staypluggedin.com

Opportunity summary

Stay Plugged In is a specialized recruitment platform designed to bridge the gap between competitive gamers and collegiate esports programs. The platform serves as a centralized hub where student-athletes can discover available esports scholarships and navigate the complex landscape of collegiate gaming opportunities. By aggregating scholarship information and facilitating direct connections between players and university programs, it streamlines the scouting and recruitment process. The platform's core value proposition lies in its ability to organize the fragmented landscape of esports financial aid, providing visibility to both talent and institutions. It functions by presenting a searchable database of opportunities, allowing users to track applications and manage their recruitment journey effectively, ultimately professionalizing the path from amateur gaming to collegiate-level competition.

What to study

Who it's for

Aspiring esports athletes and college esports recruiters.

Risks / avoid if

• •Moderate replication difficulty — expect non-trivial engineering effort to reach parity.
• •Moderate competition — several players are already active in this space, so a clear angle matters.
• •Unique data dependency — the product's advantage relies on data access that's hard to acquire from scratch.