Hotseat is an all-in-one course enrollment platform for UCLA. We combine student reviews with information directly gathered from the UCLA Registrar so that you can make the best possible decisions when enrolling in classes.

Integration. We're the only course review platform that integrates information directly from the UCLA Registrar. This means we can show data like historic enrollment trends that no one else has.

We get all our info directly from the UCLA Registrar. We run scripts hourly that scrape this info and consolidate it all in one place!

We're Tim and Nathan, two computer science seniors. A couple of years ago, Nathan had trouble enrolling a class he wanted. He started scraping data from the UCLA Registrar to make sure it wouldn't happen again. Tim suggested that other students would be interested in the data and together we decided to build Hotseat!

Users are required to use their @ucla.edu emails in order to write reviews. Additionally, reviews are frequently moderated and removed if they attempt to advertise, contain ad hominem attacks or factual inaccuracies, or are otherwise generally off-topic. We take review integrity very seriously. If you think a review is spam, email us a link to the review and we'll check it out.

As an Amazon Associate Hotseat earns from qualifying purchases. We have a couple other ideas on monetization as we add more features, so stay tuned!

Cool! Email us at advertise@hotseat.io and we can discuss.

Hotseat is a Ruby on Rails application. We scrape data using Ruby and Go and store it in PostgreSQL. We use some TypeScript and React on the frontend and D3 to make the charts. We host most of our services on AWS.

Awesome! We're not actively hiring but if you email jobs@hotseat.io with your resume and a short blurb about yourself, we'll keep you in mind when we start hiring. :)

Yay! Let us know at suggestions@hotseat.io.