The Tweet
EDURain co-founder and full stack developer Eli Front is still in high school. To help the 630-ish students at John Burroughs School keep track of daily schedule changes, the lunch menu and other fluid information Front launched JBSDash.com.
Today the school principal apparently included a screen shot of the website in an email to the whole school to let students know that in spite of cold weather, they were having a regularly scheduled day.
Eli Front, JBSdash
“I knew she knew about it but I was excited,” Front told the 4thEst8. “It was a black market kind of application because kids aren’t supposed to be on their phone during school but when she referenced it… it was validating.”
Teachers are supposed to take phones away during school, but Front says some teachers leave the site up on monitors during class, because they appear to use it too. John Burroughs has several types of day schedules, and the type for any given day was only available by looking in the printed school planner and hearing the day type announced at the daily assembly. It can be confusing.
“It’s the best feeling in the world to see people using your product when you have never even talked with them in your life,” said Front. Others have taken note
“It’s great having him on the team,” EDURain CEO Bryon Pierson told the 4thEst8 after hearing about Front’s side project engagement. “He’s building cool stuff that people want to use.”
Front says that he’s not sure what the numbers will look like on a bad weather day like today, but that he routinely gets 7000-10,000 weekly page views and a typical day shows 100 users with an average engagement of about a minute. After high school Front is a full stack developer for the St. Louis startup EDURain.
A call to the school requesting comment was not immediately returned.
