Daily events timeline app idea, what do you think about it ?
Every day I track:
- time when I leave home
- time when I get to the work
- time when I leave work
- time when I get back to home
- quality of my work (1-5)
I do this by sending my wife sms with time (we use it as quick notes :), and later I put all these values into google docs spreadsheet. It's getting a little annoying, so I thought about creating an app when I can setup some kind of event's timeline by:
- creating events
- naming periods between events
- setting target events/periods targets
- tagging events/durations (ie. bus numbers)
- rating periods
My timeline could look like this:
- event{name: "leave home"}
- period{name: "to work commute"}
- event{target: 9am, name: "start work"}
- period{rating, target: 8 hours, name: "work"}
- event{target: 5pm, name: "end work"}
- period {name: "from work commute"}
- event{name: "get back to home"}
Every day when I start an app it would show me button of upcoming event (leave home). I click it, it saves event time and changes upcoming event to next one (start work) and so on. I don't have to spam my wife with sms, don't have to put it to google docs.
With all these data it could calculate my overhours, best times to leave home, best times to leave work to meet event target times, and so on.
Maybe people could use it to create their own daily event timelines for other things.
What do you think about it?
Sounds to me like you'd be making yourself a machine, and pressing that button at the right time each time will become increasingly important to feed the idea that "if I'm perfectly following my schedule, I'm doing well".
The precision of recording events as you describe it is much too detailed for me to be valuable.
I'm not a fan, but ... that means I'm just not your target market. I'd be more of a fan if it would be focused on significant events (and these significant events are then used to improve quality of life rather than time worked) rather than all of them.
Your idea might be worth pursuing further, and here's why:
I really don't like it.
However, this is a good thing.
Good because you got a strong reaction out of me, which doesn't happen for most products.
There's a podcast here (I forget which one) where the guest says that you should evaluate business ideas by the strength of people's reactions, both good and bad. The argument being, if there's someone who strongly dislikes it, there's probably someone who strongly likes it (and maybe enough to pay money for it).
If you really lean into the human robot angle Sébastien mentions, you'll probably get a lot of attention from people who bristle at this idea (like me). In a crowded marketplace this gives you a big advantage.
To sum things up: I care about your idea, and at the end of the day, that's what's important.
Best of luck!