Thursday, February 11, 2016

Idea Napkin No. 1 (Week 6)


  1. My name is Jary Kim and I am a student at the University of Florida. I have professional skills and experience in interpersonal communication, social media, digital marketing, creativity, and time management. My non-professional interests are in cooking, exercising, and traveling. I aspire to work in a global marketing team of an international corporation or digital marketing in a smaller firm that caters to those corporations. I hope to relocate to New York City, Seoul, or London for work after I graduate.
  2. Health Bite is an app that will ot only provide healthy and clean-eating recipes for college students, but they can upload photos or videos of their creations to earn points. After reaching a certain number of points, students can redeem it at certain restaurants or cafes in Gainesville that mirror with the app’s values of healthy and well-balanced eating. The app will partner with these local eateries, such as Cymplify, The Daily Green, Karma Cream, Zoe’s Kitchen etc.
  3. I am offering to students in college (University of Florida) to eat a more healthy and well-balanced diet for their day to day meals by creating an app that offers quick and easy food and snack recipes. They are healthy and power-packed for a more balanced diet for college students.
  4. They care because due to the different levels of stress that incoming freshmen are placed into, such as being away from home and new, scary experiences of college classes and exams, students find it easy to stuff our faces by stress-eating. It doesn’t help that the dining hall is basically an all-you-can-eat buffet. Students can find themselves eating badly because it’s convenient to cook up something that’s fast or just simply eat out. A lot of college students become unhealthy eaters, consuming meals that are high in calories and sodium, and also a diet that consist of mostly carbs. My app, called Health Bite, will be a resolve to change eating habits and diet by encouraging students to cook meals, snacks, smoothies, desserts, that are balanced and made of up good ingredients. They are quite easy to make, does not create a lot of dishes, and satisfying to eat. My goal is that other students will replicate my recipes and eat healthily as well. Then they will become accustomed to cooking good, nutritious and yummy meals at home.
  5. My core competencies would be my personality traits that can connect to the target market for this app. As an outgoing and extroverted person, it's easy for me to meet new people, talk to them, get a sense of what they want and need, and have effective communication to obtain information. Another is that I thrive in challenging, fast-paced environments as it motivates to pursue a project and see to its end. It also ensures that I have strong time management and organizational skills.
In evaluation of these elements, I definitely believe that all of these factors effectively fit together. I do not think that there are any critical weaknesses in my business model, as my communication skills will effectively enable me to gage what my target market may need and want from my app. In addition, I truly am passionate and enthusiastic behind the core ideas for my app.

4 comments:

  1. Jary,

    Love your idea! I think that's a really good plan, and you've clearly thought it through very well.
    I honestly don't have any critiques because it seems like you already planned this before this class even, and if not, I think it would be a good idea to pursue it.

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  2. Jary, this idea is really something that could be beneficial to students all around the country. I think many find it difficult to eat healthy because of the time it takes and because of the lack of recipes that are easy to find and make. Your app solves this problem and allows students to earn rewards for uploading their healthy creations which will encourage many people to get involved. I think one reason people chose to eat unhealthy is also due to the convenience of fast food and other unhealthy food choices. Perhaps as an extension of your idea you could include a grocery or healthy food delivery system? If students were given the foods they needed to create these recipes it would be even more convenient and the excuse "I don't have time to go shopping" would be eliminated.

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  3. Hi Jary,
    I am in love with your idea. I am one of those persons who loves to follow healthy accounts on Instagram and download healthy apps in my phone just to try to be healthy and get motivation. I have not seen or either read anything like you are describing here. I think is a very creative idea and would motivate lots of college students that like to have a healthy life style. Here is my blog. Good luck.
    http://nataliagarcia2022.blogspot.com/

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  4. Hey Jary,
    I think your idea is a very good idea and think it is very important for college students to maintain good eating habits. You also did a good job of expressing your skills and interests and connecting them with your idea. It is also cool how you want to market globally and use your skills around the world. Here is the link to my blog http://ufshanebrown.blogspot.com/2016/02/shane-brown-idea-napkin-no-1.html

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