Why are I so let's go ahead and dive into making this MVP.
This one is going to be called Wait mate.
And basically what it does.
We have our three questions here that we set up to answer to help mold and shape the way we want to
build this app out or design this app out.
So first what is the goal of the app.
It allows you to easily find a spotter's at your gym so let's just say you you workout alone at your
bench pressing and you want to try to go for that last Sat or that last rep.
But you know that you might not be able to make it.
Normally you have a spotter which is somebody generally like a friend or a buddy that is going to pull
the make sure that the weight doesn't fall on you pretty much so the goal of the app is you're going
to connect with people who are going to spot you at the gym.
And we are going to describe this app as if it were a person so I put down here reliable strong and
simple something that you can rely on every time you're at the gym.
It's just that you know from that you can lean on for help especially when there's a I don't know 200
pound barbell on you who will be using this app.
So I'm envisioning at least for right now you know people who work out regularly I'm alone that are
ages 20 to 40 and the reason why I put this range is just because a lot of people in this range are
used to technology and the way it works in terms of social networking.
So just a general arranged to get us started.
But I'm also going to add a third one in here.
I mean a fourth question and it's going to be what is your competitive advantage.
And for those for those of you who don't know our competitive advantage is basically what sets you apart
from everything else out there.
Pretty much.
And this is something that you're probably going to want to dig deep on and think about especially if
you're building a new product or a spinoff or you know a product in a crowded space you want to think
about what sets you apart.
And basically how you're going to win and this helps in creating an MVP because it allows you to revolve
your products design around your competitive advantage.
The one thing that's going to grab a toehold on the market right.
For example let's throw a quick example out there.
A.
A question that gets asked a lot in you know seed round meetings or angel investing meetings is what
is stopping Google from implementing this or what is stopping Facebook from implementing this right.
You know you have these behemoth companies that can easily throw a couple of million dollars into a
department and crank something out.
Similar right.
So how do you plan to compete.
And that is really what you want to think about as you hone in your competitive advantage.
So the answer that you would give them and where you would start when building your product is hey you
know what we are not Facebook definitely acknowledge that we are not Google.
We are not you know eBay or Amazon but we plan on grabbing this specific piece of the market.
This specific niche that eBay you know is one of these large companies encompass by doing X and where
you are going to do it better than them by X Y and Z.
And here is how you start to build out your minimum viable product.
So for I mean like a very very quick example of the top of my head could be something like Amazon where
Amazon literally sells everything.
Right.
How if you're starting a sunglasses company how do you plan to compete with Amazon who can find any
sunglass or you know most sunglasses out there for a very competitive cost.
So you would then have to find who you are catering to and why you're better than what Amazon's sunglasses
market is currently at.
Obviously that is not their biggest biggest revenue driver but it allows you an advantage in one specific
area of this behemoth of a company which you can then begin to chip away at.
So sorry for the lengthy analogy and example but it's really important.
And so what is our competitive advantage here.
What separates us from all the gym apps out there.
Well first the one to specifically find spotter's is a very very sparse.
Right.
So one competitive advantage could be lower competition and social aspect.
Right.
And the second one I would say is we are going to eliminate the awkwardness we are going to make it
easy and fun.
So lets say eliminate awkwardness
and make it fun.
OK so you might be asking you know any any body can say that.
How are you exactly going to do that.
Well that is up to us when we design our the MVP so we need to make sure that in a scenario in which
you might ask somebody a stranger to spot you you eliminate that awkwardness and open up for you know
a delightful gym session.
So as you might expect as we're starting to really round this about you can really kind of throw on
features very very easily.
And that is something that a lot of people like I said in the other video end up doing.
And they don't stick to their core features enough and you can easily get carried away.
So one big one feature could be you have a schedule like that you input into the app and some people
can look at it and say you know like I would a mind part of you on this day or you can look and see
like when some people might be spotting you know like people who frequent the app and maybe try to go
on the days that they are scheduled in a scheduling component to the app would be a lot of development
and design work.
So that's another like really cool cool feature that we could probably do another one could be maybe
something where it shows how much you're willing to spot up to.
So you don't have a you know like 12 year old new beginner who's willing to spot you know some some
power left or right there might be some mismatch there.
So that's another one.
You could easily integrate a bunch of social aspects to it or you know like a chat per se.
Maybe something where you start even taking videos of your work out so you can also track your progress
with in the app.
There's so much you can do and but we need to focus in on keeping to our core competitive advantage
and our core functionality to create this MVP.
So the one feature I think we should keep is maybe somehow putting a a weight limit or you know comfortable
with with spotting X amount of weight right.
I think that's that's one thing that's crucial in order for the product to work like like we said with
the understanding and then taking them on a journey they need to finish the journey right.
So if we have all these barriers where these people can't find you know other spotters to help them
because we're we're not you know setting them up to succeed and find one they're not going to complete
the journey ever app and they're not probably not going to use it again.
So we want to add this component in and we want to play to our competitive advantage and we're got to
make our core functionality as streamlined as possible.
So here go ahead and open up a new project sketch new file and I'm just going to name this.
Wait me.
And go ahead and throw in our board.
