Mercedes Benz Challenge - Fun Time

1. Turn boring traffic jams into pleasure
Fun Time

2. Pain-points (1/3)
– Jake is sales manager and
spends at least 4 hours by
driving a car to visit his clients
– He wants to study Spanish
language to get more clients,
but has no free time for that

3. Pain-points (2/3)
–Mary has 2 children and spends
one hour each day when she
drives children to school
–She would like to listen to
the meditation music, but she
has no time to browse for it

4. Pain-points (3/3)
–Nowadays people are spending about
17 600 minutes by driving a car every
year
–People are tired of spending this time
with no value

5. Solution showcase
Fun Time – way with fun
Tell us where you go and enjoy your time by watching or listening podcasts
Link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxMam5LXpzL1VVFuVnd0TnprX0U/view

6. Solution summary
– No need to take eyes off the road during journey anymore and spend your time on surfing the Internet : just
select your preferable content before driving in the app settings.
– No need to stop podcast because the trip is over: your auto will tell your start and end point and we'll
calculate trip time.
– No need to control trip safety: video will be changed to the audio when you begin driving.
Fun Time looks for podcasts according to your interests and trip duration!

7. Business concept
Drivers
– Drivers may use Fun Time via
subscription model:
– Free with no ads during first month
– Free with no ads during one month
after friend invitation
– Free with short (5 seconds) ads before
each 15 minutes podcast
– Paid subscription with no ads
Content providers
– Short ads in the content
– Podcasts with priority in the list

8. Technical overview
API
– Navi destination, Vehicle location and Google maps API – to obtain trip duration
– Diagnostics > Speed – to handle movement of the vehicle
– Engine ignition – to use a push notification to attract attention of a user
Technology
– F# + Fable – to compile F# into the JavaScript
– React Native – to build Android application

9. Technical outlook
– Authorization and integration with social networks to get user’s interests
– Integration with TED API to get more interesting podcasts

10. Competitive Advantage
– Fun time is an app created
especially for drivers
– No matter if you have a short
trip or a long journey: we’ll select
a content for you which exactly
corresponds to your driving time
– Focus on driving, we will do the
rest to make your trip fun for you

11. Our team
Alexander Sugak, Software Architect Alexey Belous, Developer Constantine Vyrodov, Developer

12. The end
Thank you!