Saturday, June 25, 2011

Project Idea 1: Article creation app for iOS/Android devices

This is one of the idea that I have for one of my next project, hopefully this can be realized and provide stable income to be subsidized for Project Idea 2. (Post coming up later)

Problem
Current blog/article/text editing software for android/iOS forces you to switch between apps when you want to insert media links for the articles you are creating. This breaks your train of thoughts and not really productive for content creators to create articles on the go with the virtual keyboard, non windowing system and limited screen estate.

Proposed product
When the content is being typed, the software would process the text typed and actively try to match the nouns/verb to online services for images/video/maps with corresponding tags for the noun/verb. The product might also have a server that is tied in to each user accounts for their own media stored in the server. So when the user selects a particular word they can select to insert media retrieved automatically in the background. The software should have a interface for the user to select the desired media.

With the background retrieval and also with let say voice to text capability to let the software knows that you want to insert pic/map/sound/video for spoken word. E.g. I went to speak "Picture Bankok",  the software would recognise the work Picture Bankok and retrieve pics from let's say Flickr with appropriate copyright licensing and insert the link with the work Bankok. This would circumvent the need to switch between apps.

The product with the background retrieval and voice to text should aid in content creators in creating contents faster on tablet/mobile devices.

Market
Content creators

Feasibility
Workable but complicated to piece everything together, also support for upload to different blog engines would also require lots of knowledge and expertises.

All feedbacks are welcome!

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