Life is beautiful (External Project Pitching)

Life is beautiful! Yes! I believe so!

During the external project pitching session, Module Review left the most impression on me. Firstly, Module-review is an interesting idea although the current Module-review site is not wonderfully done. The thing that I like most about them is their enterprising spirit and their courage to really start a business although they are still students.They may not become successful. However, it is the experience that counts right now as they are still young and learning.

Another thing is that their idea is very similar to what I have in mind. My idea is not to review modules but to review textbooks related to modules. Here is a short description of my idea.

When a user starts the fb aps for the first time, he or she is required to choose his country. Then the user has to choose a school from the list of schools in the country. If the user's school is not in our database yet, we would ask him to create a new school. The school will be listed as pending until it's varified by the administrator. Then his or her school will appear in the school list. Then the student can start choosing the modules offered in the school and then the textbook associated with the modules. Reading, writing reviews, ranking of textbooks if several books are available, interaction among users, etc. will be allowed. If the modules or the textbook is not in the database yet, the user can add new modules or textbooks in a similar way to adding new schools. The administrator will occationally check the lists to make sure that there are no duplicates. The application will also allow users to sell the textbooks in the application. It will give senior students more incetive to write reviews and rate the textbooks as they can sell their old textbooks at the same time.

Also, the reviews will be rated by other users to make sure that no one will be fooling around with reviews. "Report" buttons will be included to allow user to alert the administrator if they have any complaints about reviews or other users. As an expension, the application can also include "rate your professor", "rate modules" and "review modules" functions.

I say "life is wonderful" in the beginning because I believe that life gives us so many chances. Actually too many chance to fail if we keep trying! Isn't it beautiful?