Three Business Ideas

As an individual that likes to exercise, play games, and a CSS major, I often think about how I can incorporate technology into my work outs or games and find new ways to make it a more enjoyable experience. My three ideas would be a new tech gym, money 8's service, and tournaments 2 go

The tech gym solves the problem of not having a way for members to easily track their progress. When you work out at a gym you can either track or don't track your progress, but for many people they like to track their progress, like wise for the gym so they can show members that they're making good on their promise to get the person in shape. The problem is that you could write on paper for your maxes and so forth but you won't be able to organize, graph, or share that information easily. You could also use an app, but you still have to open and close the app constantly when going from equipment to equipment, which drains the phone battery and becomes annoying. The last option is to hire a personal trainer to help you keep track of your progress and store your information for later. However, this requires the gym to pay personal trainers and takes a lot of time to fill out. My gym would be different in that it would solve these issues by using NFC and smart phones. Each lifting machine would have a NFC connector on it where the member would tap it with their smart phone and download the gym app. And basically all the equipment in the gm would track their progress from time spent in the gym, reps, sets, maxes, gains, and all other types of data. The app could display their progress and would make tracking members progress as easy as typing in their name into a computer and looking at their results. Solving the issue of recording data during the gym and wasting personal trainers time.

Money 8's service is a way for competitive gamers to compete against each other for money with relative ease. Money 8's is when you play a team game usually 4 vs 4 (although not all games are 4 vs 4 but it doesn't matter the team size) and you bet a certain amount of money with an opponent on the other team and if you win you get their money for the game or series. The biggest issue with this is that sometimes people don't pay up, and cause a dispute, my service would solve this problem. It would be a website that users sign up with and connect their gamer tags too and join lobbies of other players trying to find matches. Win the match is over all players report which team won, if their was a dispute a admin would come in and correct the issue. If nothing can be solved then a fine or something happens to them, a negative action that would make them not want to do it again. This would make running money 8's much easier and more official.

Tournaments 2 Go is a service company where we create broadcasted LAN tournaments for up coming games and leagues so they can have high quality streams for viewers. Some competitive games that are new or older games that people don't play all that much have a hard time streaming tournaments because they don't have the capital or viewership necessary to stream. They would call us and we would get all the cameras, audio, computers, and lights set up. Also running the bracket and organization would be key to success.