{"id":3878,"date":"2009-12-07T18:47:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T02:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/?p=3878"},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:26","slug":"iphone-app-idea-winesnap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2009\/12\/iphone-app-idea-winesnap","title":{"rendered":"iPhone App Idea: WineSnap"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Don’t let the beautiful bottle fool you… this is terrible wine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

If you’re an iPhone developer, you probably struggle a lot with the issue of effort vs. revenue. In other words, you think you’ve thought of something cool and you don’t mind investing the time to produce it, but you just aren’t sure if anyone will actually pay<\/em> for it.<\/p>\n

Here’s an app that — if well done — I would pay $20 or more for:<\/p>\n

Whenever I’m having a glass of wine, allow me to snap a picture of the bottle (or the barcode from the bottle) and within 30 seconds enter some very basic information about it:<\/p>\n

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  1. Grade — A through F<\/li>\n
  2. Characteristics — Mild, Strong, Oaky, Fruity<\/li>\n
  3. Optional freeform text comments<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Once I hit submit, save this to my wine library database, accessible via iPhone or web browser.<\/p>\n

    Are there other wine rating apps and services available right now? Definitely. But unfortunately none of them pass the 30 second test. They don’t even pass the 5 minute test. Usually when you’re in the middle of drinking wine — whether at a wedding, a party, at dinner, or in a dark alley — spending 5 minutes typing notes into your iPhone is just not something you’d ever consider doing… and this is the critical void that no one has filled yet.<\/p>\n

    It should be “snap, select, select, done”. By reducing the effort required to create a personal wine note library to this simple 30 second routine, you’d be enabling thousands of recreational wine drinkers to do something they’ve never been able to do before: actually remember what wines they try and which ones they like. That level of detail, in most cases, is all people really need, and it’s something I am 100% sure many would gladly pay for.<\/p>\n

    Ok then, who’s going to step up? I’ll be your first sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Don’t let the beautiful bottle fool you… this is terrible wine. If you’re an iPhone developer, you probably struggle a lot with the issue of effort vs. revenue. In other words, you think you’ve thought of something cool and you don’t mind investing the time to produce it, but you just aren’t sure if anyone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}