Decatur Cares

This is probably going to be my flagship project.

Roadmap

  • Conceptualization: DONE
  • Goal Setting: 1/2 day, Tues. 14th
  • Market Research: 1/2 day, Tues. 14th (unless I decide to ask folks for input on the idea, then 3 days)
  • High Level Design: 1 day, Thurs. 16th
  • Code Plan/Outline: 2 days, Fri & Sat 17th & 18th
  • Marketing plan: 1-2 days
  • Detailed Design: 2-5 days (also where I get into free/paid features)
  • Code Writing: Start Tues 21st. 10 work days, roughly
  • Testing & Data input: May 5th. 5 days.
  • Publishing beta: May 12th
  • Publishing first major release: June 1

Pain Points

  • Search
  • Overall design
  • Online community features (forum / group blog / group chat / comments)
  • Customer support system
  • Volunteer opportunities
  • Events + calendar
  • Accepting donations
  • Allowing online sales
  • Defining free & pay-to-unrestrict features
  • Onboarding local organizations (setting up their basic pages, getting them to create accounts & manage their pages,)
  • Blogging/Content Creation (for individual groups/orgs)