Connect your student repair app to campus partners for subsidized bookings
Bootstrapped developers building automotive repair booking apps for broke college students are seeing margins obliterated due to the audience's inability to afford premium services.
CampusFixNet matches dev apps with university garages, sponsors, and student unions for bulk discounts passed to users. It handles partnership negotiations and revenue shares automatically. Devs gain margins via commissions while students get 50% off repairs.
Bootstrapped indie developers creating apps for college student car maintenance
Exclusive campus network access tailored for indie apps
friendly
Searchable list of 100+ campus partners
Auto-creates discount codes for app bookings
Webhook for real-time partner matching
Payouts and analytics per partner
API verifies student status for deals
AI drafts partnership emails
Conversion rates by campus
Notify users of expiring deals
Dashboard for multiple projects
Custom partner pages
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| text | No |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| user_id | uuid | No |
| campus_filter | text | Yes |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| name | text | No |
| campus | text | No |
| commission_rate | int | No |
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| app_id | uuid | No |
| partner_id | uuid | No |
| discount_applied | int | No |
| timestamp | timestamp | No |
Relationships:
/api/partners/searchFind campus partners
/api/deals/createGenerate deal code
/api/commissionsView earnings
/api/webhook/bookingProcess booking match
/api/appsRegister app
50 deals/mo
500 deals/mo
None
| Month | Users | Conversion | MRR | ARR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month 1 | 15 | 13% | $59 | $708 |
| Month 6 | 120 | 18% | $650 | $7,800 |
Partner network subsidizes bookings, margins for you
Scrape Twitter for 'building car app college' posts, offer free partner access. Email 20 uni auto clubs for partnerships. Post MVP in r/SaaS_ideas targeting student niches.
Student groups
No monetization
Repair-specific revenue
WordPress affiliates
No campus focus
Niche partnerships
Network effects from growing partner-dev matches
Uni budget cuts + remote apps boom
Partner acquisition slow
Seed with 50 manual partners
Webhook reliability
Supabase queues
Success: 5 interested
Success: 1 live deal
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