Pitching by companies

So we are almost halfway through CS3216. The journey has been tough and mixed with ups and downs. This week we had several companies/individuals coming to pitch their ideas, hoping students would develop their ideas for them(some for a charge).

Had a chat with my assignment 2 group mate who is a developer and I could clearly see that she was underwhelmed by the quality of ideas. Other than the first pitch about 3D visualization, the rest were simply a mere representation of the web on mobile devices or a platform to store content for easy access on mobile. At the end of the discussion, she felt that all these ideas are too easy for the people for CS3216!

Back to my second assignment. The idea generation process was seemingly harder than the facebook application. We took almost a week to brainstorm and still could not come to a conclusion what we should develop. As far as our discussion went, the conclusion is that there isnt any problems that nobody has tackled before. After throwing out a list of ideas, we decided to make a task manager app that is way better than anything available out there.

We will be having a pitching party this coming friday. It should be a very fun and interesting event and I am really excited about it.