DropMessenger
June 8, 2008 @ 1:40 pm
When I was in college, I was always struggling to get the class I wanted, at the times I wanted, with the teachers I wanted. I solved a lot of that problem by building a little script for my personal use that would text-message me letting me know someone had dropped a course that was full and I was trying to add.
Anyway, it took me awhile to get the time, but I finally rolled it into a website that I hope other students find useful.
I’m calling it DropMessenger.
Update: DropMessenger is no longer active. While it was a useful tool, I didn’t have the time to maintain the parsing library adequately. Essentially, colleges would update their class schedule pages and I would have to rework how the pages were parsed to extract the data.