Collaborate on climatetech notebooks with sustainability classmates—real-time.
Graduate students in sustainability programs lack seamless integration between climatetech simulation tools and student-friendly coding environments like Jupyter.
ClimateCollab is a shared Jupyter-like environment where grad students co-edit and run climatetech simulations together. Teams sync simulations from tools like LEAP and RETScreen, with version history and comments. It bridges solo coding with group projects common in sustainability theses.
Graduate students in sustainability programs
Sustainability-specific collab with built-in peer review workflows and sim result merging for group assignments.
friendly
Multi-user Jupyter-style notebook editing
Shared runs of climatetech tools across users
Organize notebooks by class/project
Git-like diffs for notebooks
Inline feedback on cells/results
Embed Zoom for sim reviews
Merge results into shared PDF
Push/pull notebooks
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| text | No | |
| name | text | Yes |
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| owner_id | uuid | No |
| name | text | No |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| project_id | uuid | No |
| content | jsonb | No |
| versions | jsonb | Yes |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| project_id | uuid | No |
| user_id | uuid | No |
Relationships:
/api/projectsCreate project
/api/projects/:id/joinJoin project
/api/notebooks/:id/contentUpdate notebook real-time
/api/simulations/shared/:idRun sim for project
5 members/project
Student teams
10+ seats
| Month | Users | Conversion | MRR | ARR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month 1 | 40 | 4% | $24 | $288 |
| Month 6 | 250 | 7% | $262 | $3,147 |
Sustainability grads: Real-time collab on Jupyter-like envs with sim tools. Perfect for group theses and classes.
Target sustainability program Facebook groups and Slack channels for class projects. Offer free Pro to group leaders from top 5 unis (e.g., Columbia, ETH Zurich). Run a giveaway in grad student forums for first teams.
Easy sharing
No sim integrations
Built-in climatetech collab
Network effects from class groups locking into shared projects.
Hybrid learning boom post-pandemic increases need for remote academic collab in niche fields.
Realtime sync issues
Use battle-tested Yjs
Preference for free tools
Generous free tier
Collab complexity
MVP single project focus
Success: Interest from 3 teams
Success: Daily usage
Success: 20% referral signups
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