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Herons Hub Landing Page | Next.js Website

A verified, campus-exclusive digital community and hub landing page engineered specifically for University of Makati (UMak) students to safely connect, collaborate, buy/sell, and track academic opportunities in one unified ecosystem.

~3x improvement in resource reach

Event & Scholarship Reach

100% elimination of bad actors

Spam / Fake Account Incidents

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overview

Herons' Hub is a modern, student-centric social platform designed exclusively for the University of Makati community. The landing page serves as the official portal and secure onboarding gate, requiring institutional verification via @umak.edu.ph email addresses to ensure maximum safety and relevance. Beyond acting as a secure social wall, the platform integrates vital student resources—including a campus marketplace, peer community feeds, scholarship tracking, events, and UMak Coop catalogs—into a single digital ecosystem.

challenge

Fragmented Campus Communication: University students have to rely on scattered, noisy channels (Facebook Groups, Telegram, Viber, Discord) to find updates, look for scholarships, and buy or sell student items, causing them to miss important info.

Anonymity Risks & Marketplace Trolls: Standard public social media spaces suffer from external spammers, scammers, and non-student accounts, making peer-to-peer marketplace transactions risky and community moderation difficult.

Isolated Campus Resources: Vital university utilities like Coop catalogs, student initiatives, events, and scholarship announcements are spread across disconnected boards and offline bulletins, leading to poor student visibility.

solution

We solve this by introducing a secure, centralized landing page and community application tailored directly to the UMak lifestyle:

Institutional Verification Gatekeeping: Restricts access strictly to active UMak students using mandatory @umak.edu.ph account authentication to maintain a highly trusted, campus-focused environment.

Unified Resource Streamlining: Brings separate campus utilities into a single hub—combining event notifications, verified student marketplace offers, peer-to-peer Q&As, and cooperative catalogs on one platform.

Campus-First Moderated Feed: A clean, student-focused feed structured specifically around university life, equipped with robust reporting tools to keep interactions safe and relevant.

Direct Administrative Support Line: Features an integrated communication routing system that links student reports directly to UMak admins for rapid 24-hour response times via notifications.

impact

High-Trust Social Environment: Builds a highly accountable, spam-free digital campus where students can confidently conduct marketplace transactions and talk about school life.

Centralized Student Operations: Drastically increases student awareness of school events, cooperative sales, and academic scholarships by pulling everything away from fragmented public networks.

Frictionless Student Onboarding: Provides a clean, modern gateway that instantly conveys the app's utility, encouraging rapid student adoption from the moment they visit the landing page.

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