Sean M Everett

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Time: A New Model [Part 2]

iPhone App Idea

Yes, another photo app, but only to prove a point.

Imagine you can only store 1 photo at a time in this app. Your only choice is to leave that photo as the best you can possibly do or take another photo that’s better.

The app automatically captures the amount of time between uploading the previous photo and a new photo.

Then, your friends get to vote:  is this new photo actually better their eyes? If so, click the Facebook Like button (this helps with the virality part and getting more people to vote). If not, then the clock keeps ticking. Remember, quality is in the mind of the audience, not yours.

Your goal of this “game” then, is three-fold:

  1. Keep taking better pictures
  2. Reduce the amount of time between pictures
  3. Get more people to vote on the quality of your pictures

That seems like a pretty basic app. I might actually make that puppy.

Note:  for background on why we would want to do something like this, see Time:  A New Model [Part 1].