Final Post

My idea is to have an online site where people can place orders for a grocery delivery service.  Once a user joined the website, they would have a page they would log into every time they came back to place another order.  The page would have a record of past orders as well as suggestions based on the products they selected, and recipes to go along with the foods they ordered.  The main focus of the idea however was to promote the delivery service.

Many students on college campuses do not have cars to easily go to the grocery store.  And even if they do live close enough to one to walk, they would have to carry all of their purchases back to their apartment or dorm.  By making this idea based around a convenience factor, I believe many students would be drawn in.

As far as how this idea has progressed over the semester, the most changes have occurred with the actual website.  Before this class, I did not know much about many of the topics we have discussed that have helped to evolve my idea like cloud computing, operating systems, and the importance of system security.

Cloud computing would enable users to gain access to their profiles no matter which computer they were logging into or even where they were.  All of their information would be saved in the cloud and ready for use at any time.  Operating systems was something I did not think much about in terms of this idea before, and now realize how important they are.  I would need to make sure that the website I created would be compatible with any operating system.  I could also create a mobile app for this idea by use of working with the operating systems on mobile devices.  And finally with system security, I would need to make sure the users of the website new that the information they were entering would not be shared so as not to cause identity theft.

To make this idea a reality, I would need to do a few things.  First, I would need to take into consideration the competitors in the market, One Click Grocery and the many other restaurant deliveries in the area.  These other companies are all competing in the same market and would make starting up my idea that much more difficult.  I would also need to work closely with someone to work on the actual website.  I have no knowledge of how to create a working website, especially with all of the difficulties that this one would include such as user information and all of the lists of the products being offered.  And finally, I would really need to sit down and figure out the logistics of making this idea come to life.  I would have to figure out how to take the users orders from a website, actually going to the store to pick up the items and then finally delivering them.  There are many different ways that I could go about doing these things and I would need to figure out the best option.