Working on a new App. Am I wasting my time?

[Naxas]

Hey guys, I'm currently working on an app, it is semi slow going project as I work 10 hrs. a day at my day job. I'm thinking it's probably going to launch late this year. Is there that much interest in this, I was thinking of running a kickstarter to help me out, but didn’t know if I would get enough support. So here it goes…

The app would connect to a website where your data is stored kind of like iherp but in no way affiliated, and also much better.

I would make the App free but the kicker is I plan on a basic app (for free) and an advanced app at the cost of 1.99 (Maybe less but not more) to get access to the breeding tracker (among other things). both apps info would carry over to the website at no additional charge.

As a breeder myself and a programmer I feel I'm in a unique position to create something useful here.

the free app for tracking shed, eating, vet visits, weight, behavior, defecation, physical abnormality, growth photos etc. will be supported by an advertisement based system. The advertisement system will be small and only used to support back end operations, (servers, updates etc.)


"among other things"

The Pay app will not have advertisements.

I plan on making a secure marketplace with a payment system similar to Paypal with payment plan options to be set by seller (autopay, etc.). (Free app users will be able to buy from this market but not able to sell.)

The marketplace will allow you to post animals for sale, with the ability to allow potential buyers to see all info tracked on that animal since it was an egg (feeding, shedding, general husbandry, etc.) and also the parents (Where they came from, Issues such as “wobbles”, Husbandry, etc.). This will allow responsible breeders more free time as it will make e-mailing and phone communications unnecessary, as well as selling their animals faster. This will also eliminate irresponsible breeders as their animals would be unlikely to sell without the for mentioned information.

A small side note: Double het animals would be better tracked making them slightly easier to sell

- buy (no trade offers will be allowed here)
- sell
- trade
- the ability to offer less with a 1 click deny or accept for seller. I plan on making a back end minimum accepted amount so the seller will only receive this if the minimum is met. Otherwise the offer will be auto rejected on a delay so people would not be able to keep offering until the minimum is met, essentially "masking" the minimum.
- An auction type system where 1 click buy and bid system would be incorporated similar to e-bay

secure transaction loans (free app users will not be able to access this section)
- Create a new revenue stream for breeders that have snakes not involved in projects. As well as allow a cheaper way to work on new projects by smaller breeders. (genetic diversity people we neeeeeeed it)
- Requests for loaned animals
- post animals available for loan. A "rental fee" etc. may be set by loaner (i know rental fee sounds cold as we all love our animals but i couldn't think of another term at the moment)
- Deposits (set by lender and enforced by the site) to make it easier to lend a snake with less worry as well as protecting the buyer as the deposit is never in the hands of the lender it is held by 3rd party.
- the ability to view your loans status via the lendee's tracking (also the ability to charge fees for not appropriately updating the status of snakes that are loaned to you, pics if required etc., to be set by lender, and paid to the lender). The lender would be able to view this at any time.
- I have many ideas on this that are yet to be hashed out.

with the above 2 items there will most likely be some sort of % based payment to the site, as there would be no way to keep it going without a viable income stream. The % will be small such as 5 cents on the dollar or less

A genetic calculator that will allow you to look at what you can make with the animals you have, all animals, or the animals you have + the ones available on the marketplace/Loner market.

This will support tech support, server maintenance, customer service, banking fees, hosting fees, among many many other things people are unaware of on the backend without forcing us to charge subscription fees. All of this is still being hashed out.

I plan on canvasing the community to get input as to what people want what options they want to have etc., but I have many many ideas. And there is much much more I would like to do

All that being said…

the only way I will be able to get something going is by crowd funding however as I would need to cut my overtime down at work significantly and purchase more servers etc. I’m mainly trying to determine if I am wasting my time or not as I do not have much between work and my own breeding projects.
what do you all think do you think I would get enough support in a kick starter?

This is an expanded repost from a thread that was not the creator of.