as trainers

  3. Users registered as legitimate fitness experts

Solution proposal: fitPal is a portal that enables users to receive personalized training and nutrition details from professional trainers based on their biological information like height, weight, BMI etc. and their eating habits. The users can create their account, login and enter their daily routine which will only be visible to instructors. The user is assigned a personalised instructor. The portal enables the instructor and the user to communicate online. The user has to provide daily workout details so that instructor can guide the user with diet and exercises. The users can follow each other to see their workouts and exercise regime. The users can also follow their favorite celebrity fitness experts and their workout routines etc. The celebrity experts can upload videos regarding various new exercises.

Data source(s): http://wger.de/api/v2/ Workout Manager is a free, open source web application that manages your exercises, workouts and nutrition. Workout Manager provides a full REST API to all database objects.

Alternate Topic: PlanMyTrip

Problem statement: Everyone loves to travel, but no one likes the hassle behind planning a travel. A lot of research goes into travel planning, like which are the best flight deals, the best hotels to stay at, various tourist destinations which are a must visit. Many a times travelers are not able to enjoy their trip due to that poor planning, or are not able to plan properly due to their busy schedules, or maybe they just don’t like hours of research and planning for the trip. Hence, this portal makes it easy for users to access an itinerary generated based on their requirements.

Target audience: Our target audience will be

  1. Potential travelers

  2. Vendors who put in their flights and hotel details

  3. People who want to simply book hotels and flights using the webapp as a portal.

Solution proposal: Itinerary Generator is a portal that enables users to enter their travel destination and various other details, using which an itinerary is generated and proposed to the user. Taking in details like source and destination, the webapp will display the flight options, hotel stay options, various tourist locations, based on past reviews that the user might like to visit, and will also suggest various events being conducted around that time, that the user can attend during their visit i.e an automated itinerary will be generated which is optimised for user experience.

Travelers can create an account, login and enter their travel destination. They can also make changes to the autogenerated itinerary based on the suggestions provided. The traveler can also provide their travel reviews on their profile. Vendors can upload their available hotels and flight deals. Buyers can book the flights and hotels through the portal.

Data source(s): Rome2rio makes travel planning easy. It is a door-to-door travel information and booking engine, that helps users get to and from any location in the world. They provide their RESTful API for public use. https://www.rome2rio.com/documentation/

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