Twenty starting points for your Product Studio

Choose something you would enjoy using. These fictional-data ideas are not ready-made specifications. Pitch your choice using the proposal and scope rules, or propose your own for instructor approval.

Every idea supports related records, state changes, a useful summary and import/export. Keep three core features. Stretch work waits until the main journey works well. None requires a paid model inside the product, real payments or real personal information.

#	Idea and audience	Three core features	Interesting QA challenge	Optional stretch
01	Clubhouse — fictional club organizer	Events/capacity; volunteer shifts; coverage dashboard	Overlaps, full events, cancellations	Event-day printout
02	Pantry Pilot — household meal planner	Inventory; recipe/meal planner; shopping list	Units, duplicates, zero quantities	Batch scaling; no health advice
03	Quest Board — personal goal planner	Goals/tasks; states/dates; weekly overview	Reopening, overdue dates, misleading percentages	Calendar export
04	Shelf Life — hobby collector lending items	Collection/search; loans/returns; overdue dashboard	Double loans, lost items, invalid dates	Printable labels
05	Bracket Bench — casual tournament organizer	Entrants; rounds/results; standings	Ties, odd entrant counts, corrected results	Another tournament format
06	Garden Grid — home gardener	Beds/plantings; care tasks; seasonal notes	Date boundaries, duplicates, archived beds	Keyboard-friendly layout editor
07	Maker Queue — hobby workshop	Projects/parts; work stages; shortage summary	Insufficient parts, canceled builds, duplicate imports	Printable build cards
08	Trip Sketch — fictional weekend planner	Itinerary; time/budget estimates; packing list	Overlaps, currencies and units	Offline print view; no bookings
09	Pet Daybook — fictional household	Pet profiles; care assignments; completion history	Missed/duplicate tasks, schedule changes	Weekly plan; no diagnosis/dosing
10	Setlist Studio — music group	Songs; ordered setlists/duration; rehearsal notes	Duplicate songs, missing lengths, reordering	Multiple set variants
11	Scene Planner — short-video creator	Scenes/shots; equipment assignments; shoot schedule	Equipment conflicts, reordered shots	Original-art storyboard
12	Swap Shelf — fictional community exchange	Listings; reservation/collection states; availability filters	Double reservations, canceled pickups	Collection slips; no live messages
13	Volunteer Vista — fictional event coordinator	Activities/staffing needs; assignments; coverage gaps	Double assignments, remaining capacity	Printable schedules
14	Study Sprint — personal practice planner	Topics/resources; session planner; progress summary	Missed sessions, partial completion, dates	Reflection timeline; no student records
15	Repair Desk — fictional repair café	Intake; work states; parts/status board	Invalid transitions, reopened work	Claim ticket; no contact details
16	Trail Notes — outdoor hobbyist	Route notes; outing plans; gear checklist	Distance units, archived routes, incomplete preparation	Packing templates; not navigation/safety advice
17	Tiny Gallery — exhibition artist	Original artwork catalog; display assignments; exhibit checklist	Duplicate placement, missing dimensions	Curated gallery view
18	Game Night Desk — tabletop group	Games/player counts; fictional preferences; session plan	No compatible choices, conflicting player limits	Explainable rule-based suggestions
19	Budget Booth — fictional craft seller	Products/stock; mock sales/returns; daily summary	Negative stock, rounding, duplicate imports	Stock planning; no payments/financial advice
20	Community Calendar — fictional neighborhood organizer	Events; resource reservations; filtered calendar	Booking conflicts, cancellations, month boundaries	Calendar export; no live email

Make it yours without making it enormous

Choose a distinctive name, audience and visual direction. Specify one useful scenario, one situation to prevent and one failure to recover from. Replace “add AI” with a concrete benefit; a tested rules-based feature may be cheaper and more useful than a live model call.

For example, Shelf Life has items, loans and fictional borrower aliases. An item moves available → on loan → returned. Find an item, lend it, check the due list and return it. A duplicate loan must fail without corrupting records. CSV backup/restore provides an integration. Real email, identity accounts, payments and a mobile app are out of scope.