Coding Review/Mentoring
As a CS student who only started learning about coding since
freshman year of college and had to mostly learn coding styles, standards, and conventions
on my own through classes (which I also feel that majority of CS students go
through the same process), I feel that aren’t many resources established around
school campuses that are dedicated to helping students learn these useful fundamentals.
When it comes to English writing classes, there are writing centers, tutoring,
even paper review services that are available to help students improve their
writing skills. In the same way for coding, I think a business that aims to
help students improving their coding skills, reviewing their codes, and giving
feedback can be something that’s extremely helpful at the same time profitable.
Obviously, the business idea is limited to the marketplace of only college students
and younger adults. On top of that, CS programs around the local area are very
strict on academic integrity, especially when it comes to plagiarism. That is
why I think this business must enforces the idea that its service is purely
from a giving feedback on coding styles, or ways to write easy-to-read codes,
or structuring classes, etc… The service is not meant to solve any problem that
student would have on a homework, but rather only providing feedback that aims
to improve the student’s coding skills.
Grocery Shopping Service
This is by no mean an original business idea, but I think it
can still be profitable at a local level. Companies like Amazon have already
offered this kind of service – shopping and delivering people’s grocery list to
their door. However, at a corporate level, shipping costs are often high and undesirable,
especially if the price for the list is anything as equal or less than the
shipping cost itself—hence why this type of service hasn’t evolved a lot in the
past recent years. However, at a local level and small business, we have an
advantage of familiarity with stores around the area, better delivery time, and
perhaps membership with local store. By membership with local store, I mean if the
business has a decent customer base, membership cards with local retailers
under the name of our business could help us save money on purchases at the
same time gaining profit from essentially selling the products to customers at
the price of their standings with the stores. Of course, the delivery charge must
be reasonable and more desirable than that of Amazon’s. If the customer base grows,
we save more on fuel costs as we get to shop for many customers with one trip.
An app interface or online website is preferable.
Writing Software Application for Local Businesses
This idea comes from the mention of “beer and date money”.
Small businesses are often the ones that seek to bring their businesses online
an expand them. Offering to write websites, software, or mobile apps can be a
good way for a soon to be graduated student to earn some earning and build
resume for the time being looking for future career opportunities…
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