A few years ago, in 2000 to be precise, I met an Electric Engineer TA who had hooked up with a Personal Development Coach, they hired a computer programmer and tried to develop a handy little coach to help people overcome obstacles, challenges and the like. The “proof of concept” was always to help people quit smoking. As a bunch of social part time smokers in denial, the analogy was easy.
They asked me to sit on their board and advise them on strategy, product development and marketing. Given that the coach had a liking for “all” things Asian, he was intent on focusing to develop the application strictly for a mobile/wireless device.
My recommendation was to instead develop something for the Web, and eventually branch off to wireless.
Today I see this piece of news on a virtual coach to help people quit smoking, check it out, of note, the application is Web-based.