The Problem
Our client approached us seeking to build a platform that connected student athletes with university coaches to help them get recruited onto league-level programs. The platform needed to contain coach contact information for all NCAA and NAIA universities and their sports. It also needed to be user-friendly in order to create a stress-free experience for students looking to further their athletic careers.
Our Solution
We built a web app system that satisfied our client’s requirements, along with a simple static website for marketing purposes. The recruitment platform follows proper usability principles and allows students to conveniently submit contact requests to their preferred coaches. Additionally, we built an admin portal that enables our client to take over student accounts and manage university information.
What We Did
Student Portal
We built a student portal with a user-friendly onboarding process where they can input their preferred sports, athletic achievements, academic level, and personal stats like their height and weight.
Automatic Emails
When a student comes across a coach they’d like to contact, they can simply click a button and a pre-written email is automatically sent to their inbox. Once the coach has opened the email, students are notified that they have read their request.
Data Collection
One of the biggest challenges of this platform was collecting, cleaning, and processing coach data. In total, we collected over 57,000 rows of coach contact information across more than 1,000 universities with athletic programs. This data is essential for the running of this platform.
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Aviation Marketplace Platform
The team was very responsive and easy to work with. They are professional, talented, and experienced team. They were able to meet all our requirements.
Idea Maker is distinguished for their personalized collaboration and white glove services. The team is dependable and reliable, sticking to the project's plan, offering feedback, and pushing back on the right things.
The way they understand the requirements we present to them is fairly solid. Both in terms of bringing their own interpretation in nailing the requirements and their design sense. By the time we launched, I had gotten significantly more value from our collaboration than what we had discussed in the original specs.
This is a boutique development firm where the Founder is directly involved with the project and the primary contact. This is unlike many development firms where you are simply handed off to developers that are not stakeholders. This is an important distinction that results in much better project accountability.
I have never had a site like this built before. I felt that Idea Maker and Tom had built numerous sites like this, and they were pros.
Idea Maker's portfolio is what drew us in. Their design style was in alignment with what we were after. We had initial consultations with 3 companies that we had narrowed it down to. Once we had our initial meeting with Tom at Idea Maker we knew we had the right choice to make. Their communication style works well for us.
Their customer service is excellent — they’re incredibly accessible and available, which I appreciate. Furthermore, they have enough experience and bandwidth to fulfill all my needs. They’re one of the best vendors I’ve worked with.
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