The ‘Story of a Banknote’ +6 high-potential product ideas to inspire you and your team What to do when its impossible to process all of your ideas in your backlog? You have the option to keep them hidden, waiting in your or It’s a great feeling after all when it happens to inspire ambitious entrepreneurs out there. ideas backlog , just share them! The following briefly describe 7 — from and — which could trigger interesting entrepreneurial discussions. product concepts music news to recruitment services 1. Location-Locked messages How about a service enabling Then notify the recipients to go discover them? anchoring messages in space and time? A user in a particular location (certain radius and/or in a named location) leaves a message to a or a . The message is only available if the recipient gets to the within the predefined time frame. The message can be combination of voice/video/text/image or other form of rich media. The recipient might get a notification on this message or not (surprise mode). friend group of friends specific place, This could become a great platform for games and new interaction scenarios. In a small geo-scale this sets the basis for , and with posting location-triggered messages. games personal messages friends having fun In a large geo-scale, users lock their messages in places around the world. . It could also involve public messages — enabling a ‘happened here’ summation. If and when the targeted users visit the same place, they discover the (potentially old) messages Concept: location-locked messages Interested for more information? Happy to share more, connect here 2. A Social Music Discovery Naturally discover music by accessing the most popular & recently played songs in reference to a particular social arrangement Assuming a particular social arrangement ( ); this app scans the connected music services of each person in the arrangement ( ) and creates of this social arrangement. a class in a University, customers in a Bar/Movie theater, friends having a coffee etc. for instance Spotify accounts, YouTube music content etc. a consolidated list of recently and most frequently played songs for the members ( ). The offline experience may also support naming the social arrangement, exposing patterns related to it ( ); could also support automatic , with suggestions to join and exchange opinions and preferences on music and more. An ongoing, social driven music discovery engine powered both by people I know and strangers which happened to be in the same place as well i.e. ad-hoc or repeating, social or professional etc. conversion to a group Interested for more information? Happy to share more, connect here 3. The Story of a banknote This is an old (but still relevant) idea -when banknotes were a popular payment method — about an app to . attach messages to banknotes A user would be able to attach before making a payment. As banknotes change hands, their stories could be discovered and enriched by other users, across the world. a story or message to a particular banknote Any random banknote could have an interesting history — a set of stories, events comments across locations The app could use combination of in order to be able to identify a banknote, perform validation, identify and scan the unique identifiers of the specific banknote. image analysis, entity identification techniques and OCR 4. Personalized VIDEO News Personalization on top of collection of independent pieces of content is quite conventional now days. Imagine an intelligent process to summarize the daily news as a which is But how about personalizing a short video served as a single, smooth experience, so that the user perceives it as a single video? short video interactive and personalized for each particular user! n online service offering using and also advanced and . The is done per The ‘synopsis video’ is presented by a human news caster or an avatar. The structure of the video is based on technology ( ) or ( ). A daily content synopsis human editors Artificial Intelligence content understanding technologies news synopsis market, language, culture. to allow smooth and interactive navigation through the video, either explicitly the user is clicking ‘next topic’ implicitly the system is filtering out or re-prioritizing stories within the video, based on user’s profile, preferences, session details, day of the week etc. across platforms and devices. As users consume a ‘news synopsis’ video, the system adapts to their preferences, usage patterns and styles. Each topic covered in the video is clickable, targeting the original content item or a set of curated content covering the summarized story. As the user consumes the video, can simply skip one topic, or click it and get major media content on the specific story. For example, a user is watching the ‘daily news digest’ video and on a specific story — let’s say the Greek Financial crisis — the user clicks and gets a set of content provided by CNN, BBC, NBC, Facebook etc. all matching the exact story. News Synopsis Videos are then released 5. A Social Content Discovery service . Imagine an app on your mobile able to instantly capture the signals regarding the content/news consumed by people around you Then make intelligent recommendations based on content, and . This would be extremely helpful not only as a news/content discovery engine but also as a helper for identification of common interests, conversation and social interaction. popular dynamics trends within the particular social arrangement They system could also empower the the of the people physically appearing in the place. discovery of places based on content/news/topical preferences 6. Recruitment: video CVs The global online recruiting landscape is undergoing a significant transformation. Global trends (AI-driven workforce transformation) combined with well-known inefficiencies of the traditional job-application processes create the right conditions for novel products and services. Imagine a based on : Applicants search for jobs and apply with while HR professionals search and access Video CVs as the first step of the short-listing process. The platform would allow Job-Seekers to search & apply to jobs with one-click and proceed to selective video sharing with the job poster. On the other side, HR employees, would be able to easily set-up and manage jobs, support them with video material, and browse auto-matched or applied-for Video CVs. An enhanced platform, offering all well-known functionality in a totally new, content-driven way. job application and screening process Video CVs short, standardized videos instead of CVs This concept has been originally conceived back in 2010. Currently there are startups offering video CVs but this might still inspire thinking around novel features or products. 7. Music: a dynamic, audience-driven PLAYLIST You are in a restaurant or cafe and you realize that you listen to some of the rare songs you like and also to new ones of the same taste! The restaurant or cafe could seamlessly aggregate the music preferences of the (for instance via Spotify or similar music streaming service — for those customers having the app enabled) and use this aggregate to generate highly relevant playlists: matching the explicit or implied preferences of the current audience — set of customers in the physical space! current audience Another interesting scenario is the of the people physically appearing in the place; users can discover places based on the musical preferences of other people present in the specific location/ place. discovery of places based on musical preferences Interested for more information? Happy to share more, connect here How to define a Minimum Viable Product

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