Yambda-5B – Industrial-scale music recommendation dataset (huggingface.co)

Hello, I am a current sophomore in uni. When I was a freshman, near the beginning of the school year, many clubs were having their introductory meetings.

As I attended several meetings of the clubs; I noticed a prevalent issue, that clubs often had a poor, strung together system to keep track of attendance, coordinate scheduling, issue onboarding, and others. This gave me the idea to build a tool to meet the demand for some of these clubs.

From talking to some current club leadership at my uni, I have garnered some positive validation for my idea as a business initiative, suggesting it could be viable.

I believe a freemium SaaS would be the ideal business model, allowing an easy entrance for clubs, balancing wit premium features for clubs that have more users, larger files, more complex onboarding procedures, etc.

Is anyone interesting in working with me on this project? I am a Computer Science major currently interning for the Summer, and I have experience with NextJS and Supabase as a frontend based developer. My ideal cofounder is one that is a bit older and more experienced, and sees a similar opportunity to develop this into a profitable business.

My discord is happiers if you would like to get into contact with me there.

Comments (5)

latchkey · 1d ago

There are a ton of sites that do club management. Have you investigated any of them first?

jamesgarrick · 1d ago

I'm aware of tools like slack, jira, atlassian, for professional/enterprise level, but none specifically targeted towards college club or or amateur team management.

latchkey · 1d ago

I suggest you do some research into this before you start building anything. Your idea is not novel and it is a crowded space already.

jamesgarrick · 1d ago

I have, and to my knowledge there is no tool that fits in the niche that I prescribe really. Could you provide some examples?

latchkey · 1d ago

> college club management

That’s what I’d search for on Google.

The first result [0] already has some useful suggestions, and I’m sure there are plenty more out there if you want to dig deeper.

You might feel your idea is more complete, faster, cheaper, or better in some way, and maybe it is. But that’s not really the point. I’ve been around this space before, and what often happens is it turns into a sales effort targeted at people who either won’t be around in a few years (graduate) or aren’t in a position to pay for tools like this (poor college kids).

I know this might sound like old-man advice (it is!), and you may decide to keep building what you believe is the perfect solution. That’s totally your call. But I’ve seen many people (including myself) pour months or years into something like this, only to realize too late that the market really isn’t there.

My suggestion: take a step back and focus on building something people are ready to pay for right now, not what you think they will want. It’ll save you a lot of time and heartache.

I say this not to discourage you, but because I genuinely want to help.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/college/comments/14x9ad9/softwareto...