How I came up with Notify Me

Since my faculty didn't have any kind of centralized notification system for it's students, each class I took somehow had 2 or 3 sites for notifications depending on number of professors and / or assistants. That basically meant that each time exam season started, I had to look at ~10 different sites just have the basic info about my exams and other stuff that happened on course (e.g when we didn't have lectures).

As you can assume, I quickly got fed up with this and started working on a simple python script which just periodically checked websites and it would send an email to me each time new change was present. Script could only be run locally on my machine, and had rudimentary checks for differences which was based on git diff (since that's the format I already knew).

And it actually worked like a charm - so I started talking with my friends and they asked me if they could use it to. That's where I realized that nobody is going to try it out if trying it out meant that they had to manually install python on their machine and then manually set up everything else. So, naturally I started looking at the ways I could enable them to try it out and I came up with a pretty obvious conclusion that I would probably need some kind of user interface, and most likely some kind of web app.

Fast forward one year: App is widely used among students of my (now former) faculty, and realized that there are not many similar apps which are offering the same service while at the same time being simple to use - Notify Me literally has a form with 3 fields you need to enter.

So I started thinking about how can I improve it for a wider audience and actually make some money of it, and that thinking lead me to the current state of affairs - We are currently a team of 3 trying our best to make Notify Me the best app for simple site tracking.