The Great Augie Marketplace

With the world watching Team Bandicooot on the edge of their seats, it's been tough to dig through our idea notebooks, searching for that one software concept to rule them all. At long last, however, we believe we have found the application that will take the Augustana community by storm, and vastly improve the student experience at our wee liberal arts college.

Introducing....

The next... BIG... THING!
(Cue confetti cannons and fireworks, release box of doves, fire off a 21 gun salute to Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now")

I asked for all of that to be in the budget, but Avash shut me down.

THE AUGIE MARKETPLACE!

An intuitive, easy to use marketplace app, making the buying/selling of goods at Augustana College stress free.
Team Bandicoot sat down and wrapped about what bothers us about going to school at Augustana. By and large, the most passionate response was the distaste for the augie book buyback process. Four bucks for a three-hundred dollar book? I'm only a math minor, but that doesn't seem to add up in any sort of reasonable manner. At least not for the guy who is suddenly out 296 clams.

So! Team Bandicoot decided to make an app where the buying and selling process of college goods can be streamlined and connect buyers to sellers.

You need a textbook and are looking for good alternatives to that three hundred dollar price tag? Look on augie marketplace.

Perhaps you have a mini fridge you don't want to lug out with you into the real world after senior years, but its got too much sentimental value to toss in a ditch. Find yourself someone who needs a mini fridge on Augie Marketplace.

Since Augie is such a small school, the connections will be people you know, meeting in places you know. So no more dealing with that messy postage and shipping, or guiltily hefting your TLA couch into a dumpster. Post it on Augie Marketplace! Get more bang for your buck, without the added stress, and continue to support the Augustana community by recirculating your stuff among the student population.

We at Team Bandicoot hope you, the reader, are as ludicrously psyched about this project as we are. Keep checking back for status updates on the apps development, and feel free to comment any features you would love to see implemented!

Now.... TO THE CODE!!!! (Keenan charges into the sunset on one of those Wells Fargo carriage horses)

...Once again, apparently not in the budget...

--Keenan

Comments

A Picture Says a Thousand Lines of Code

The blogpost names do not improve from here on out, folks. But the Augie Marketplace sure does! To be fair it isn't too difficult of a leap from non-existent to existent when it comes to an Andorid app. But we are proud of how far our little project has come along. We are pleased to say the little code seedling we planted has grown into a beautiful android flower. We in Team Bandicoot realize one of the most subtle and overlooked aspects of any app is its aesthetic presentation. When we started this project, rule number one was simplicity and elegance, to provide the user with a comfortable shopping environment. This app is certainly utilitarian, and we want to honor that, though not at the expense of its image. So, here's a first look at our mockup, created in microsoft word, and what we have so far created in Android studio. This level of simplicity was what we shot for. Pretty, no? Simple, and the user experience would be one of familiarity. The app is so easy to g...

Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego( 's Stuff she posted on Augie Marketplace to Efficiently Find and Lock Down a Buyer)?

Oh, I'm sorry, is that title too LONG for you? BOO HOO. Did it WASTE so much of your PRECIOUS TIME with its OBNOXIOUS pop culture reference and OVERLY EXTENDED parenthetical? Am I WAY OVERPLAYING this SARCASTIC line of questioning? Well that's nothing compared to the amount of time you, as a highly valued user of AUGIE MARKETPLACE, would waste trying to find an item in a poorly structured, impenetrable android app made by a bunch of shmucks! You'd waste a whole lot of time! We got you covered. We may be shmucks, but we respect your time. The app currently allows a user to search for items by Category, Seller, Date Uploaded, and Title. If you can't find an item in this search system, there's a chance it just doesn't exist. I swear, I searched Waldo on this thing and it came up with circled pictures of him on every page of every book. I'll never have to look for that striped trickster again. No really. ...Ok not really, I found thos...

Farewell

Real life photo of Team Bandicoot riding off into the sunset Whelp, we made it folks. The final release of Augie Marketplace was a big hit. The audience roared, cheered, and showered us with laud and gifts of gratitude. The app was smooth as margarine in a turkish bath, and the idea was immensely intriguing to the augie students present. We had 'em all hook, line and sinker since the first minute of the presentation. That all beings said, we simply cannot deny the fact that this whole fiasco is done and over with. For the four of us, anyway. Team Bandicoot is immensely proud of the work we have done on this project. We had our high points and our low points, but in the end, we developed a high quality application with legitimate potential for improving the Augustana experience. We each individually learned so much about ourselves and our abilities during this process. Now, with graduation imminent, it is time for all of us to move on to bigger and better...

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