DormScope

Nationwide college dorm intelligence — search, score, map, and compare on-campus housing.

overview

A monorepo platform for discovering and comparing on-campus dorms across the US: an interactive map, a dorm-fit recommendation quiz, and a 0–100 scoring model.

problem

Dorm information is scattered across individual university housing sites with no consistent way to compare buildings, amenities, or fit across schools.

what was built

Structured as a Turborepo with separated apps and packages — a Next.js web app and Express API, plus dedicated packages for the database layer (PostgreSQL + Prisma), a Playwright/Cheerio scraper, and a scoring engine that turns public housing data into a 0–100 'DormScope score.' Ships with Docker Compose for local dev and optional BullMQ/Redis for background scraping jobs.

technical decisions

Separated scraper, scoring, and database concerns into their own packages so the scoring model can evolve independently of data collection.
Used only public data sources, documented explicitly in the README.

outcome

Sole author, verifiable in GitHub commit history.

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