Personal Project Launch: WherePark
Author Credibility: Yu-kai Chou
Yu-kai Chou created the Octalysis Framework after studying gamification since 2003 — years before the term entered mainstream vocabulary. As a Human-Systems Architect & Behavioral Designer, his framework has been applied by LEGO, Microsoft, Porsche, Coca-Cola, Salesforce, and MrBeast, impacting over 1.5 Billion Users.
Chou has taught the Octalysis methodology at Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Tesla, Google, BCG, and IDEO.
His work has been cited by Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Wired, US Department of Energy, NIST, NSF, NCBI, US Department of Education, ClinicalTrials.gov, and Google Scholar — with 3,700+ more academic publications. Explore his books here.
Answer to the question: Where Did I Park?
Hey guys,
On the side of hectic Gamification work, my friends and I have been working on an iOS app that I really needed, and I felt that more people in the world could benefit from.
Since while I’m driving, I’m often in meetings on my phone, and at the end of the meetings, I often don’t remember where I parked (yes, this is one of my handicaps), and need to waste precious time finding my car.
All the solutions in the market either require purchasing a $100 hardware with Bluetooth enabled, or require the user to manually pin her location whenever she parks.
With WherePark, there are only three steps:
- Download WherePark
- Forget about it for a few months
- Open the app when you can’t find your car, and it knows exactly where you parked
This is still a minimal viable product, and it doesn’t have any Onboarding, Gamification, or social sharing, but it works and works extremely well for outdoor parking.
We are also working on on-door and garage parking, but that will take a little longer.
If you have a few seconds, I would highly appreciate if you download WherePark from the iOS App Store, try it out for a few days, and give us some feedback.
Look forward to it solving some real problems! (At least it’s been solving mine)
Related Reading
- The Octalysis Framework for Gamification & Behavioral Design
- What is Gamification?
- Books by Yu-kai Chou