App Challenge: Internet Bookmarks

Exciting new app challenge: build a Power Apps application that would manage someone's internet bookmarks! Please review the video below!

Challenge ends at the end of January 2024!

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0:02 How are you guys doing today? I want to share with you guys an app challenge. This is the first time I've done this.

0:12 Challenge to do, to write an app. And what I'd like for everybody to do is take this idea. I'm gonna, I'm gonna give you very vague requirements, okay?

0:21 I'm not giving you written requirements. I'm gonna give you verbal requirements. So, I'd love for each of you to participate, uhh, in this, okay?

0:30 So, uhh, this is what I'm gonna call an app challenge for an app idea I have. It's actually an app that I need.

0:39 And I don't have time to write it, okay? Internet bookmarks and favorites. You guys see this bar at the top of my browser?

0:47 This is what I use from my, my shortcut. It's my bookmarks and everything. And this is just one browser profile, by the way.

0:56 In my main Chrome browser, I have so many internet bookmarks going across the top. They go all the way across and I, I typically hide, umm, the, the text.

1:11 And, and what's sorta cool about, umm Edge, is that I could say, they show icon only. Umm, but typically, I just got all these icons going across and then they go all the way down and I have to scroll.

1:26 What I want is a Power Apps application, okay? I'm gonna set as my homepage and I wanna have all my internet bookmarks just to be fully right there on that screen.

1:37 And instead of like, oh, where's that link, where's that link, you know, they're all gonna be displayed here in the middle of the screen for me in a Power apps application.

1:45 Okay. So, I'm gonna put this video out on school for you guys to see. And I would love for you guys to ask questions, umm, you know, maybe you guys have some questions on requirements or something, but that's, that's pretty much it.

1:59 Okay. I just wanna have a Power Apps application and, umm, I'd have to say Dataverse would probably be the best data source because it's the easiest the past.

2:11 Package up and put it in a different environment. So let's say you create a, umm, the Power Apps application, you can do it in Dataverse, you could create a solution package, and you can send it to me, I could install it in my environment or any environment, and it's got all the database tables there

2:32 , as opposed to like SharePoint or SQL Server, and there's gonna be a lot more work. You know, so, I'm gonna have a preference towards Dataverse, okay, but, uhh, if you don't have a premium license and you need to do it in SharePoint, that's fine too, okay, but I'd love to see what we all come up with

2:48 , okay, and, uhh, you guys, if you have access to my, my jumpstart kit, please use the jumpstart kit, umm, I, I, I sorta wanna, uhh, take whoever does it, does the best job, I sorta wanna take it and showcase it, and, uhh, you know, what I'm thinking is I could, I could promote you on my YouTube channel

3:09 , okay, so I have thousands of views on my YouTube channel, and, and let's say, you wanna become a Power Apps freelancer and you wanna sorta showcase what you can do, do a good job on this, you know, and, uhh, you know, this would be like a little challenge, maybe, maybe I'll show the, the top 5, okay

3:25 , so I don't know how many people are gonna, umm, participate in this challenge, but I'm hoping that a lot of people do, and I might let it go for a month, and then at the end of the month, umm, maybe we'll have a little voting with everybody, and, and I'll showcase all of them, and maybe we could vote

3:43 on it, and then I could put my two cents on which one I wanna use, and, umm, I think this might be a, a beautiful thing.

3:51 Something that's sort of exciting, a challenge, right? So let me know what your thoughts are. I'm gonna post this in school, and, umm, I'd love to hear what you guys think.

4:00 Please comment below. I'd love to hear your thoughts. So let's think about this for a second. Okay, so I've got a URL.

4:10 Let's say I wanna bookmark google.com, okay? This is what I want. I want an image or the fav icon. And then I want, like, a little bit of text beside it, you know?

4:22 And I'd like for it to take up the full screen. Let's make it responsive. That would be cool, right? Alright, there's all kinds of cool ideas that we can throw in here, but I'm trying to think.

4:34 There is a Chrome extension that I used to use. I never really liked it, but it was the closest thing to taking all my bookmarks.

4:41 I think it was called Visual Bookmarks, but it was all sort of clunky and the icons were really big and stuff.

4:50 But, uhm, a lot of times when I need to go somewhere on the internet, I'm looking for, you know, something and I'm always going across here.

5:00 I'm just looking to be more efficient with my time and I have to do this, like, hundreds of times a day.

5:06 I need to go to this website. I need to go do this. And sometimes I just end up Googling what I'm looking for all the time, you know, because my main browser has got so many bookmarks there.

5:19 So love to hear your thoughts below. Let's have a good discussion about this. We might, might have a live stream on this.

5:24 Who knows? This could be something really cool. And this is something anybody could use. So it's going to be an exciting project to work on.

5:32 Okay? And to talk about, collaborate on. Thanks a lot, guys. Guys. Please comment below and we'll talk later soon about this.

5:43 Bye-bye.

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