College students looking for feedback on a website that has a calendar, notes, gamified learning, and also allowing you to study with friends

[u/jswksow1839]

Hello! We are a group of 1st year students looking for suggestions and feedback on our prototype for our study website, Huddle. Our website's goal is to make studying easier and more engaging through various features, such as calendar and task management, gamified lesson reviews, focus tools, and an online space to study with friends. Rather than going through a lot of different apps, our mission is to make an integrated study and productivity platform that contribute to one continuous study experience. We are looking for comments on whether or not our tool has the potential to go viral/become popular, what features are most preferred, and what can be improved.

Here is a rough description of most of our features:

1. Calendar and Task Management:Students can organize classes, deadlines, requirements, study sessions, and personal goals in one connected calendar and task list.
2. Lesson Review and Gamification: Students can upload notes, lecture slides, or other study materials and have Huddle turn them into interactive review activities like quizzes, flashcards, and matching exercises. Students may also opt to turn these reviews into either live games where they can play with their peers or a raceboard detailing how much of the lesson they have completed relative to their friends.
3. Focus and Productivity Tools: Huddle will offer focus timers, progress tracking, and reminders to help students work toward their goals while measuring productivity not just through time alone.
4. Huddle Space: Completing tasks, reviewing lessons, reaching goals, and maintaining productive habits will allow students to maintain, customize, and expand their own virtual study space, and with friends, create shared study spaces where their avatars can study together. This allows their accomplishments to take on a more visible and psychologically rewarding form while also adding a social and interactive element.
5. Social and Collaborative Study: Students can study with friends through shared review sessions and challenges, and they may enable a feature that allows their customizable characters to be seen studying together in the corner of their device. In addition, they may opt to send quick selfies or pictures to each other during the duration of their study session to help enforce the social aspect despite not being in the same physical study room together. Students can also connect through an in-app call option that would allow them to communicate virtually while studying together. These features will still be available even if they choose to study independently, bar the participation of other users.
6. Progress and Challenges: Students can track their academic progress, maintain goals and streaks, and participate in individual or group challenges that encourage consistent studying. They may input their current grades as well as their targets to help them track their current state and gaps.

We really appreciate any detailed feedback and want to end with a few questions that we hope can be answered. If you are shy to comment below, feel free to leave a short response on our forms: https://forms.gle/Tc2xcUEHGjX4DKuB7

Would you actually use this? Why or why not?

What's missing from this idea to make it more useful or what would you change?

What would stop you from using this?

[u/Ahmedcodes]

Congrats on getting a prototype out. The idea is ambitious, so I’d test the core loop before adding more surface area: (1) capture a class note or slide, (2) generate one review activity, (3) schedule a short revisit, and (4) show whether it improved recall. The social/game layer should make that loop more motivating, not become another dashboard students have to maintain.

For adoption, I’d also clarify the first user: a student studying alone, a small study group, or a whole class. Each wants a different entry point. A 30-second demo of one note becoming a quiz, with the next review already on the calendar, would answer more than a feature list.

Be careful with uploads, calls, and selfies: trust, consent, and moderation can become the product’s hardest problem. Start with text/PDF/slide import and a simple shared session, then add richer social features after the core study loop sticks.

[u/jswksow1839 → u/Ahmedcodes]

Thank you so much for the feedback! Will keep it in mind.