[johnmurch]

Interesting Idea and Niche

Some questions come to mind.

1. College Students want to spend money on beer not on tools, even if it saves them time. What about using a free tool like http://mailchimp.com/ (free upto 2,000 members!) Plus you can email/notify and schedule them, so maybe you just want a better process.

2. Signups - with ipads/kindle fire being so cheap it would seam a simple webpage for signup and pass along to next person. You could just set it up out front and force people to put in Name, Email, Major, Graduation Year - simple and easy.

3. Community - With Meetup.com the value is in the tools, but more that it's one place you can go and get all the news/meetings/invites. What if you took over the "campus" (think facebook style) and got them to use your platform for setting up meetings/email students/etc. Now you have 1 platform and would be easier to go to a big company (linkedin?) saying hey we have all these students on the site and about to graduate - want to market to them?

Just some thoughts. Good Luck!

[dannyp32]

1. Yea I agree, but this won't be their personal money that they'll be spending. Typically university clubs receive funding from sponsors which the club uses for its activities.

2. Yes, that works and it's what we currently do, but after they sign up, the officers (at least in my club) use that info for other things, and they have to go through it manually if they're not experienced with macros.

3. That's a great idea. I think the simple member list would be my minimum viable product, and then I could continue to bring in features such as the ones you listed.

Thanks I appreciate the feedback.