The Encourage Me application is intended to
lift people up in stressful times during their lives. Know a time when you are
especially stressed out? Mark it down through the optimizer application and you
will be blasted with a text message of encouragement from a famous
inspirational person of your choosing.
For this app you select your heroes
from history, television, comics, literature, and more and get encouraging quotes from them sent to your mobile device. Additionally, you will get
messages like “Would [Name of your inspirational figure] give up right now?” or
“You think your life is hard? I’m sure [Name of your inspirational figure] had
it easy…” for extra encouragement.
For the app you have to select time
options. You can either do periodic text blasts which come in intervals of time
or set out exact times for when you need encouragement or inspiration. For
example, if you are a middle school student who has a tough time at school, you
might want to be blasted with an inspirational text message when your last
class ends. Or if you are performing a stressful task, like cramming for an
exam, you can have a blast of encouragement sent to you continuously with
specific time gaps.
After you
select the time(s) you want to be encouraged, you can select the quotes from
people you want. Options are endless and the quotes come from quote websites.
Really popular inspirational people are preferable choices since they have been
quoted many times.
Such a nice idea! It seems like there would be issues with pulling information directly from different websites, though, especially if your application includes advertisements or has some other form of making money from the information it takes from that website.
ReplyDeleteGreat concept! Everybody needs a little pick me up every once in a while. I think instead of just quotes, however, a quick video would be beneficial. It'd be pretty funny/uplifting if I received a quick 10 second video of some random person saying "YOU'VE GOT THIS!" Granted, that would probably be a lot more work and difficult to do, but I think that would be cool if possible. Or you could always send a link to a cute kitten video, because everybody loves cute kittens.
ReplyDeleteThis would be an awesome app that I would use. With the everyday struggles that life brings sometimes what people lack is simply motivation. They feel trapped, but knowing that famous people have gone through the same thing is uplifting. Great idea!
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