satisFactory

4th week — back to defining the problem

After taking some steps back last week, our team decided to spend two more weeks on gathering data and defining the actual problem before starting to iterate possible solutions. We decided to go visit Avoin.Systems and, if possible, other software companies as…

Invitation to the Grande Finale

with SatisFactory!

The SCI-project course has almost come to its ending point but the highlight of the entire course is yet to come! Team satisFactory warmly welcomes all activity organizing companies to the Grande Finale at Otaniemi…

Sounds Like a Business

This has truly been a busy week: lots of meetings, hours and hours of product development and, of course, preparing for the Grand Finale. Sounds like a business? It truly does — some companies are even interested in acquiring our application. It’s so rewarding that at the end of a…

Week 9: The prototype is alive

The last week has been full of hype, ideas and decisions. We have managed to narrow down our broad concept into a simple, testable prototype.

The prototype presentation

A Great Problem Requires a Great Solution

Business side of the story

After identifying the problem of the potential end users, the next step in the project was to define which customer segment should we target our product to. We identified individual customers, small…

satisFactory, or There and Back Again

The saying “life is a rollercoaster” could not be more right. Sometimes the things go just in the right direction but there are also times that make things go backwards. This applies for projects as well. Last week was great for satisFactory; the team…

Week 7: Simplicity Battles Functionality

One week ago was a significant milestone for us. As a recap: we had decided on the market segment to focus on, that is large companies and their employees. We had started counting service provider companies, such as movie theaters and event venues, as our…

Week 8: What about the ca$h?

Yet another week in satisFactory has gone by fast. We have moved away from the swiping mechanism that we presented last week, and towards a list representation of events. We believe that after all this serves our app’s purpose better, but we will have to validate this design as…

FIRST POST!

WHO WE ARE?

How to make programmers’ work life happier and thus more productive? This is certainly an important topic in many ICT themed startups as employee happiness has both economic and social impact on the venture. We are satisFactory, seven students from Aalto University…