Thanks for the advice. I would love to see that project if anyone can find a link. As for idea validation, I'm not sure how necessary that is in this case. No

Thanks for the advice. I would love to see that project if anyone can find a link. As for idea validation, I'm not sure how necessary that is in this case. No new technology or space-age innovation here. My idea is ridiculously simple and has been done a thousand times over, in one way or another. There is a huge market, but I think the big players are doing it all wrong. I'm borrowing a piece of advice from 37signals to "underdo the competition". As a consumer, I absolutely hate all of the current options in this app space (too complicated, too ugly, too many useless features, etc) so I've decided to go about building my own app to meet my own needs. I'm operating under the assumption that there must be at least somebody else out there with needs on par with my own needs. Worst cast scenario is that I end up as the only and a hell of a lot more coding experience than I started with (zero). Which would be totally okay with me.