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An API for startups in education (oneschool.com)
51 points by zpj5005 on Oct 27, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 12 comments



Maybe someone at OneSchool can clear this up: http://oneschool.com/students/

"We're the #1 app for college students at campuses around the country. Want to bring OneSchool to your campus? Email us and we'll get back to you faster than you can say "I need you now.""

Really? It's been awhile since I've been a student on campus, but I'd venture to guess that Facebook, Shazaam, Pandora, and Instagram are all more ubiquitous than OneSchool. In terms of use, at least, and probably in terms of install rate.

So I'm guessing that there is a specific category and specific use that maybe OneSchool is the leader in. But whoever wrote the copy for that webpage clearly does not think such distinctions matter or that OneSchool's customers are the kind to be bamboozled by such a claim. But I think most API developers do care about such things as granularity of data.


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Spending your time trying to derogate someone's reputation...classy. David is one of those people that you only have to meet once in order to see that they are going to do something extraordinary, something most people would never dare to try. He has impacted the penn state community and I look forward to seeing how he can impact other colleges.


I like how they created an anonymous account just to make derogatory comments. Who are you, and what is your credibility?


Hi Innoblown,

Happy to discuss any pertinent issues you have; wumi@psu.edu

Sincerely,

David


"When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical."

Judge the product. Not the individual behind it.


As someone who has worked with David Adewumi in the past, the only hyperbole and over-selling are the attempts to discredit him. His passion is second to none and his leadership style is results-oriented. I am not part of the OneSchool team but if there was one person I'd travel across the country with carrying only $2,000 and a start-up vision, it would be David Adewumi.


OneSchool is looking for beta users to build the first products on top of its API.

The API is part of a larger OPEN movement to liberate data from schools and enable startups to build amazing products from that data. http://oneschool.com/open


I signed up at the bottom of that page, but I don't know how you're distinguishing students from teachers from developers in that signup form. I'm a developer that would like to checkout the API, assuming you have some data in it already.


That's a good point. I just added it to the form but if you want us to add that to your application email us at api@oneschool.com


It talks about "the country" - is that the US?



This is brilliant. How many schools are you guys at? I just signed up.




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