Advocate: Christopher Wood
Project description: As most of you already know from my pitch Wednesday, the project idea is for a roommate finding application that allows users in the same domain, or similar, to find suitable roommates to live with. The selling point of the application is to make it a safe place to search by possibly requiring social media linking and verification to make sure each match is legitimate and traceable. An API would be built for the software that would allow 3rd party developers to integrate the software to their sites which I imagine would be used on property manager websites and the like. I could also see the use of creating free to use forms and layouts that other sites can directly use with next to no effort. I believe this would work best as a website, and due to the API would be easy to extend to mobile apps. One of the benefits I see with this project is that most students in Blacksburg area potential beta testers so as long as the effort is put in to market it, getting the feedback we need should be fairly easy. Also, if it works as an idea, it’s marketable to virtually any University/School and should scale very well regardless of user base.
Skills: Web Development, User Design Experience, App development & possibly marketing experience
