Roadmaster
Encourage mobile homes experience for your parents.
What Your parents feel like traveling and they want to experience road trip like if they were 23. Why not testing recreational vehicle for a unique trip ? Roadmaster helps put them in touch with other camper van users and travelers. In this app they will find every tips they need to prepare their trip, maps with best camping and car park, travelers in the same area, a map which locates the closest toilets, a GPS...
Who Roadmaster is designed for parents in order to enables them to discover road trip in recreational vehicle.
When Every time you are getting ready for a camper van road trip or when you are already on the road and looking for tips, parking maps and so on.
Where Directly on your smartphone so that you have all information gathers in one tools. wherever they feel like moving away from their routine or having a week-end off
why Because there is no such thing as an app designed especialy for parents who want to experience new traveling ways. This would make it easier and encourage them to experience mobile homes. and discover wherever they feel fancy to by their own
Target
for whom?
The main target of Roadmaster is a couple of adults who are facing their so-called 'midlife-crisis'. They want to hit the road and discover the country by themselves with a new way of travelling. They are looking for adventure and autonomy, but are not yet ready for it, meaning that they don't have the particular skills to do so. It targets adults that earn an average revenue or lower revenue, that can't afford or don't want to be a "basic tourist" that hires a tour-operator to organize their trip. They are also kind of hipsters and want to recall the "good old days" of the sixties. They are more likely urban dwellers and want to escape their routine.
Service offered
what? how?
This app is made to be used by adults, so it needs to stay clear and easy to use. People would be able to share tips on a personal page with tags. The interface of the app will be very easy to use, a bit like Instagram, with a first page which is your "personal page", a second about "enter your route", a third about "share your experiences", a fourth about "looking for tips". People can react to any post and may discuss with each other. People can share tips and experiences with hashtags and locate their places. They may even can meet each other, if they want to.
This app is also a new way for companies to advertise. It is using Geofending built within the app so that campers will see your ads on the road when they are near to your location, for instance a farmer will be able to sell his fruits to whomever comes across his farm.
Web interface
How does your project relates to Web? Describe use cases
On the future website of your service, how will users access your service? Describe scenario of utilisation
Roadmaster is a mobile application in that it is related to the web. Because web connection is not always working on the road the app provides a no-Wifi mode. You can check all the information you need whenever you want if you enter your trip in the app and the AI within this app will download all that can be useful for you. Roadmaster is on your side at all steps of your way.
For instance, Mr Davis visited a very good camping in Portugal with a huge swimming pool and he wants to recommand it, so he may go to Roadmaster, write his comment, add the location of the camping, give it grade, share it with the #camping and #Portugal and even more possibilities. Then he is going to visit the Duro Valley but wants to sleep for free on a parking. Then, he may go on the app, enter his planned route and then the app will show him every parking available for a night stay and it will also download every information that may be usefull for him to know : toilets, view points, sunset hours and where to look at it, even a trafic simulation will be included (but it would work with the internet whereas other options are downloadable).
Benchmark
List concurrents / relative projects and describe how they relate/differentiate to your project
- Park4night - website - this app enables RV users to share nice parking spots. It is based on a community of users. 56.000 places are registered with pictures and comments. This relates to our app but it focus only on parking spots contrarly to our app which provides tips and puts in touch with others users.
- Waze - website - this is the GPS app with the biggest community of users in the world. This relates to Roadmaster because it can guide the users but it focus only on GPS function. The advanatge of Roadmaster is that it gathers all you need in ONE app.
References
books/films/articles/...
- Into the Wild, Sean Penn. It is about leaving everything to hit the road (even if the end is not the goal). It is about travelling and new experiences for adults who are bored with their everyday life.
- Routard article . This article is about travelling in RV and its advantages, how to choose the vehicle and some others topics.