Validate my AI startup (app)

I'm confident about the tech side that I can make it, but I'm a bit skeptical that anyone would use it and it's providing any value

If only more people thought this way

Hi Harish, the idea sounds good, I would definitely use it if the suggestions are accurate (or moderate) , it should be mix up places/food/events/movies etc etc . For the mvp I would suggest you to manually feed the data don't implement the ai part ( or else it will take time, you will not have much data, results will be not accurate), use some automation to gather data from different sources

I do not believe you even need advanced machine learning or AI to make a useful application. You could probably build something limited that uses KNN trees to classify tasks. I am pretty certain movie recommendations use KNN trees. I think you should design the application to utilize an input system that will work well with KNN trees. Like rating the things they enjoy with a number. Basically use a survey. Then you can use the same survey to classify activities and construct a KNN. Like movies. This probably will not work for the final version but it should allow you to have something useful made within a couple of days depending on your programming abilities. Once it is made you can test it out on your target audience. Most likely will have to limit it to one geographical area to start and market it to people in person. Like if you go to a university for example. Otherwise, you will have a hard time classifying and inputting the data needed for your application. Which will undeniably be the hardest part of developing the application. For KNN trees either you or your users will have to rank each activity in multiple categories, hence why I recommend starting in your local area only. It will be hard to grow the application without first providing incentives to users to rank activities in the area first. If you were yelp or something similar building an application like this would be a lot more obtainable but since you are not Yelp you will have great difficulty IMO. This will not be an easy application to build and market. Solve the data problem first. Now in terms of the value. I think it would be extremely valuable if it actually works. If I am a hiker and your application is able to provide me with a list of activities, trails, and clubs that will actually interest me it would be worth money. But you need to be able to do that.

Honestly, 2-weeks is not much. If you are confident of that estimate, I would say just go for it. You might end up spending similar time to validate it. But I really doubt it can be done in 2-weeks. Have you considered all the non-tech parts? UI, graphics, app submission, etc.

Plus, you probably won't get very valuable feedbacks here since IH doesn't represent your target user group well. I would take anything you get here with a grain of salt.

I'll be honest here, it's a hard problem to tackle.

How would you find the activities. Also, keep in mind that if you deliver a bad first time experience people will not use you again.

Lastly, very few people do spontaneous things. They usually plan ahead of time and do research.