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HSCareer

First "shot" at entrepreneurship. High school networking app to help students find personalized opportunities based on their interests. Gained 50 users.

Pros

  • Hands on Experience: Made business model, identified users w/MOM test, solved problem
  • Networking + Presenting: Created and pitched decks, pitching to local tutoring centers. Met founders in the app and social network space.
  • MVP: Developed MVP. Learned a lot about app dev + basic database schematics

Cons

  • Team: Solo project.
  • Scalability: Did not put resources into this, just free tier of firebase
  • Moat: ex: data, distribution, design weak.