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Rollbook Desk
One calm office for attendance, fees, records and parent notices
- Score
- 30
- confidence 53
- Evidence
- 4
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 0
- named in sources
- First version
- 45 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop app
- PWA: runs in the browser, installs on Mac and Windows
- Market since
- 1990
- Mature market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop app: School administrators work at their desk with spreadsheets of attendance, fees and records, reviewing dashboards and sending notices. Sample screens on a computer, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Today
Term 2, week 412 tasks
About this appAI proposal
Rollbook Desk is a school management app for administrators of small and mid-sized schools. It keeps student records, attendance, fee tracking and parent messages in one place, so the office stops juggling spreadsheets, paper forms and separate tools.
It is built around daily office tasks, not a long list of modules. A start-of-day board shows what needs action: absences to confirm, overdue fees, unsigned forms and notices waiting to go out. Each task opens in one or two taps on a phone.
This is a proposal. The material only says founders built a school management app after finding shortcomings in existing ones, so these features are a starting point to test with real administrators.
- Tagline
- The school office, without the pile of tabs.
- Voice
- CalmPlainReliable
- Why this name
- A rollbook is the register a school office keeps. Desk says it is where the office works. Two plain words, easy to say.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
Today board
A start-of-day list of open tasks: absences, overdue fees, unsigned forms and pending notices, each a tap from resolved.
No member yet
Student records
One profile per student with guardians, contacts, medical notes, documents and history. Search by name or class.
No member yet
Fast attendance
Teachers mark attendance from a phone in under a minute. The office sees gaps and confirms absences with guardians.
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Fee tracking
Set fee plans per class, record payments, see who owes what, and send guardians reminders with a payment link.
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Brand identityAI proposal
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PricingAI proposal
The material gives no competitor prices. It only says existing apps charge schools subscriptions. These tiers are a starting point to test, not market-based figures.
Small school
$49 a month
- Up to 150 students
- Records, attendance and notices
- Fee tracking
- Email support
Standard
$119 a month
- Up to 600 students
- Everything in Small school
- Digital forms
- Staff roles
- Spreadsheet import and export
Yearly Standard
$1190 a year
- Same as Standard
- Two months free
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- Shared outputs. Notices, fee reminders and permission forms go to guardians as links and emails carrying a small Sent with Rollbook Desk line. Guardians include people who work at, or sit on boards of, other schools.
- Do they become customers?
- Guardians mostly cannot buy school software, so reach is mainly exposure. Test whether a share of guardians who also work in schools click through and request a demo.
- First customers
- Office managers and heads of independent private schools with 100 to 400 students that still run on spreadsheets and paper forms, in one country or region.
- Where to reach them
- Direct outreach: Email and call school administrators in one region, offering a free import of their student list and a trial term.
- Hacker News and founder posts: Share the build and ask administrators using school management apps what they miss; invite them to a pilot.
- School admin communities: Join administrator groups and forums, answer questions on attendance and fee collection, and offer pilots.
- First milestone
- Five schools in one region pay for a full term after a free pilot, and use the Today board weekly.
Why people already pay for this
- Public claimThe founders built a school management app after identifying shortcomings in the existing market.
- Public claimThe app has paying customers on a subscription model.
- Public claimThe product has been in development for three years.
- VerifiedGitHub repository gained 888 stars in 4916 days
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Scheduled jobsBackground job runner for remindersFee reminders, absence alerts and notice sends must run on a schedule.
- This app · File storagePrivate object storage with signed linksSigned forms and student documents need access-controlled storage.
RisksAI inference
- RegulatoryStudent records are sensitive and children's data rules vary by country and region. Consent, retention and access rules must be checked before the first school signs up.
- CommercialThe sources mention one existing app with paying customers after three years of work. Schools may be slow to switch from tools they already use.
- DataMigrating messy spreadsheets and old system exports into clean records may take more effort than the product itself.
- TechnicalRow-level access must be right so a teacher never sees records outside their classes. Errors would be serious.
- CommercialSchool buying is seasonal and often needs head or board approval, so sales cycles may be long.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.