About DormRoom
I started DormRoom because of the stress of move-in day. Students and parents show up to a room they've never seen and figure everything out on the spot. I want to take that stress away for both of them.
The problem
A housing assignment says which building and room, but not how big it is, where the window sits, or how the furniture fits.
Families buy rugs, shelves and storage before move-in, then return them when the room turns out smaller or shaped differently.
Two people share one small space and usually have no way to agree on a layout or split who brings what.
Everything gets figured out on the spot, in a hallway full of other families doing the same thing.
What comes next
Once students have a finished layout, the next step is turning it into a real room. Students order furniture and decor from retailers like IKEA and Wayfair, and independent contractors build and set it up in the room before move-in day. This is the part of DormRoom that scales.
Go-to-market
The key advantage is plugging straight into a university's housing software, so the right room appears the moment a student is assigned. A free first pilot builds the case study every other housing office will ask for.
Offered to Marquette free. Model its residence halls and connect to its housing system.
Track how students use it and what Housing hears back through the first room-selection and move-in cycle.
License to housing offices at $4 per bed per year, about $15,000 a year for a campus of roughly 3,700 beds.
How it makes money
Market: about 2.5 million freshmen start college in the U.S. every year, and 2,073 U.S. schools offer on-campus housing. Sources: National Student Clearinghouse, fall 2025; UnivStats.
Founder
Founder · Accounting & Finance, sophomore