Scran
Fuel your hunger for less
Introduction
Don't spend time worrying about if you can go out; spend time wondering where to go out with Scranl! Scran is an app where Yelp meets Groupon. It uses an interactive, easy to use map with variable price and discount (percent off) settings that make it possible to find food that you love (and normally eat) when its on discount. It will show future discounts if you search specific resturants.
Problem
College students are often caught wondering "I want to go out, but everything's so expensive!" From a first hand perspective, I know how frustrating this can be and how it often leads to not eating out despite wanting something other than the dining hall food. To make matters worse, it only gets even more frustrating when you go out and see that you just missed a monthly promotion or discount that would have made eating out much more appealing. It's almost impossible to know or remember all the discount opportunities that there are so it's often easier to just give up on trying to go out often.
Opportunity
Scran provides the easy solution to this issue with a simple, easy to use layout that requires no paywall for the basic functions of the app (unlike some other small-scale competitiors with similar ideas). There will be a map with easily customizable settings at the bottom that can show all resturants in a certain radius around you with restraints ranging from type of food to price to percent off. Additionally, a function that sets us apart from our competitiors is that there will be the ability to search for an individual resturant, see when they do have promotionals, and then offer to send you a reminder notification when that particular promotion is going on.