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Commerce · December 5, 2012

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Book Cheaply - Don't buy textbooks you don't need (side project)

In short, Rate My Professor for books. http://www.bookcheaply.com/ As a college student I bought many textbooks that I never used. I could have saved significant amounts of money if I had some sort of website where I could find out if the book was necessary for my courses. Out of that frustration, Book Cheaply was born. I currently only have two schools, Grand Valley State University(GVSU) and Grand Rapids Community College(GRCC). I'm already starting to rank pretty high on Google for queries like: <instructor name> gvsu, or <instructor name> <some course> gvsu, which…

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In short, Rate My Professor for books. http://www.bookcheaply.com/ As a college student I bought many textbooks that I never used. I could have saved significant amounts of money if I had some sort of website where I could find out if the book was necessary for my courses. Out of that frustration, Book Cheaply was born. I currently only have two schools, Grand Valley State University(GVSU) and Grand Rapids Community College(GRCC). I'm already starting to rank pretty high on Google for queries like: <instructor name> gvsu, or <instructor name> <some course> gvsu, which makes me feel pretty good. I also just got my first unsolicited reviews (4!) on Book Cheaply today. That being said, my design is pretty bad. I'm a developer with zero design chops, so I just tried to make how to use the site as obvious as possible. It's also hosted on an underpowered shared vps on DreamHost. Any feedback would be appreciated and I'd be happy to answer any questions. Thanks!

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