For Shawn and Erik
Med Cabinet Pitch
App for new cannabis consumers (especially those trying to get off of pharmaceuticals) who want to use cannabis as a means to battle medical conditions and ailments. Help patients find the right strains, dosing, intake method and intake schedule! Use user data along with strain data to build ML models to guide recommendations. Proposal
What problem does your app solve? Patients unable to find proper cannabis strain, dosage, intake method, and intake schedule. Turning away from pharmaceuticals / finding healthy alternatives and providing customized care for each customer Pitch: App for new cannabis consumers (especially those trying to get off of pharmaceuticals) who want to use cannabis as a means to battle medical conditions and ailments. Help patients find the right strains, dosing, intake method and intake schedule! Use user data along with strain data to build ML models to guide recommendations. Be as specific as possible; how does your app solve the problem? Reduce polypharmacy by using the right strain and dose of cannabis. Overall this can simplify a patient’s treatment while increasing treatment success by reducing side effects due to polypharmacy. What is the mission statement? Help patients find the right strains, dosing, intake method and intake schedule! Features
What features are required for your minimum viable product? Strain recommender Save recommendations
For DS Source and analyze data to better understand the reported effects of different cannabis strains/types Data Sources (need to be confirmed): https://www.kaggle.com/kingburrito666/cannabis-strains Given this, create a model to predict which strains/types a user would enjoy based on their input (desired effects). Can use any techniques you wish. Make the recommendations accessible to the rest of the team via a Flask API or equivalent. For Web User creation and login Form to gather data from the user to submit to the DS API User can save response from the DS API to the Web backend in the user's profile User can view saved responses and filter them in a useful way User can edit/delete saved responses in the user's profile.
What features may you wish to put in a future release? Link user to dispensary that has product that fulfills their needs What do the top 3 similar apps do for their users? Leafly PotBot WeedMaps Massroots – https://www.massroots.com Frameworks - Libraries
What 3rd party frameworks/libraries are you considering using? React Hook Form (form validation instead of Formik) https://react-hook-form.com – React I Redux or Context? – React II Express – Backend Node – Backend API for strains https://rapidapi.com/raygorodskij/api/Strain - Dylan https://otreeba.com/ (needs key) - Michelle https://kushyapp.github.io/kushy-api-docs/public/ - Nisha Kaggle Dataset (both versions) - Bhavani & Ira Do APIs require you to contact its maintainer to gain access?
Are you required to pay to use the API?
Target Audience
Who is your target audience? Be specific. People who are currently taking many pharmaceuticals Medical marijuana patients All types of patients What feedback have you gotten from potential users? Its healthier than prescriptions Have you validated the problem and your solution with your target audience? How?
Research
Research thoroughly before writing a single line of code. Solidify the features of your app conceptually before implementation. Spend the night researching so you can hit the ground running on Wednesday. Prototype Key Feature(s)
This is the “bread and butter” of the app, this is what makes your app yours. Calculate how long it takes to implement these features and triple the time estimated. That way you’ll have plenty of time to finish. It is preferred to drop features and spend more time working on your MVP features if needed.