Hello everyone, after I finished reading the book "The millionnaire fastlane" and the "Great rat race espace", I went to search for ideas of business which could help people to answer their needs. After sometimes, I found this idea :
"P2P app to sell your food leftovers"
Let's imagine you are cooking in your kitchen, let's say that you are cooking a delicious Mac'n cheese. However, you found yourself with a very big plate of mac'n cheese. I mean, it could feed an entire army. Usually, you put what you didn't eat in the freezer. Another problem here : You don't have a freezer, which means you need to put it into the refrigerator at the risk of letting it spoil (If you don't eat it in the next days) and thus, wasting it. This is where my idea come into play :
My idea is to create a P2P app in which you can sell your food leftovers to anyone who don't want to cook but eat delicious homemade food while avoiding traditionnal fast food harmful to your heath. Which means that, if you sell your remaining mac'n cheese on the market, the user who bought it will come to your location and pick it up. Not only you didn't dump this same plate to the bin but also, you won some money from this sale.
Prior to this thread, I ran my idea through the CENTS framework to see if it is doable, here's what I found :
C for Control : Since it will be an Android / iOS app, I am dependant on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. This dependance can be reduced if I create a website for computer users.
E for Entry : You need to know how to developp an app on Android, iOS and eventually have the technical skills (HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL at least) to build a website... And this is only for the technical part. So yeah, the entry barrier is high for this one. This is not a problem since I have an engineering degree in cybersecurity and have no problem to learn new computer skills.
N for Need : Based on this article, food waste is a world plague. Roughly one-third of the food produced is wasted, which is a real problem (At least to me.) So, creating an app which does not only encourage people to sell their remaining food to other instead to dump it while winning money and helping the planet (I will come back to this later) doesn't seems a bad idea to me. (Please hurt my feelings if you think it is a garbage-tier idea)
T for Time : I will need a lot of time to develop the app but once it is created and functional, then it's good, I will just have to convince people to use it. My goal here will be to charge a fee on every transaction made. For example, if you sell a part of Mac'n cheese to someone for 2$, the transaction will be charged with a 20% fee (0,40 $) in top of the initial price tag (Thus, the client pays 2,40 $ in total) which will cover the maintenance costs of the apps and website at least. If there is enough users on the app, maybe I can try to put in ads to gain more money.
S for Scale : Since I want to developp a phone app, everyone with a smartphone can be a user of my app. Also, if this idea is executed upon, everyone will have the possibility to download the app on their phone and start using it straight away.
In addition to this framework, here's the list of benefits of my idea (if executed upon) unique :
Thank you for your time and I wish you a nice day.
Prantice
N.B. : Since it is my first post on this forum (Excluding my first thread within the introduction section), I made sure that this post isn't breaking any forum rules but feel free to tell me if I did something wrong by creating this post.
EDIT : Correcting some syntax error.
Resources :
earth.org
"P2P app to sell your food leftovers"
Let's imagine you are cooking in your kitchen, let's say that you are cooking a delicious Mac'n cheese. However, you found yourself with a very big plate of mac'n cheese. I mean, it could feed an entire army. Usually, you put what you didn't eat in the freezer. Another problem here : You don't have a freezer, which means you need to put it into the refrigerator at the risk of letting it spoil (If you don't eat it in the next days) and thus, wasting it. This is where my idea come into play :
My idea is to create a P2P app in which you can sell your food leftovers to anyone who don't want to cook but eat delicious homemade food while avoiding traditionnal fast food harmful to your heath. Which means that, if you sell your remaining mac'n cheese on the market, the user who bought it will come to your location and pick it up. Not only you didn't dump this same plate to the bin but also, you won some money from this sale.
Prior to this thread, I ran my idea through the CENTS framework to see if it is doable, here's what I found :
C for Control : Since it will be an Android / iOS app, I am dependant on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. This dependance can be reduced if I create a website for computer users.
E for Entry : You need to know how to developp an app on Android, iOS and eventually have the technical skills (HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL at least) to build a website... And this is only for the technical part. So yeah, the entry barrier is high for this one. This is not a problem since I have an engineering degree in cybersecurity and have no problem to learn new computer skills.
N for Need : Based on this article, food waste is a world plague. Roughly one-third of the food produced is wasted, which is a real problem (At least to me.) So, creating an app which does not only encourage people to sell their remaining food to other instead to dump it while winning money and helping the planet (I will come back to this later) doesn't seems a bad idea to me. (Please hurt my feelings if you think it is a garbage-tier idea)
T for Time : I will need a lot of time to develop the app but once it is created and functional, then it's good, I will just have to convince people to use it. My goal here will be to charge a fee on every transaction made. For example, if you sell a part of Mac'n cheese to someone for 2$, the transaction will be charged with a 20% fee (0,40 $) in top of the initial price tag (Thus, the client pays 2,40 $ in total) which will cover the maintenance costs of the apps and website at least. If there is enough users on the app, maybe I can try to put in ads to gain more money.
S for Scale : Since I want to developp a phone app, everyone with a smartphone can be a user of my app. Also, if this idea is executed upon, everyone will have the possibility to download the app on their phone and start using it straight away.
In addition to this framework, here's the list of benefits of my idea (if executed upon) unique :
- Planet-friendly : Every transaction will be charge with a percentage fee based on the price asked by the vendor (Let's say 25%). 20% of the total amount of the transaction will comeback to my pocket while the 5% remaining will be donated to a charity organization fighting against food-waste.
- Help users (and the society) to fight against food-waste : You are not required to be a professionnal to sell on the app. If you are someone who loves cooking but hate to dump eatable food, well this app is for you.
- Help users to win pocket money : While fighting against food waste, you win pocket money by selling your food remaining. Isn't it wonderful ?
- Buy food from well-reviewed peers : A big problem of buying from an unknown person is : How can I be sure that the food I bought from him or her is not garbage ? Well, by creating a review system within the app, you will not have to worry about the quality of the food sold by the vendor.
Thank you for your time and I wish you a nice day.
Prantice
N.B. : Since it is my first post on this forum (Excluding my first thread within the introduction section), I made sure that this post isn't breaking any forum rules but feel free to tell me if I did something wrong by creating this post.
EDIT : Correcting some syntax error.
Resources :
20 Facts About Food Waste
Here are 25 shocking facts about food waste, which negatively affects the environment, the economy, food security, and nutrition.
earth.org
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