Hello, I'm creating this thread in order to chronicle my creation of Zelse.
Zelse is an app which basically gives you points for getting out of the house and seeing things in your city. There are missions in your city, like "take a picture of the legislature for 300 points" or "eat the Carbonara at Nello's for 500 points". The idea is to get people out of their house and see the city they live in, and get rewarded with points and badges for doing so.
I am not doing any programming at all, it's all done through Claude + Cursor. I use Claude in order to break down systematically what I need to do, and then Cursor takes my prompts and builds the app off of that.
There are two main ways I am aiming to monetize this app: have a premium subscription that allows people to create their own missions that other users can go on, as well as "parties", where a person can set up a glowing rainbow mission that only lasts for a certain span of time. Other people can show up to these parties and earn points.
The other way I am going to monetize is through partnerships with businesses and restaurants (primarily). They can spend $20/month in order to be a mission on the app. I also have my sights on getting bigger companies to do deals with me later if the usership grows (for example McDonald's or Subway creating missions for their fast food restaurants).
At this point I only have missions in my local city (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), but I will expand it pretty soon to include all Canadian cities and then all US cities.
I tried to follow the Millionaire Fastlane rules of creating something massively scalable that can potentially impact thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people.
Check out what I have so far: React + Vite + Tailwind
I will chronicle my progress as I proceed, but by the end of the summer I should have a finished web app, Apple app, and Android app. After that, I will work on marketing it and potentially finding investors.
Zelse is an app which basically gives you points for getting out of the house and seeing things in your city. There are missions in your city, like "take a picture of the legislature for 300 points" or "eat the Carbonara at Nello's for 500 points". The idea is to get people out of their house and see the city they live in, and get rewarded with points and badges for doing so.
I am not doing any programming at all, it's all done through Claude + Cursor. I use Claude in order to break down systematically what I need to do, and then Cursor takes my prompts and builds the app off of that.
There are two main ways I am aiming to monetize this app: have a premium subscription that allows people to create their own missions that other users can go on, as well as "parties", where a person can set up a glowing rainbow mission that only lasts for a certain span of time. Other people can show up to these parties and earn points.
The other way I am going to monetize is through partnerships with businesses and restaurants (primarily). They can spend $20/month in order to be a mission on the app. I also have my sights on getting bigger companies to do deals with me later if the usership grows (for example McDonald's or Subway creating missions for their fast food restaurants).
At this point I only have missions in my local city (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), but I will expand it pretty soon to include all Canadian cities and then all US cities.
I tried to follow the Millionaire Fastlane rules of creating something massively scalable that can potentially impact thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people.
Check out what I have so far: React + Vite + Tailwind
I will chronicle my progress as I proceed, but by the end of the summer I should have a finished web app, Apple app, and Android app. After that, I will work on marketing it and potentially finding investors.
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