Dmitri is an app that provides book recommendations based on a user's interests and matches compatible users for dating. Its goals are to discover independent authors, connect book lovers, and inspire writing. It aims to satisfy the desire to find new reading material and appeals to a hidden market. The MVP would involve manually recommending books to 5-10 people and improving the process based on feedback to see if 5 more people would pay for the service.
2. Overview
App description and background
Goals, mission, and vision
Market analysis
7 Day Start Up analysis: Is the app a good idea?
Ad campaign
Monetization
MVP
4. book recommendations
with a splash of romance
dmitri works by
pinpointing user interests
to generate book
recommendations and to
match compatible users.
“Making finding your next
book easier”
5. BackgroundSatisfies
the desire
of finding
reading
material
Geared toward your
personal interests
Inspired by
the lack of
reading
platforms
available
Dmitri
appeals to
a hidden
market yet
to emerge
Focuses on
independent
publishers: long tail
of book industry
A pool of 10
individuals
indicated
interest in
the app and
would utilize
its services
9. Mission Statement
Our mission is to create an interactive social platform where readers can discover
hidden writers, independent writers, and renowned authors. We want to inspire
generations to explore their writing abilities to write stories and interact with each
other to build relationships.
13. Competition
Goodreads
Find new books
through personalized
book
recommendations
“Facebook for
book lovers”
Bookmarq
Follow what
books Influencers
are reading
Update their book
statuses and
create stacks
15. Competitive Advantage
“Story DNA” –
Books’ metadata
Allow users to
be specific in
their searches
Search by
interest, not by
title and author
Connect users
with potential
matches
16. 7 Day Startup Principles: Is
the app a good idea?
4.
App Details
17. IS THE IDEA A GOOD ONE?
Eight Elements Comments
Scalable Business Model
-One simple product offering
-Ambition to grow business into
larger company
An asset you can sell
-Attractive asset with sellable
potential: Apple bought Book
Lamp/Book Genome Project - similar
concept
Large market potential -Goodreads has over 1 million users
Taps into pain differentiators
-App solves an existing problem that
people are already paying for
Unique lead generation advantage -Potential for content marketing
Ability to launch quickly
-Based on MVP: landing page and
manual service
23. Monetization
A-list (premium) features in the
social section
• Subscription
• Freemium – premium features
exclusively for paying customers
In app-advertisements
25. Minimum Viable Product
1. Find 5-10 people who need a book recommendation
2. Generate book recommendations manually using the
same algorithm/procedure that you would automate later
3. If people like the recommendations, do it again and
make improvements
5. See if you can get 5 more people to pay you money for
the service, or use Facebook Ad
How could we test the MVP this weekend?
Description of app: executive summary and company description (Gina)
Background on app: (Gina)
pain points - don’t know where to start when wanting to read a new book and have a specific interest/mood in mind
How did the idea arise?
What is the need for the app?
Is there indication/proof points that people want this? ->concept test
Goal and objectives (Tiara)
niche market/long tail (independent and lesser-known books)
making reading and finding books to read more accessible and easier
Market analysis (Sabrina)
Competition
customer profile
Competitive advantage we believe will make our business a success
Are there other products that do the same thing?
7 day startup principles: Details about app (Sabrina)
Is the app a good idea? (checklist)
Facebook ad results
Would we use native app or HTML? -> Native -> high functionality and complex algorithm that requires a database. Plus profiles
Financial projections (appealing to investor) (Tiara)
Partnership with Amazon and Goodreads
Future ad campaigns
Ad campaign (Sabrina)
How to reach consumers with ad campaign? Promotion (ad on Goodreads) -> specific details
How would we get funding? ->Crowdsourcing?
Monetization (Gina)
Subscription to “A-List” features of online dating section -compatibility of interests (Follow Tindr’s premium model - see up to a certain amount of matches before you have to pay)
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MVP - market concept test: How to test MVV this weekend? (Sabrina)
Ask 5 people for their email and manually (via email) give them book recommendation based off the algorithm of the app
Satisfies the desire of finding new reading material geared directly toward your personal interests.
Inspired by the lack of reading recommendation platforms available for everyday booklovers.
Film and music recommendation platforms are plentiful, yet any existing services offering reading suggestions are greatly lacking. Dmitri appeals to a hidden market that has yet to emerge.
A pool of 10 individuals indicated interest in the app and would utilize services.
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Targeted males and females 18-35 who are interested in e-books, online dating, or books and had ios and android devices
Targeted males and females 18-35 who are interested in e-books, online dating, or books and had ios and android devices
- Amazon advertising program is informed by billions of observed shopping behaviors.
-Google adwords: people searching for keywords: book recommendation, reading, datin
Subscription to “A-List” features of online dating section -compatibility of interests (Follow Tindr’s premium model - see up to a certain amount of matches before you have to pay)
Freemium – allow a free trial for the dating section
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