Project Muckle MVP

As my automated t-shirt project is coming to an end, I find my brain wandering around looking for my next project. I’ve found myself in recent months coming back around to an old idea of mine called Project Muckle. I even discussed the vision of it in this article: https://matthewdavis.uk/project-muckle/

I can’t actually build Project Muckle, the scope is enormous and I’d need money and a large team behind me to pull it off. And that is before you get to the inevitable privacy concerns inherent in this idea.

There is no way on God's green earth that I want to deal with wedding people.

So, what does an achievable MVP for Project Muckle look like? It feels like you would need to think about users of the tool. So perhaps the beginning of this process starts with who needs/wants the ability to capture a digital version of an event allowing people to revisit the event and explore it again.

Immediately my head went to weddings. The normal idea of a wedding is of an event that is attended by a group of people that has several steps in its journey and people want to capture it and look back on it. That is why there is a whole genre/business niche of photography for weddings. There is no way on God’s green earth that I want to deal with wedding people. They are crazy.

But that brings us on to what other events are captured by photographers. What type of event is so great that we hire a professional to capture what is going on in images/video? Sports events, conferences, cultural events all stand out.

Let’s single out the Wigtown Book Festival (cultural event) it lasts about two weeks and exists across the whole of Wigtown and sometimes a bit further. If I’m an event organizer I would want to be able to set up the basics of the event and then invite people. The people attending then have the ability through a mobile app to add text and images about their experience of the book festival within the time frame and geography of the event. This media is sent to a server and curated into an event that can be re-visited at a future time. Finally, there is a website that represents this event that can be visited by anyone and get an enriched experience of the event beyond just images taken by a photographer.

In  nutshell, that is my idea of a Project Muckle MVP.