Total in hours for the whole project until the 14th January

Time we spent with the whole project:

• 278h20 =  10 credits

14th January - Demola's Final Pitch

We missed the big pitch, since we’d be back to our home country in the 23^rd of December.

Either way, we had improved the plan of the things we wanted to approach and our goals:

·                     A video/ animation

• showing the app
• to the supermarkets (managers)
• to the costumers
• keep the animation that explains the procedures of the application

·                     new approach: supermarkets that exist in train stations and other transportation stations

• (talk to supermarkets like these in Portugal)

·                     rethink our persona

• someone that is getting ready for a party and needs to buy and arrange stuff with some urgency
• someone that is going on vacations to a cottage and needs to get the products from the supermarket in an easier way
• someone that is in the transportation (coming from work, from a trip, etc.) and while doing nothing in the journey, picks the things from the app and then gets them, in an easy way, from the nearest supermarket to the station.

About what should be said in the pitch:

Aleksi was supposed to talk personally with M-Market. He did a few more research on other supermarkets and got to the conclusion that Kesko (the K-Market group) and S-Ryhmä already have their web shops available.

https://fi.foodie.fm/#!/products : that's the one from S-Ryhmä – only works in Helsinki at the moment; with this you can pick up the bags or get a home delivery.

Kesko (K-Kauppa and so on) has this: https://ruoka.citymarket.fi/pk-seutu/info/FrontPageView.action . They are interested to offer online grocery shopping and might be interested to have a third party app to offer their services.

In the pitch, the thing that should be emphasized was the fact that our service would be different from the one that those companies offer. Our "motto" concerns more about «urgency shopping», like:

1.       When you need to buy something that you'll use very soon (for example, if you have a party tonight!) - and that's why our service doesn't involve taking the shopping bags at home because then they'd have to wait a few days to receive things;

2.       And that this service would be (mostly) in supermarkets near transportation stations, so that people that come from work/travelling/etc. and still need to go to the supermarket can pick up the products in a faster and easier way, without wasting their time in long queues.

(TIME:  30)

In the end, we didn't win the pitch and the prize (2000€).

Time we spend uploading the Blog until today (11th December) / Total in hours for the whole project

Time we spent with the posts in the blog:

• 11th December - 3h 

Time we spent with the whole project until now / count the working hours:

• 248h20 = (approximately)  9 credits

Planning Demola's Final Pitch

We already spent a few time thinking about what to do in the final presentation, since we won't be in Tampere but in Portugal by the 14th January.
These are the topics we want to approach in the pitch, that will be a video:

• showing the app
• to the supermarkets (managers)
• to the costumers

• new approach: supermarkets that exist in train stations and other transportation stations
• (talk to supermarkets like these in Portugal)

• keep the animation that explains the procedures of the application

• rethink our persona

(TIME: 30min)

NEW BUSINESS FIT AND SURVEY ONLINE

Our team colleague Mimi created a survey for our application, to see if our application could fit the costumers interests regarding shopping.
The survey can be found here

And here is the Business Fit that she also did.

3rd December - Meeting Carita

We met Carita, our tutor, to talk about our plans and what we have been doing and planning throughout these last weeks. We also talked about the Mid-Pitching and how it was held.
We showed our video animation and did a quick presentation using the PDF presentation and saying the speech we prepared for the Mid-Pitching.

Carita told us what to change about the Persona - that should be someone that wants to give a party and needs some products really quickly, and not a housewife that has to take care of so many things.
Carita also told us that we have to do a learning diary with what we have been doing during the semester and our goals in the beginning and our goals now.

(TIME: 20min)

28th November - Demola Meeting

The roundup group is getting smaller and smaller. There's only three teams left that participate in the meetings: ours, Weggle's team and Parktical's.
This way, the meeting wasn't very long and we only talked about a few questions regarding our ideas and plans.

(TIME: 1h)