Hi everyone, I hope you’re doing well!
My name is Liam, a sales manager and musician from Scotland and I’ve been learning to code with Chris since the beginning of this year. The motivation for doing so was to produce a tool (perhaps multiple down the line) that aims to help grassroots musicians thrive and share their work with others all over the world.
Myself and a friend have honed in on a particular business idea now, and my iOS journey is just one small part of that. I aim to create a working “beta” version of the app to be able to showcase behind closed doors, before seeking the help of others to build a more robust and full proof version some time in the future.
I am aware that the idea we have is possibly too advanced for a first time app so this capstone project may end up being adjacent to the main idea in some way, while still allowing me to publish my first app, but I guess I’ll see what happens as I go!
I look forward to keeping this journal entry updated for anyone interested.
Cheers,
Liam
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Capstone Project Task 2:
My idea is to build a music marketplace app focused on indie and grassroots music. Much like Bandcamp but with improvements.
The MVP will include a few key aspects however may even only be a web app with firebase integration initially. I will have the early stages of this app built alongside a working web app and hopefully be able to link the two via firebase although this is very early days. I’m aware that an app such as this is quite robust for a first try but even if it’s a private demo, I’m taking a step in the right direction.
MVP features will be:-
A “home” page with includes your own library/collection with various categorisations (artist, location, genre etc)
A “Search” page that allows you to input search terms and artist/album names to yield accurate results
Artist pages - the end point of a successful search will lead you here. A simple and elegant artist page with less features at first, but with the hopes of providing many customisation tools for artists to dress their homepage however they like.
User profiles which are initially quite thin but contain a name, display picture and show off their collection of music obtained through the platform.
A way of taking and distributing payments
User agreements
A beta phase/early artists and user onboarding. Need to look at solving the cold start problem with such an app.
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