casually.io brainstorm

Jan 26, 22

Ok, next on our list of domains to bring to life is casually.io.

Previously when trying to brainstorm projects, I tend to jump in with both feet into the building process without a fully fleshed out idea, so as you can imagine I tend to run out of steam pretty quickly.

Therefore, I think I will just spend today’s post investigating what casually.io should be, rather than how we are going to build it (seems pretty obvious when I write it down, heh)

So, to remove the risk of building something and then looking for a problem to solve, I think it would be interesting to come up with some things that are bugging me in day to day life, and see if we can make an app that helps to solve the problem. A name like casually.io is quite generic, so it does leave quite a wide scope for what the app should actually do. Anyway, i’m waffling - here is the list of things that are mildly irritating me at the moment:

  1. The gym is too busy after new year
  2. I have increased my activity levels, and my legs are sore
  3. People posting wordle scores (yes, I’m sorry)
  4. Unable to come up with ideas for what casually.io should do (woOOooo… meta)

I have inadvertently ranked these in order - with number 1 being head and shoulders above the other 3 combined. I’m not sure I can make a Rails app that bans people from my gym, or even monitors how busy it is, unless… The gym may have an API endpoint I can hit that returns how busy the gym is. Buuutt, even if they do, it’s not really that useful as I could just query that directly, without the use of Rails app.

Ok - I am ending the post here for now, as it is actually time for me to go to the aformentioned gym. I will continue to brainstorm and will make an edit to this post on my return…

Update - I am back from the gym, und holy shit it was busy

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I am very disapointed with the human race for this mild inconvenience - I only hope this doesn’t affect my judgement when brainstorming ideas for the new website

  1. The gym is too busy after new year

  2. I have increased my activity levels, and my legs are sore
  3. People posting wordle scores (actually i’m not sorry)
  4. Still unable to cement a decent idea for the website. I think I will try again tomorrow <3