Danish Noorani’s Updates

Week 8 Journal

This week, I learned most through doing the assignment. Part of the reason being that market and build feasibility are inutuitve concepts. When your building a project, you natural think about the cost of building it and whether people you are targeting will buy it. Thus, the lecture had less of an enlightning lesson on the concepts.

Once you actual try to write a market and build feasibility plan, you realize how that the concept is not so simple. Usually when someone wants to build to something, he thinks of the feasibility on a superficially high level. Part of the reason is the person's personal attachment to the idea that he or she had. For example, my final project deals with a machine learning app that diagnosis patients based on there symptoms. On intial thought, I beleived the idea was bullet proof. However, once I had to write a plan, I had to get into details and answers questions such as will "Do people proverty nations of West Africa even had cell phones to run the application?" or "Will People trust such an app when their only experiences have been to trust a doctor?".

Ultimately what I will take away from this week, is the importance of thinking deeply about your market. Often times the inventor is trapped in the bubble of his mind. It is important to think about the product from the end user's prespective and see if the proposed product would actual be feasible and useful for the ultimate users.