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An app that allows you to ask a question to users within a certain radius
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jnikola Aug 30, 2021
Sports and Skills "Tinder"
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THE PROBLEM:
Have you ever decided to try a new sport, have already bought all the necessary equipment, but didn't know who is the best club/coach for you? There are so many clubs and personal trainers these days and often you can’t decide where you'd like to go. Also, if you are shy and introverted, you wouldn't want to spend time with a coach you know nothing about.
What if you have the skill, the experience and are ready to teach/train someone privately or perhaps even in groups? You need to attract customers who know nothing about you and you are sure you can win them over with your personality?
THE IDEA:
The idea is to create an application that would easily and quickly connect the coach with the future athlete/recreationalist. The application would, as on Tinder, offer the ability to search for coaches or future athletes/recreational athletes by simply scrolling/swiping. Filters that could help you to easily find the desired person are: sport, location, gender, age, interests, ...
THE CONCEPT:
When registering, a person should fill certain data on physical characteristics: age, gender, height, weight, what sport he/she wants to do, where he/she lives, how often he/she can train and finally write something about him/herself to make the coach get to know the person better before matching. Also, the same goes for coaches.
THE MAIN AIM:
The app aims to speed up the search for the desired coach so that people who have just started to think more intensely or have decided to start playing sports do not give up too soon just because they have not found the "right coach". The app also wants to make it easier for coaches just starting out to find clients who would they enjoy teaching7training.
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The fun and doable way to get people off the couch
CB
This is a really great idea and similar to what I had very often in mind to get people off the couch. Especially nowadays, where we all had to skip as many contacts as possible, options such as finding a coach in your local sports team/gym/circle of friends by personal communication are just dimmed. The nearer future would be a good time to update people online on who can coach who in your local environment/in your city and what would be required to just get up and have fun with sports.
Of course, the application can be expanded for outdoor/indoor activities and further necessary details. What I would like to mention is to exclude insurance concerns in advance if trainers are not completely honest about their qualifications. Also, the cost-benefit relationship (i.e. what you have to do to register and get started) should not be too high because the potential client might give up too soon. That’s why a “simply scrolling/swiping” approach sounds really good.
I would support the idea to generate a sports-only platform and separate other skill platforms (maybe within the application itself) for reasons of simplicity.
If an application like this is done properly and in an attractive way, it would be a win-win situation for everybody! Bravo!
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Perhaps a secondary capability of the app could be to help you find people who want to have some casual fun.
For instance, if I'm bored and feel like going to the beach to play some frisbee, soccer or touch rugby, I could make a post on the app and wait for some locals in the area to respond. I can see this working for a number of activities where you need one or more partners.
There are messaging groups and Facebook groups for communities that allow this, but you'd need to be a member already. With this app, you could either search for activities in your area or simply change your availability status to indicate that you would like to be invited if anything happens.
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jnikola3 years ago
Yes, I agree. That would be cool! Users should be able to find other users who want to play/do something. It could be done by separating the app in "FIND A BUDDY" and "FIND A TUTOR/COACH". What you are proposing would be the "FIND A BUDDY" segment and would allow you to post proposals (location, time, type of activity, the number of buddies wanted) or filter the posts by the mentioned criteria. It would be great for anybody willing to play frisbee, golf or need two more candidates for soccer. It would be much easier than being a member of numerous Facebook groups, I agree. Great suggestion!
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Really love the idea
I am a fitness coach and prefer to grow organically rather than going for social media just because I feel like I am wasting my time selling my services rather than refining them.
Thus, a platform like this would be a perfect way to find new clients apart from the conventional from mouth to ear model I work with.
Finally, concerning the business model, I think that people who are selling their services (aka the coach) should pay a monthly fee subscription to appear on the app. They might also have access to rewards given the number of clients they got at the end of the year. This way, it will assure that the coach will stay for at least a year on the platform, and would give incetives tp the coaches to get better and better and refine their craft rather than fall for marketing scams.
Great idea man!
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jnikola3 years ago
I'm glad to hear people like it, especially when it comes from the end-user! Concerning the monthly or annual fee, I would definitely agree with you.
A different problem I see is that when the coach pays for something, it expects something in return, and, in the early phases of the platform, that could be tricky due to a small number of users. How could we go big without using classic marketing methods of mass online/flyer advertisement (it would be the same if people fighting against plastic bags used plastic banners for the protest)?
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Hamza Guessous3 years ago
J. Nikola Honeslt, if the fee is not too high, and the coaches get to display what they know like a website, pictures, or even better get help to market their profile, then it would be worth the price. Offering help with marketing might be an easy way to hook the coach, and thus bring more suppliers then customers.
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Sounds like a dating app with a cool backstory:)
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