WhoBuilt

CourseMatch

Harvard course selection tool.

Also known as Course Graph, Course Match

Key facts

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Capabilities
let students enter planned classes and see what classes others had taken or planned to take

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How we verify
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20132 events
  1. reported 2013-10Capability
    Let students enter planned classes and see what classes others had taken or planned to take
    “I wrote this little script that scraped the course catalog and let people put in what classes they wanted.” 2:24
    Unverified1 source· Talk
  2. reported 2013-10Built
    Mark Zuckerberg built CourseMatch
    creator
    “one of the first things I built ... was called Course Match” 2:04
    Verified2 sources· Talk, Web· archived

Talks 1

36:22
Mark Zuckerberg at Startup School 2013

Mark Zuckerberg describes how early projects such as Course Match and a study tool helped him learn to build products for communities, leading to Facebook. He argues that real identity and connections made Facebook useful, and that founders can succeed despite limited resources by caring deeply, learning from mistakes, and staying determined. He shares lessons on hiring people he would want to work for, building teams that make better decisions together, and focusing on the one strategic priority that matters most. He also discusses Facebook’s expansion, competition, and its mission to connect people around the world.

Oct 26, 2013· 36 minDiscussed 2:04