Testing the Hypothesis Part 2

With this second round of interviews, I went out to find people who fell outside of my unmet need. I asked each of the five students about their college experience and why they wouldn't be interested in an app that helps to organize class time and homework due dates. 

The first guy I interviewed was a strictly UF Online student. He noted that because all of his lectures were online he got emails when the lectures had been posted, and then would do the homework at the same time. For all of his lectures, they would mention which assignments were due and go over them in detail. For him, it was simply a matter of making time at the end of his day to sit down and do everything in one go. 

Next, I interviewed my roommate who is in grad school here. For him, he goes to the lab every day and is in an environment where everyone around him operates on a similar schedule, and they work together as a team. With everyone doing the lab, going to lectures and discussing the assignments, he has built up a network of people who already hold him responsible for keeping up. 

I met with a girl I know who spends drop add week making her semester calendar and asked if she would be interested in this product. Surprisingly, she would prefer to organize manually. She is very detail orientated and thinks that by doing things by the hand she will better remember them, and have a more personal attachment to all of her work. 

After those three it was difficult to find someone who wasn't at least partially interested in this product student wise. So I expanded my audience. I asked two different professors to get their opinions. Similarly, they remarked on how assignment due dates weren't relevant to them, and all the timing information they need was easily programmable into outlooks calendar. Since UF gives out Outlook accounts to students and faculty they used it for every aspect of their work and were used to the program. 

Inside the Boundary: 

Who: Students across various colleges who are taking at least one in-person class. 

What: A unified calendar to show assignments, class times, office hours, and other events or agendas. 

Why: UF puts all of the necessary information to do well in classes across multiple platforms for those in in-person classes. 

Outside the Boundary:

Who: Students who are in a tight college community where information is readily shared and unified, professors and other faculty who are not taking classes, and fanatics who are have found the way that best works for them in this environment. 

What: A unified system is not needed because they already have a system in place to catch all relevant topics that my product would cover. 

Why: They either already have a group or website that they readily rely on or have devised a system that works for them.