Hi, I would like to show a mobile app I developed with a friend and hear your opinion for improvements.
A few months a friend of mine hosted a birthday party for his kid and when the time came to blow the candles of the cake, they realized they had forgotten to buy them. The day after he was explaining to me how he tried to find some "mobile app replacement" for such a use case but he could not really find anything that resembled the exciting action of blowing the candles. He and I are software developers, so we decided to try to make a mobile app for it. This could help anyone who either forgot to buy the candles for an event or they are simply not allowed to lit a fire on the premises because of any policy regulations.
As we were creating the concept in our minds we realized that the candles didn't need to look exactly like real ones. They needed to resemble them by having a flame, but the rest could be completely up to us, since we had the power of the digital world. This helped us create the eight candles that are currently available in the catalogue. We even paid a designer to make their animations :)
The Blo! app not only lets you get plenty of digital candles, but friends or family can receive them from you and whenever you want you can press a button to blow all of them at the same time (which displays the animation of how it happens simultaneously).
The first version of the Blo! app was supposed to offer the candles at a very low price. But after several months on Google Play and on Apple Store, the amount of people who actually paid a few cents in exchange for a digital candle experience was zero. We decided it was time to change it for something the users could experience for free, perhaps using ads to pay for the maintenance of the servers.
It's been a while now with this second version and we wonder if people will not ever use it at all. Maybe our design is fundamentally flawed or there is simply no interest to enjoy getting and blowing digital candles in a group at all.
We would love to ask you for your opinion and see if you would change how the app works or you think it could be improved.
You can find the app download links on this website: https://blo.cool/
Thanks a lot!
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts :)
