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Use Case Restaurant List

jducoeur edited this page Oct 22, 2012 · 3 revisions

Use Case: Restaurant List, with Social Recommendations

This is a suggestion from Kate, closely related to Charley's Wine List one. It is a Space that keeps track of restaurants and how much I like them, and more importantly of restaurants I want to try.

The heart of Kate's point is that this could be a social engine. I can optionally allow my friends to recommend restaurants to me; those get put on to my "To Try" list, including the person who recommended it and optional comments.

Analysis

The fields are different, but the broad structure and comments are the same as the Wine List, and they should share a common Social Likes Engine App. Doing both of them at once would help us derive a really powerful common App, that can be applied to a zillion different things.

The recommendation side is really interesting from a technical POV. My original thinking was that this would allow a friend to create an object in my Space from theirs, but I think that's the wrong way to view it. Instead, this should be the heart of a new "Give" feature. A friend with an instance of App A can give me an object from it. I receive this as a notification with a pointer to the object, and an optional comment from the friend. If I don't have App A yet, I get offered to install it; if I do, I can accept or reject the offered Thing.

Features

  • Feature - Giving: That is, a Friend can offer me a Restaurant and a comment about why I might like it.

  • Feature - Notifications: Closely related to Giving, but I need to be able to receive the notification and decide whether to accept it.

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