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This is a project for a Carnegie Mellon class called Design of Mobile Services.
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Making spontaneous collaborationeasy, organized, & accessible.
Study BuddiesBy TimeSoup Labs
Open your phones tablets or browsers and enter: http://timesoup.com/studybuddies/app
Problem
•People like simplicity and collaboration. Work is no longer individual. Many students feel awkward asking unknown students in the classroom to collaborate
•Increasing platforms & mobile devices to collaborate online, Most students have a mobile device capable of internet
•People often pay for tutoring when it could be just as beneficial to work with classmates
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•Universities would like to have a uniformed, simple and mobile solution to let students organize. POG
An app that disrupts the current market of internet social media by creating spontaneous collaboration between students who do not know each other but are in the same classes
IdentifiedOpportunity
What isStudy Buddies?
This application is a spontaneous collaboration tool for students who are in the same classes but do not know each other. They can post to their class groups about where they are studying, and other students can join them
Create spontaneous study groups with three simple questions:
WHAT do you want to study?WHERE do you want to study?WHO are you with?
Solution
Value Ecosystem
Team Simple
Omri Amarilio
Christina Brant
Dipika Shrihari
Weiting Yeh
Computer Science
Architecture & Human Computer Interaction
Information Systems & Human Computer Interaction
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Innovative Technology
User’s micro-location (room within a building)
University’s class times and locations
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App suggests classesto join
TestMarkets
Field Perceptions
What year are you in school?
Have you ever been in a class where you didn’t have anyone to study or work with but wish you did?
Would you want an application that put you in groups based on your classes so that you could communicate with your classmates?
Field Perceptions
-Children Education Major, International, 24
-Professional Writing Major, Freshmen, 18
“In two of my classes last semester I sometimes had questions but didn’t have anyone to ask
because I didn’t know other students in the class and I didn’t want to bother the professor with my
‘dumb’ questions. I could use this app to ask these questions to my classmates.”
“I will be motivated to use this app if my classmates are using it. I want to be continuously updates with the academic info about my courses. I would feel like I was missing info if I didn’t have the app.”
MVP Responses Facebook Fan Page
MVP Responses Facebook Fan Page
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MVP Responses Facebook Fan Page
MVP Responses Pre Registration Page
LINK
Competitors
One Campus, One Platform
It's all about your mind
Ask. Answer. Explore. Whenever.
StudyPartners.com
eduora.com
piazza.com
Growth Hypothesis
2013• Potential test markets of CCAC, CMU, UIUC• Personally engage students, classes and professors
2014• Release more locations
2015• Apps such as food ordering and location• Find a buddy for any purpose released
2016• The main release of TimeSoup & TimeSoup Pro,
2017• Spend money by buying a promising company
Finance
Year 1 2 3 4 5
user base: students
2,800 100,000 1,000,000 5,000,000 8,000,000
user base: others
0 10,000 400,000 2,000,000 30,000,000
costs $50,000 $300,000 $1M $4M $10M
revenue from ads
0 $200,000 $2M $16M $70M
milestone release MVP expand to more colleges
allow non-students to
freely join for finding any
kind of buddy
release TimeSoup Pro
Current Status
Demo