Schedulator blog

I am happy to announce that as the end of this summer, we have a new member to our team, Niru Maheswaranathan.  Niru is a good friend of both Nick and mine and is motivated to push the Schedulator forward, making it more useful for students.

With his help, we have rushed in the past few weeks to implement a new feature in time for this upcoming semester.  As of today, on every schedule displayed The Schedulator will get the textbooks required for those classes and display the amount of available savings with Amazon.com over Duke’s Textbook Store prices.  Clicking on the link below the schedule will show users a table of prices with the lowest price highlighted.

To be perfectly honest, we see this is as a win/win situation.  We believe this is a feature that will streamline the drop/add process and help students save money.  At the same time, by merely pointing out deals to students we have an opportunity to make a few bucks off Amazon, which will go towards internal costs such as upgrading our servers for the future.  So if you like The Schedulator, please contribute in a small way simply by doing what is best for you, saving money on your textbooks.

We are looking forward to making this feature more robust in coming months, pulling data from more sources and making the interface even more fluid; so make sure to check back in the future for updates.  We hope this feature comes in handy in the coming weeks and that you have a good first few weeks of school.

Alex