Prepmate

July 16,2022

PrepMate

Aspirants who are preparing for exams are heavily moving towards remote preparation. Barring the exceptional few, it is hard to keep motivation alive. and work and work and work.

PrepMate is a focusmate fork, specialised for exam preparation. People who are preparing for exams can schedule preparation sessions with each other and match with random people (or people from their own milieu) And Setup prepsession with them. When the time comes, people will be allowed to access the video call. Both parties can introduce themselves and their goals and then mute each other and work for 45 - 90 minutes. After that, there can be an optional discussion to go over each other’s notes or maybe in discuss light stuff.

Happy flow (new user)

• Signs up with G
• Gets introduction video/ guide about the platform.
• Goes directly to the meeting scheduler UI
• Schedules meeting with people for the future.
• Gets notification 30 minutes and 10 minutes before the call.
• Joins call, Finds a person who is preparing the same exam but from a different city/state/country.
• Both parties introduce each other and mention their goals. Then both party mutes each other.
• Works for 45/90 minutes. gets a notification saying session has ended.
• Participants are given 30 minutes to discuss their session and other banter.
• Marks person as favorite (So that this person will be given preference next time).

Challenges

• Video calls could end up being very resource intensive and require a lot of resources.
• Stability of the calls + app. Study session must not be broken. ++
• Multilingual support.
  • This has to be anticipated for, from day one. As most people might not be upto speed on the same language.
• Supporting even very basic versions of phones not costly ones.
• Which exams to focus on, in the beginning.

Why now?

• Accelerated remote work
• Hyper-focused audience group.

Competitors

• Focusmate

last update: 2024-09-06