About PeerNote
PeerNote started with a problem every college student knows: it's hard to find people to study with if you don't already have friends in a class, and if you miss a lecture, getting good notes depends on who you happen to know.
What we believe
Students learn more together. Research on peer learning consistently finds that explaining ideas to each other and comparing understanding improves outcomes. Your classmates already have the pieces you're missing. We wanted to make swapping those pieces easy, and to make it just as easy to find the right person to study with.
We also believe a tool like this has to protect academic integrity. That's why notes have academic-integrity checks and class files have upload safeguards, and why PeerNote will never be a place to trade exam answers.
How it's built
Next.js
React framework for the pages and server logic, written in TypeScript.
Supabase
Postgres database, user accounts, and row-level security that keeps each course's notes private to its students.
Jitsi Meet
Free, open-source video calls, with a private room for each course.
Vercel
Hosting, deployed automatically from GitHub, served on our own domain.
The team
Six Tulane students who wanted a better way to study together.
- AmeliaProject management
- AviProject management
- EmilyFrontend and design
- AmaryaFrontend and design
- MilesBackend, testing, and deployment
- DannyBackend, testing, and deployment