DeskNearMe APP

To let people find available desk in coffeshop/co-working space around him to work in certain time.

Preferred License

•  I propose to use Affero GPL (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html)

Why this app is needed

Freelancers, open source lovers and startup folks regularly need to find a desk outside their home for using their computer in a calm and productive environment. But it is not always easy to find those places. Individually, users have hard time to build their own list of places which fit their computer-related (or not) activities, but as a group, it can be pretty fast to gather and use a collection of those places. We need an app to help those users to share and retreive the location and commodity information of their favorite working places.

• As an example, the app could display the following information:
  • Where those places are.
  • For each place:
    • does it provide wireless?
    • does it provide power?
    • what is the close time?
    • what is the price per hour?
    • what is the minimum price (food, drink, or other) to stay the full day?
    • what is the duration limit for users to stay, if any?

User Stories

Software Freelancer

• what to write here? as a user, how to use the app?
• yes, you could use comment button to write comments.

• usually works from afternoon to mid-night (probably pm1:00 to am4:00)
• probably go to co-working space or coffee shop 
  • 1 day a week.
  • 2days-3days a week. 
  • 7 days a week.
• want
  • find nearest desk to work  via website or an app.
• because
  • they want to social with other people in the break time
    • they feel longly when they work along.
• cares about
  • wreless speed
  • power
  • price

Selected Tech for prototype (target for hackaton)

• backend : ethercal
• frontend : 
  • react.js?
  • 
    

Selected Tech post-prototype

• backend : To be defined, a server could provide additional control and logic compared to raw data.
• frontend : 
  • react.js?
  • android app.

Behavior Design

Contribute Desk Information

Any people can add a place with 

• place name
• open hours
• pricing
• equipment
  • internet speed
  • power 
• offer foods
• offer drinks

Find A Desk

As a software freelancer, I launch the app on my phone, the app display nearest desk around him in

• a map?
• a list in card style? (hychen prefered this one by default, since map loading is slow, user)
• or both of the above

• The user doesn’t necessary need the nearest coffee. If he can find himself on a map and if the app displays places on a map, this "nearest coffee" feature is not needed.
• here is defined the how people interact with app, how app interface looks like, not the feature.

Edit My Preference

As a software freelancer, I prefer the space has good light, fast wireless speed, comfortable table and chair. of course, the space should provides some drinks, simple food I could order.

so I

Feature Spec

• click ’Preference Button
  • the preference page
    • is excepted to show up
    • and has a form with 
      • internet speed