6. Weekly Goals
- 10/08: Customer Discover
- 10/24: Design UI
- 11/05: MVP
- 11/14: User Testing
- 12/07: Submit to App Store
7. An app to prepare for coding interviews on the go
Editor's Notes
Student’s time is consumed by classes, projects, and clubs so they can’t set aside hour chunks to study for interviews.
The average person wastes 5 hours on their phone each day browsing social media because of our shrinking attention spans. What if we could get some productivity out of that wasted time?
Even though it’s doable, writing code on your phone is difficult, slow, and annoying
TODO change 3rd point to short attention spans so it fits better?
Stuart is a Junior studying CS at Umich trying to get a summer internship.
After spending hours in lines at the career fair, he finally got an interview scheduled for tomorrow.
Stuart already has two projects due that week and is responsible for hosting some night-time events for the robotics club so he has no time to practice coding challenges.
But with CodePrep, Stuart could use his spare, “in-between” time spent on the bus, eating lunch, and waiting in the office hours queue to prepare for the interview.
It’s Fast, you can open the app and do a question in 5 seconds
It’s Fun, the app is gamified so it doesn’t feel like you’re actually studying
It’s Mobile-Friendly so it’s actually designed for a phone so it doesn’t feel like lesser version of the computer experience.
Most of our competitors are online websites with hour long coding challenges and there are already a lot of great online code editors.
We want to focus on mobile first questions that take no longer than 10 to 20 seconds.
We’ve also found that writing code on a mobile device is a terrible experience, the screen is too small, and the keyboard is prone to errors; so we want to focus on a mobile friendly multiple choice format.
They require a computer and large chunks of time. The only app competitor is a code editor for the phone which is basically just a worse version of the websites sacrificing ease for mobility.
We want to focus primarily on our customer personas and user design first before working on developing the code for the actual app.
We hope that code_hop will help students turn time wasted on their phone into valuable study time.