I already have one in here and we are going to.
I am trying and failing here.
OK.
So I just spaced all these out a little bit.
So this is going to be our home screen.
And let's go ahead and make a navigation bars that are going to insert a rectangle
and a click and drag and we're going to bring this around 65 fine let's get rid of the borders.
And I want a nice bold strong color like our personality suggests.
So I am going to choose maybe like a deeper red.
I think that I'll be like really cool.
Was like a bold bold aggressive strong deep red.
Let's go ahead and insert some text and we'll type.
Wait me.
Feel free to have fun with this.
Choose a font that reflects reflects the personality as you see fit.
I'm going to go ahead and stick with proximo Nova extra bold and I'm going to make the text white so
it shows up a little better.
And I'm going to make sure that it is centered
and I'm going to snap the top to the center alignment of the navigation so that looks pretty cool.
So there's a couple of ways we can go about this.
The first one would be we could maybe have a huge button a very simple large button that says I need
a spot and then everybody else in the gym who has that same app could respond.
If they if they wanted to help out.
Right.
But the more I think about it the more I thought through the user scenario and something that you guys
are probably going to end up doing you know when you create your own apps and products is if I'm a beginner
or you know if I'm an experience left or right do I feel comfortable putting myself out there and making
the first move without any information at all.
Probably not.
And I think the rationale with people is going to be I would rather maybe just try my best then try
something where I have no information on how well it might be received how well my you know I'll send
I need help button might be received.
I don't know these people I don't know who is going to show up and help me.
There's a lot of unknowns.
So the second way we could approach it is maybe have the people who are willing to spot beyond the platform
and somehow check that they're available and when the person that needs a spot signs in they can easily
see who's there.
And like we had discussed before how much they are comfortable with spying.
So I think that is a great way to go about it.
It's simple and it ensures that if a spotter.
If somebody needs a spot there is going to be somebody there who is obviously willing to help them and
if nobody is there nobody will show up in the feed.
So we are we will minimize the amount of dead interactions that would happen.
So what we're going to do is let's go ahead and insert a rectangle right below the navigation be around
60 should be fine.
Let's get rid of the borders and I'm going to make this an off white just like we talked about before
you know kind of separating the screens off with off lights instead of lines looks really really nice.
And I am going to this is going to be like a location box right to ensure the user that you know we're
at the right location at the right gym.
So we'll say something like
well say spotters in at 24 Hour Fitness for example and let's go ahead.
I'm going to make a spotter's at seem like some sort of template text.
I will keep it maybe regular and I can change the color to a dark gray and then for the 24 hour fitness
this is going to be obviously what geolocation will be able to pick up you know where they are and let's
make this the color of our heads.
I'm just going to Control-C to find the next and extra bolt seems a little too bold.
I'll just go ahead and make it bold.
And that looks good.
So I'm going to hold down shift and I'm going to align this horizontally and vertically and let's go
ahead.
I want to find just like a little location icon I think that will look really nice to go ahead and open
up the Noun Project
and just type and location
so you can choose any one of these any one of these will do.
I kind of want to find one that's all.
Oh I like this one.
It's a cool one so go ahead and download it.
And I'm going to drop this right on my project again.
Of course it's 4000 by 4000 pixels or we're going to scale it down and let's double click going to edit
mode get rid of the text and the scale is down even more.
I'm just going to put this right by the location that looks nice.
And maybe we can you can make it whatever whatever color I'm going to kind of experiment here.
I mean it looks kind of cool just like a little subtle subtle taste to it.
So I want to go ahead and group these together.
Control.
We call this location
and then select the rectangle the off white rectangle centered horizontally and then like we have been
doing I might just offset it a couple of points to the right.
So that looks really really cool.
Now all we need to do now is make some sort of table or a feed that shows you know who is available
spot.
And this would obviously go right here.
So let's go ahead and do that actually.
We're going to insert a oval or a circle to zoom in and I mean I toggle the grid on with control G and
let's make this 60 by 60 I think that looks nice.
I'm also keeping this 20 points from the left.
So let's go ahead and uncheck the border.
And now we can insert some text and we'll have this say first name our first and last name.
That font size looks good.
And I'm just going to go ahead and hit enter or return.
And let's just type in like Max wait for that one.
You know specifically we want to display and we'll just say £250 we got a decently strong person max
weight and let's also kind of denote that this is an entered value and it's not some template text I'm
going to grab this read again.
And I am going to make this bold.
All right.
Cool so we have this textfield.
I'm going to highlight both of these the Oval and the text I'm going to group them.
Well first let's let's align them and then I'm going to group them.
Say user 1 let's say spot 1.
So that's great.
So maybe there could be a picture so you can you know see who is who is available and then what we could
also do is let us have a little area where like a little button that the person clicked to quickly ask
for a spot.
So these are all people who have somehow in their profile stated that they are willing to spot at this
location.
And they will pop up when they are within their location.
So let's go to the noun project again and let's type in ask and see what shows up.
Or even cooler.
Let's say in a way.
I think there would be a call
cool icon.
You know I don't know.
I you know I want to make one because I'm not seeing one that I really like.
