UniPocket
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Summary: CTO; App for students all around the world to share books, find the best lunch deals and much more.
UniPocket was an app for students to capture the social aspect of studying. It included many different features and could be described as a “super app” (which may have been its biggest flaw):
left: UniPocket start screen; right: book marketplace
left: find my friends at university (friend radar on campus); right: chat between students
left: events (and who’s attending); right: university & campus news
daily lunch deals
And we implemented even more features, which unfortunately I don’t have screenshots of:
- match making (for learn buddies, parties, dating, learning new languages via the tandem program, etc.)
- sECTS (social ECTS)
- news bombs: people could drop so-called “news bombs” (messages to other users) and set an explosion radius, if other UniPocket users would cross that time-space area they get a push notification containing the message
Close before launch day, we started a guerilla marketing campaign in Vienna. But we didn’t launch only in Austria – no, that would have been way to easy – we launched globally. For that we scraped hundreds of universities from all around the globe for their location, logo, new channels (social media and RSS), homepage, course of studies, etc.
How we marketed our app on launch day in Vienna.
We were even mentioned by the press, for example 2015 in an article from Die Presse about various student apps.
- title
- UniPocket
- start
- 2014
- end
- 2016
- link
- none
- role
- CTO & founding member
- type
- job