Scoach

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  Proposed Timeline

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  Design sketches

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  Login Page

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  Student Sign Up Page

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  Coach Sign Up Page

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  Figma Project Overview

Inspiration

As sports enthusiasts, we have always wanted to be better at the sport quickly to be able to join the university team. However, during our time at UCSD, we realized that finding a badminton coach for a one-hour private lesson is $60 while a group lesson costs you $40 for two hours if you can find 5 students to undergo the lesson, and that is after we were able to find a suitable coach for us. It took us two months to be able to find and gather people to take the lessons together. That's when we came up with the idea of scoach to help students sign up for sports lessons more easily.

What it does

scoach is an online database of coaches and a matchmaking platform, inspired by how Airbnb manages their listing. scoach is designed to help us find the perfect coach while also providing other members with the same sports interests to take sports lessons together. scoach will reduce the amount of time for you to find the perfect mentor and give you reduced cost if you opted for the group lessons. scoach will also increase our coaches' visibility and revenue through the platform as we will continue adding more coaches in various different sports as our partners.

How we built it

We used Figma as our main prototyping tool. Our design is heavily inspired by how Airbnb manages their listings and how carpooling apps such as Uber, Lyft, and Waze do their matchmaking.

Challenges we ran into

We needed more time to polish our user interface, design and user experience but we managed to do our best given our limited resources and time.

We also ditched our efforts to finish up completing our prototype in React and hosting it through Digital Ocean due to our lack of experience with creating a fully fledged web application.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We accomplished our draft on our first prototype using Figma. During our experimentation stage, we managed to setup a Digital Ocean Droplet which was planned to be our hosting site for our application. We managed to create a lean business plan as we plan on pitching this to VCs, hoping that we can partner up and make this project as a viable start-up, helping small businesses and coaches alike throughout our platform.

What we learned

We tried setting up a web hosting server via Digital Ocean, picked up React as fast as we could and we did a brief research and planning on how we would launch our platform further.

What's next for scoach

The next step for scoach is to do a proof of concept, creating a more in-depth web application prototype with low-cost matchmaking system and getting some coaches and students to sign-up for testing.

After gaining traction with our initial testing, we would start doing partnerships with different gyms and sports courts to help promote their business. This will give us more opportunities for us to get more coaches who do not have a place to teach the students or give existing coaches who are currently working on location to get more advertisement in their field.

Built With

• animaker
• figma