So I'm going to go ahead and grab this dumbbell right on here.
Course it's 30000 by 30000 pixels.
Let's scale this down.
And going to edit mode you guys know the drill.
Get rid of the text.
Scale this down a little more
and so that looks good.
And I want like some sort of ask icon or something to indicate that you're asking for a spot not just
having a huge set of weights Let's type in ask
so find something that you guys like I am
going to choose maybe this guy is cool.
Let's go ahead and download it.
And I'm just going to go ahead and drag this right over the sketch whoa and let's scale this down again.
DoubleClick is going to get rid of the text.
We are looking good.
And I'm just going to put this right by our are Waites.
All right.
Now let's think of a cool color for this.
I'm not too sure.
Just mess around with it.
Think maybe orange Actually that looks.
I was caught right out the gate.
This looks like
you'll be at a gradient.
That doesn't look too bad.
OK.
And I put the question mark right behind it so that's cool.
Kind of like in that I'm going to go ahead and group these the ask for spot
and I want to make sure you have these line up with this right here.
I will go ahead and I'm going to toggle the grid on and make sure it's roughly 20 away.
We want this to be clickable still as well.
Sure looks like it is so let's go ahead and grab the spotter one and I'm going to align it just to be
safe.
Looks like it's all good to go.
And I'm going to group that B cell one.
OK so this is looking really nice.
Lastly what we need to do is just like the other just like audio tangle.
We want to create a line
and maybe even a rectangle behind it just so it's easier to line things up.
So I'm going to go ahead and insert a rectangle and I'm going to make it around hundred in five hundred
and five points.
Hi and I'm going to drag it right behind our cell ones.
Get rid of the borders and I am going to make it white.
So go ahead and with that rectangle highlighted go ahead and sell as well as we're going to center it
vertically align it vertically which looks like it is already.
And now let's go ahead and insert a line
toggle the grid on and we'll start with it all the way over here.
And while I'm holding down shift I'm going to drag it across the board
awesome.
And like we did with auto Tango's Well it's going to make the thickness point five because it looks
a lot cleaner and with the line and the rectangle selected Let's go ahead and align it to the bottom.
And now we can just go ahead and group all of these together so our line our cell and our rectangle
group it
and we have a pretty good looking cells so I'm going to bring it up to the top of the nav bar and I'm
going to rename it.
It's weird to use cell one getting really bat'leth naming these I saw one full maybe let's toggle the
grid off and let's see how it looks.
So it looks nice.
Looks good.
And just for the full effect I'm going to hold down option and drag down make one more so as we're building
this out you can probably learn probably already tell we could even have a list of people and then maybe
if they are unavailable this could be great great out icon.
But you'll notice that everything is super super minimal.
Right we have the call to action.
How do I how do I ask this person for a spot.
Right since already said that they're available their max.
Their first and last name and maybe what they look like.
That is all you would need in order to execute this in full.
And then lastly there's a couple of things we could do.
As far as menus go we could have a tab bar we could have a hamburger menu.
There's so many things.
But since this is an MVP you know we're trying to get this product out maybe in two weeks to test it
at our local gym or whatever.
I think this is fine.
And what I'm even thinking is maybe we just throw a profile icon up here just so we have a segue to
a profile where the user can obviously input their max weight and a picture.
So let's go ahead and find a profile icon.
This looks nice.
Go ahead and download it
and drag it onto the sketch board and let's scale this down.
Get rid of the text
and drag it all the way.
Turn up our
I'm going to make this around 30 31 30.
Doesn't matter.
Looks good either way.
And let's make the Phil White I on and make sure it's aligned with our title.
Yeah actually looks good.
OK.
One thing I did forget to do is group all of these things are icon.
Here is our title.
I want a title and here is the nafs.
Let's go ahead and group this.
We'll call this navigation.
And then this rectangle was in our location.
So I'm going to drag that in there make sure it's at the bottom so the icon and the text is visible.
That is really really sweet.
So just to recap really really clean minimum viable product.
The user is able to do everything that we set out for them to do.
We are honing in on eliminating the awkwardness.
Were making it fun.
This is super super crucial.
You want to think about the ideal use case scenario.
If I'm someone who might need a spot and I open it up and I already see people who are willing to do
that is a huge comfort for me because I already know that they're raising and raising their hand and
they're saying hey I'll help you out if you need it whereas another experience could be I tap a button
and it pings everybody in the gym that that is on this app.
Right.
And that might be a little awkward or uncomfortable for some.
So this is the best experience in my opinion.
That is super sleek and you know bare bones functionality.
And then we have our weight amount that that user is comfortable with spotting.
And then we have a call to action.
So this is a very very ideal MVP.
What I encourage you guys to do is there's a couple of things.
All right what happens when you click the ask spot button.
Is there some sort of confirmation.
Is there a micro interaction.
Go ahead and design that.
I want to see what you guys come up with as well as this profile button.
What does the profile look like.
Is it easy to input all of this information is it let's see reliable does it give off a strong simple
vibe.
So go ahead and do that.
Show me your designs.
Discord.
I'd love to see them and I will see you guys in the next video.