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UC Berkeley, CS 194 SaaS (Fall 2008), 

Tips from Fall 2008

 

Credit for independent study next semester: CS199: Spring 2009

 

Finalized Semester Projects and Groups

 

NOTE: Many apps have a guest account (username = password = "guest") so if you're just browsing you can try that before self-signing-up for an account.

 

  1. myCal - schedule generation/collaboration (includes Berkeley class scheduling)
  2. WriteAStory - Collobarative story writing
  3. smart investor - a site for money talking
  4. eMotion  - Find where your friends are
  5. postings - A social local news service
  6. HostComic - An online webcomic hosting site.
  7. The Cal Project - A Forum for Berkeley students and faculty to discuss anything they desire.

  8. hearsay! - Collaborative photo sharing and gossiping of the local community.

  9. MedicalMooz- Online medical record storage/management [Note: this app doesn't let you create a guest account]

  10. MissingPets - Place missing/found pet notices online

  11. Courses ☃ - Full service course software that sucks marginally less hard

  12. Flash-It- It's Flippin' Fun - Create/Share/Play educational and non-educational games

 

Brainstormed Ideas

 

  1. wherePee - find a place to pee
  2. rehabR - social network for rehabers
  3. EmailFS - distributed email file storage
  4. SeeMail - smarter email w/ social networking and metadata, like Xobni
  5. ClassMass - Class collaboration tool (w/ mobilization)
  6. myCal - schedule generation/collaboration (includes Berkeley class scheduling)
  7. CanYouVote - letting people who think they're registered to vote know if they really are or not
  8. Analytiks - better web analytics, more graphs, abandonment rates, Google Analytics killer
  9. ezMath - helps kids solve algebraic problems online
  10. YARF - Yet another Rails Forum!
  11. WriteAStory - Collobarative story writing
  12. Musika - online collaborative music composer
  13. OmniBroadcast - universal Internet radio
  14. SpeakEasily - natural-language control on any website and any browser
  15. Name 1.9- "Web 2.0" name generator
  16. Cascader- automatic CSS generator
  17. 'HoodLook - educational district lookup
  18. DesignerHub- portal to search for developers/designers' blogs
  19. ResuMe- resume creator/parser/converter/styler
  20. ArtPort- portal to search for art and share art
  21. WordleMail - word cloud your email
  22. Tag-A-Hood - categorize your neighborhood
  23. FeedMe - get recipes tailored to what's actually in your kitchen
  24. smart investor - a site for money talking
  25. shaRecipe - share recipes and such
  26. GetYourStyle - upload your picture and try out different haircuts and hair colors
  27. Let's Review - anything can be reviewed]
  28. Berkeley Scheduler - Berkeley Scheduler that combines features of ESC and Aman
  29. eMotion  - Find where your friends are
  30. Crohnology - A medical information management system for patients with Crohn's Disease
  31. HostComic - An online webcomic hosting site.
  32. The Cal Project - A Forum for Berkeley students and faculty to discuss anything they desire.

  33. hearsay! - Collaborative photo sharing and gossiping of the local community.

  34. MedicalMooz- Online medical record storage/management

  35. MissingPets - Place missing/found pet notices online

 

Please make pages for separate projects, link to them from here, elaborate, and add your own ideas! 

 

Comments (4)

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wsobel@... said

at 4:58 pm on Oct 8, 2008

Please add the names of your group members after your project name.

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sudeep juvekar said

at 5:42 pm on Oct 8, 2008

Hey all,

Here's the ideas page from YCombinator that I mentioned in the class yesterday: http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html

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Sami Eljabali said

at 5:49 pm on Oct 8, 2008

Here's an article on start ups by Paul Graham, which was mentioned in class: http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html

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Arthur Klepchukov said

at 4:51 pm on Oct 11, 2008

General feedback from my friend, Dave Cortright:

My 2¢ is that most of the projects aren’t very “customer needs” centric. Maybe not the goal of the course, but I’d encourage the students to work on a project that might actually get traction outside of a mere academic exercise. A lot of them seem like random mash-ups with limited usefulness (Tag Cloud for Email, ArtPart, CanYouVote), or ideas that provide little to differentiate from existing offerings (SeeMail is “like Xobni”, DesignerHub and Yet Another Rails Forum — does the world need another?).

Some more promising ones that seem like the could achieve real traction (but of course, additional user research would be needed) are WherePee, Schedoo and FeedMe.

A good question for your students to ask is “Would anyone pay money for this?”. Or even more aggressively, “Would anyone camp out overnight for the privilege of buying this (like an iPhone or Wii)”.

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