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App idea: "Help me in a minute" - a help-your-friends app in return for a favor when you're in need

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You have a friend who can't figure out a computer problem and they want your help but you're busy.<br><br>You help a friend move and need another friend to watch your cat.<br><br>You have a friend who is traveling to another city and wants your favorite restaurant recomendations.<br><br><br><br>Introducing "Help me in a minute" - your personal help-your-friends app.<br><br>You can favorite the types of help you can offer and also the types of help you might get in the future. The app does not ask you to pay for anything (no coins, no premium accounts, no ads).<br><br>When a friend is in need and selects you (or a random person who applied to help them out) in the app, it sends _everyone_ a notification and the first one to accept gets the reward point. You can in turn redeem this in future when _you_ are in need and you want your friend to help you out.<br><br>The app keeps track of when you have helped another friend and when you have applied for help. When you have helped in the past, your points _would_ decrease by 1 point. If you haven't used the app in a while, your points would also decrease by 1. That's it. No monetary payment. No work contract. Nothing. Just a gesture of goodwill.<br><br>Reward points can be earned in many ways. If they helped you move when you needed them to, they get one. If they helped you with your taxes, it _might_ be 2-3 point reward, yet to be figured out.<br><br>You can use _any_ help to ask _any_ help. If they helped you carry a _grocery bag_ and you need help with something as big as a _roof repair_ for your house, you can still redeem a point to ask them for help. If they say no, you don't lose a point. If they say yes, you lose one point.<br><br>You can still opt-out of any help you applied for. Just let them know in the app. It still eats into your point. But you can still use another point for your current help.<br><br>When you _ask_ for help, the app sends a notification to all friends you've favorited who can help in the particular help you're looking for. If they're not online at that moment, they're automatically ignored. Once _anyone_ accepts, the app stops sending notifications to others.<br><br>The app will also track how much help you've given and how much help you've gotten. This would be your _help-score_. If you've given more help than you've received, you have a positive score. If you've received more help than you've given, you have a negative score. It doesn't cost anything to give or receive help, at all. It's just a simple point. But when you want to help someone, you can see their help-score _before_ you accept.<br><br>The app does not ask for your phone number. Or your email. It only asks for your google account and only uses the name so you can share your name and a simple 4-digit authentication code with your friend to add them to your list.<br><br>Privacy is important, obviously. We will not share data _in any form_ to anyone. We will not sell this app _in any form_ to anyone without a clear replacement for it. This app will be open source on github.<br><br><br>Share this idea to your friends who are app developers so we can get this app released soon.<br><br>Edit: Hey guys, welcome to this post. Thank you for the upvotes and the awards. I would like to make a slight change to this post. Apparently, there's an app called "help you in a minute" but it seems to be a different concept. There is another app called "timebanking" which is almost what this idea is. So let me change the name of this idea to "time-favors" instead.<br><br>I'm not an app developer, I'm a web developer. I did look at the "timebanking" app and it's almost what I described here but it seems to be in beta still. I have no idea whether it ever will release. If someone can work with me to create this app, I'm happy to help with the UI/UX and backend work for free. Just DM me or comment here.<br><br>Edit 2: Hey guys, thank you for all the love. I've removed all comments from this thread. If you're interested in developing this app, please DM me. I'm also fairly active in this sub, so if you post here, I _will_ see it.

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