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This page aims to conduct a quick “environmental scan” and find other platforms that are in a similar realm as P4A. The main objective of this quick investigation is to find out what has been done to date, where these services fall short, how they do or don’t address edge use cases and diverse needs.
Platforms:
Open IDEO:
Open IDEO is a design and innovation firm that uses a human-centered, collaborative approach to solving complex issues – a methodology they call design thinking. Modeled on this approach, OpenIDEO enables people everywhere to collaborate in developing innovative solutions to pressing social and environmental challenges.
Backend Process (Between IDEO and Business Partners):
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- Participants sign up for challenges
- Preliminarily information/research provided by IDEO
- Share ideas and collaborate with other members
- Voting for ideas
- Finalize an idea
- See the final idea in production
- Get feedback from users and see the product's impact
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Go Fund Me:
Indigogo:
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Go Fund Me:
It's a crowd-funding platform for creating fundraising campaigns and sharing it in social networks to fund a personal project.
Backend Process:
- Help users manage their transactions
- Help users introduce their campaign on different platforms
- Help users manage and track their campaign
Frontend Process:
- People create challenges and projects and share with friends and family
- Backers start funding a project
- Progress is shown
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Quirky:
Quirky is an invention company. The company allows inventors to submit their ideas, while also assisting them in the development process.
Backend Process:
- Evaluate submitted Ideas
- Vote to select an idea
- Provide funding for production
- Provide backend design and engineering expertise
- Production
Frontend Process:
- Showcasing the final product on the website
- Help users price their products
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Kickstarter: