That's simply what 20-year-old Janessa Padin, a fourth year nursing student, had in mind when she came up with the winning plan for a mobile app that will eliminate the necessity to queue.
The app won major prize within the recently concluded Startup Weekend Cebu, a happening that gathered folks of all backgrounds to return up with a mobile or internet application that might be the premise of a reputable business over the course of a weekend. The event happened in might.
Waiting in line at 3 a.m.
Padin's winning app eliminates the matter of waiting in queues or lines in pharmacies, banks, doctors' clinics, among others, by notifying the user regarding his variety within the queue and therefore the variety that is currently being served.
She said she came up with the thought once her expertise queuing up at the Department of Foreign Affairs.
"I bear in mind having to attend at DFA at three a.m.! it absolutely was ridiculous. Then i assumed it'd be very nice if I may have gotten a priority variety then perhaps went home or waited at a close-by occasional look rather than sitting there at the sidewalk, " she said.
With a team of ten that included four developers, a designer and "non-techs" like Padin, she any developed the thought and included a business model and technical requisites for the app.
'Great folks with awesome ideas'
So how did a nursing student who doesn't apprehend programming find yourself during a Startup Weekend event?
"Well, it all started when my brother, Albert, was planning to a Startup Weekend Workshop at CIT (Cebu Institute of Technology)," she stated that she had nothing else to do. Then once I got there, I got extremely interested. Nice folks with awesome ideas."
Weeks once the workshop, she came up with the thought that eventually won for her team initial prize within the first Startup Weekend in Cebu.
Now, she and her team conceive to push the thought to completion by establishing their startup and taking to heart the teachings she learned throughout the competition.
"I learned to raise queries once I did not perceive, that happened typically. I additionally learned to be extremely versatile with my roles and to relate with folks had and older than me."
In the meantime, it's back to nursing faculty for Padin although she keeps her tech dreams alive.
"Hopefully, it works out," she said. "I really need to try and do each. medication and entrepreneurship."
