Bug List Activity 1) Write down 5 things that bother (\"bug\") you. These \"bugs

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Bug List Activity

1) Write down 5 things that bother ("bug") you. These "bugs" should be related to your interests or major passions in life.

2) Brainstorm innovative products/services that you could create to address the "bug."  

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Market: Who is the target customer/user?

Pain Point: What is the pain point ("bug") they experience

Solution: Describe your service/product that addresess the pain

Example:

Market: Coffee drinking consumers

Pain Point: Customers were frustrated with burning their hands on scolding hot paper coffee cups

Solution: Coffee cup sleeve created with corrugated cardbord that slides over the coffee cup to prevent burned hands.

Explanation / Answer

1.     Market: People living in mosquito infested areas
Pain Point: People are annoyed with mosquito bites and the itching and swelling that follows.
Solution: Make a natural mosquito repellant :1 ounce of oil of citronella (from health food store),,1 drops of corn oilPlace the ingredients in a small bowl and mix well. Rub the mixture on your skin before going into mosquito-land.

2. Market: Generally, anyone using email.
Pain point: Inbox flooding with junk mail and it’s electronic sister spam and important mails getting lost in the mayhem.
Solution : Use Unroll.Me

Unroll.Me is a free—and super handy—online service that allows you to unsubscribe from unwanted emails. Once you sign up for an account, Unroll.Me will show you all of your subscription emails, and you can stop the ones you don't want to receive.

3. Market: College students living in dorms.

Pain point: Roommate chatting on Skype until 4 in the morning.

4. Market: Mostly people using smartphones

Pain point: Addiction to technology especially the social media

Solution: Set some time aside for the world and it should help tech addiction fade away. One should definitely unplug before bed as keeping technology in the bedroom tends to mean you'll use it and glowing screens in the dark will not help you sleep better.

5. Market: Everyone who uses a washer
Pain point: Missing socks
Solution : Lock your socks together and make them prisoners in the washer, dryer for the duration of their sentence.

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