Assignment

Overview

Your assignment is to create a “product” that will be pitched to a VC (Venture Capital) firm. Your product must be a transactional web app that performs a useful task and utilizes an API, database, and server-side programming.

Objectives

• Work collaboratively as a team to build an interactive web application
• Demonstrate learned skills from the semester

Tasks

Your task is to create a web app and define a business proposition based on the web app. The topic is up to you! It needs to have an intuitive interface and be interactive/useful.

Ideas

Below is an amazing compendium of ideas (also approximately halfway down the page is a list of public API's). You do not need to use any of these, but the list may get your ideas flowing! Sample App Ideas

Requirements

• Use HTML/CSS/JavaScript and optionally jQuery
• Must use a database (SQL or NoSQL)
• Must use a server-side technology - you may use PHP or Node.js (or both!)
• Must use an external API
• Use technologies covered in class. You may request permission to use something that is beyond the course.
• Must be interactive and transactional – i.e., it must perform a useful service

Final Project Review Presentation

• 7-10 minutes
• Name of the app and its purpose
• VC pitch* (see below for details)
• Design considerations
• Demo/show it off! Note any special features
• Any other info you think is relevant

The Pitch

Your pitch should include a PPT with the following:

• The name and a 1-line summary of what your product is
• The problem/need and how your product solves the problem/addresses the need
• How much funding your business needs and how it will be used
• The estimated financial potential for your product and ROI (Return on Investment)

Deliverables

• URL of the working app
• A doc/pdf with all code.
• PPT/slide deck explaining the following (note, more than one item can be addressed on one slide):
  • Pitch to VC firm as described above
  • Why you picked this project
  • A few screenshots showing key functionality
  • Sample of one part of the code you are most proud of
  • Tools/technologies used
  • What API did you use and why
  • The biggest challenge and how you solved it
  • The most interesting and satisfying parts of the project
  • List of team members (first and last name) and their contribution to the project
  • Site any sources used for code help NOTE: The final project must be submitted to canvas by one team member ONLY.

Rubric

• Meets all requirements: 55 points
• Works/technical excellence/creativity: 25 points
• Deliverables/Slide deck/Presentation: 20 points