Would You Recommend (Wyr)
Better professor ratings for Rutgers students
About
Led building Wyr as PM of a student incubator. A professor rating platform that simplifies comparing professors by integrating SIRS (internal Rutgers reviews) and Reddit reviews.
The value prop: search by class and filter for reviews of that specific class only. See internal Rutgers reviews alongside Reddit reviews.
When engineers failed to scrape ratemyprofessor, I spent 15+ hours over a weekend manually copying
reviews to pre-fill the site for launch — learned from The LX project the importance of content at launch.
Details
Problem
Students struggle to evaluate professors effectively across scattered sources.
Solution
Unified platform combining SIRS, Reddit, and other reviews in one place.
Impact
700 students in 3 days helping them choose classes for Fall 2021.
Learning
User feedback loops, iterative design, importance of content at launch.