Track your campus carbon footprint automatically from dorm energy and meal plans.
Climatetech students struggle to achieve personal sustainability goals because carbon footprint trackers fail to integrate with campus meal plans and dorm energy usage.
DormEcoTrack integrates with campus APIs for real-time dorm energy usage and meal plan data to calculate your daily carbon footprint. It provides personalized insights and tips tailored to student life. Achieve sustainability goals with accurate, effortless tracking.
Students enrolled in climatetech courses living in campus dorms and using meal plans
Seamless campus-specific integrations ignored by generic trackers.
supportive
Connect to university APIs for dorm energy and meal plan data.
Compute carbon footprint from integrated data with visualizations.
Set personal sustainability targets with progress tracking.
Interactive charts showing trends over time.
AI-generated tips based on your footprint data.
Weekly email summaries of achievements.
Share progress badges on social media.
Download CSV of footprint history.
Compare anonymously with dorm averages.
PWA for on-the-go tracking.
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| text | No | |
| campus_id | uuid | No |
| dorm_room | text | Yes |
| created_at | timestamp | No |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| name | text | No |
| api_endpoint | text | Yes |
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| user_id | uuid | No |
| date | timestamp | No |
| energy_co2 | int | No |
| meal_co2 | int | No |
| total_co2 | int | No |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| user_id | uuid | No |
| target_co2 | int | No |
| period_days | int | No |
Relationships:
/api/campusesList available campuses
/api/users/meGet user profile
/api/integrations/connectConnect campus API
/api/footprintsFetch user footprints
/api/footprints/todayCalculate and save today's footprint
/api/goalsCreate/update goals
/api/dashboardGet dashboard data
/api/tipsFetch personalized tips
50 footprints/month
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| Month | Users | Conversion | MRR | ARR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month 1 | 100 | 3% | $81 | $972 |
| Month 6 | 800 | 7% | $1,512 | $18,144 |
Integrate with campus meals and energy for accurate sustainability tracking.
Email 10 climatetech professors with demo links, post in university Discord servers for climatetech courses, and DM students from course syllabi on LinkedIn offering free Pro access for feedback.
General tracking
No campus integrations
Dorm/meal specific data
Simple UI
Generic, no student focus
Campus accuracy
First-mover campus integrations creating data network effects.
Rising campus sustainability mandates and climatetech enrollment boom.
Campus API access denied
Fallback to manual input + partnerships
Low student adoption
Free tier + course integrations
Build delays
Strict timeline scoping
Success: 70% express interest
Success: 50% retention week 2
Success: 200 signups
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