[Off-topic] AndroidFan2:
Hi, my name is Gazi and I’m an 18 year old student (economics) in the Netherlands.

I’m working on a business plan for a schoolproject. We’ve got to write a business plan of a product we want to launch. After brainstorming for a couple of days I got the idea to launch a mobile application for students at our school.

For my business plan I need 2 people to answers some questions of mine, so I can get more information about the financial and technical feasibility. I would really appreciate it if you would take the time to answer a couple of questions for me. I was actually going to ask these questions to an app builder from the Netherlands, but he just called me telling me he doesn’t have any time anymore, and I need to finish this asap because the business plan needs to be finished this Friday.

It would probably not even take 10 min to answer these questions and I would really really appreciate it if you guys could help me out.

I will first give some general information about the idea of the application I have in mind:

I want to call this app ‘’App2Date’’. The purpose of App2Date will be to make it easier for students to study. It’s the solution for problems which many students are coping with. App2Date will have functions such as:

-	The ability for teachers to let students know when they will not be at school, or are too late (for example, because of traffic). Many students of our school have got to travel around 1hr til they’re at school. It sucks to hear the teachers not there after having traveled for over an hour at 7AM.

-	Giving push notifications of important messages on ELO (ELO is our ‘’electronical study environment’’ which is accessible via internet right now. We can see announcements teachers have published, and have access to study material such as powerpoints and word doc.s

These functions are the 2 functions we definitely want to use in the app. IF it is possible (technically and financially) there are some other features we would like to use:

-	Push notifications from Osiris (Osiris is the online database with our results  accessible via internet atm)

-	Having access to your timetable

I understand you can not give precise answers at some questions (for example the financial ones), that’s okay’. I don’t need precise answers. I just want to have an idea of what amount of money I should think, would it cost more than 1000$, more than 10.000$, or just 200$, etc.

Questions:

Orientation

-	For how long have you been building apps?

-	Do you operate in some kind of category apps (games, social media, etc.)?

-	Do you make applications for your own, or do you mostly make applications for companies who ask you to?

Costs (general)

-	What’s the average price for building an application?

o	One off costs

o	Fixed costs

o	Other costs?

-	Is it much more expensive to build an app that is connected with the internet?

-	Which criteria are most important for the price of building an applications?

App2Date in general

-	What is your first impression of App2Date?

-	Do you think there is a market for App2Date?

o	Why?

-	How long do you think it will take to build an application such as App2Date?

Technical

-	Is it possible to make so many different external systems work together in 1 mobile app?

-	Is this possible by linking the app to these external systems, or would it mean you’d have to build different systems within the app itself?

-	Is there a function of which you think it would be impossible to make it work?

-	If you would have to make a top 3 of the functions you think that would take least effort to build in the app, what would your top 3 be like?

Choose from:

	Notifications from teachers who are late

	Notifications from announcements from ELO

	Online database with your results

	Timetable

	Ability to check if there are any classrooms free (this can now only be seen by the schools system)

Financial

-	What do you think it would cost to build App2Date with the functions I would definitely want to use? (notifications from announcements on ELO + notifications from teachers)?

-	Which functions would cost the most (and about how much? $1000, $100? Etc.)

-	If you would have to make a top 3 of the functions you think that would financially be feasible the best, what would your top 3 be like?

Choose from:

	Notifications from teachers who are late

	Notifications from announcements from ELO

	Online database with your results

	Timetable

	Ability to check if there are any classrooms free (this can now only be seen by the schools system)

-	Could you tell me, for each function, what you think it would cost (about how much?)

-	How do YOU think it would be the best to make money out of this?

Again, I would really appreciate it if you could answer these questions to me. You’d be my lifesaver. Also I didn't know if this was the right place to post this thread, so apologies if this is in the wrong section.

Thanks in advance