Startup Idea: Flexible Scheduling Application for Biomedical Research

Startup idea to develop a flexible scheduling app designed for biomedical research students. The app needs to understand the intricate details of scientific experiments, their variable timelines, and their priority over various other activities like meetings, conferences, seminars etc. The app should be smart enough to dynamically reschedule tasks based on constraints and user priorities.

I'm a biomedical research student and the hardest part for me is keeping my schedule organized. I like planning ahead but it feels like I'm always moving things back because that's the nature of science.

Our schedule is inherently flexible because we mostly work independently but there is an underlying experimental structure (order in which they can performed) that they must be overlaid on top of (set meetings) and bookended by large events like conferences and other presentations and peppered throughout by seminars we'd like to attend but would skip if your experiments should otherwise happen then.

I would love to have a scheduling app that understands experiments--that they sometimes fail and have to be redone, that sometimes a reagent doesn't come in time and must be pushed back a day--and reschedule them around set meetings without manually having to change everything for the next month in my calendar at least a few times a month. I'd like to be able to set up an experimental plan (Exp 1 > Exp 2 > Exp 3), assign time constraints (Exp 1 is hands on for an hour, hands off for three hours and then hands on for two hours, Exp 2 is hands on for two hours, hands off for one, hands on for one, and hands off overnight before it can be used for Exp 3), and then out pop optimized schedules of must dos (meetings), do-if-times (seminars), and experiments. It would be great to have the ability to set preferred work times (9-6, no weekends) but to allow the schedule to go over if not finishing another experiment would cause more delays and to choose priorities (prefer working late to working weekends). Yeah, I've tried various calendar apps. I've tried things like "flexible scheduling app", "scheduler for scientists", etc.

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