Bound

What is Bound?

Problem Statement

What problem is Bound solving?

Solution

How will Bound solve the problem?

Bound is a social, gamified, book club app that promotes reading by allowing users to compete to see who can gain the most XP (experience points). The aim is to get more people excited about reading and achieving their reading goals.​

Our quantitative and qualitative research showed that 75% of the people that responded to our survey, have reported to have never participated in a book club. The other 25% of people reported that when they have participated in a book club, 38.1% of them met monthly. We also found that 60% of of the responders have rarely, if ever discussed books with others.

Users are generally interested in reading, saying that if their roadblocks were mitigated, that they would use a book club app. Those roadblocks include: lack of time, lack of accountability, poor organization, difficulty finding clubs, and uninteresting book selections.

Bound aims to make all of those roadblocks disappear, by providing: quick and easy reading tracking, the ability to receive daily reminders, a simple UI that makes book club creation and management seamless, a social network that connects you to friends so you can start book clubs, an AI that recommends you the perfect book, and most importantly, a ranked XP system that gamifies the whole experience.