ShowNxt
Co-op Impact Report
For six months you weren’t the co-op. You were me. The voice every family heard back from. The calls that filled the calendar. And by the end, the person building the product. Here is what that added up to.
From your first week, everything inbound ran through you. Parents, athletes, coaches. Nearly every reply a ShowNxt family got was written by you, under my name. The welcomes. The hard ones. The patient third follow-up that finally landed.
Someone had to build the pipeline by hand before ShowNxt could sell itself. That was you. Dialing coaches, sorting every new athlete, running outreach at 109 calls a day.
The part that matters most is not any single number. It is the trajectory. You started answering email. You ended writing the code.
Most people would have been buried by that. You did the opposite. You took problems off my plate instead of waiting for direction, taught yourself skills you had never touched, and kept ShowNxt moving. That is when the co-op became something else.
Straight from the sent folder. Every one of these went out under my name. Every one was you.
Thanks for the kind words, and no worries at all! We’re adding more West Coast schools every week, and in the meantime she can also use our Email Coaches feature.
My apologies for that oversight. I’ve removed Eva from our outreach.
Glad to hear Marin’s profile is all set up! Since she’s a 2029 there aren’t too many opportunities just yet, but coaches are constantly adding.
Sounds good. Let me know if you or Alexa have any questions when you get a chance to check out ShowNxt. Happy to help however we can!
In late March you moved into the codebase and stayed there. You taught yourself mobile development with Claude Code and shipped real infrastructure, not tweaks. This is what you actually put into ShowNxt.
Built our native iOS app from an empty project all the way to TestFlight and into App Store review. Real users, on real phones, because you built the whole shell.
Wired push straight through Apple’s APNs and cut OneSignal out entirely. New listings, feed activity, messages, and the weekly digest now reach athletes the moment they happen.
Fixed the things that only break on a real phone: listing photos, campus hero images, and feed video thumbnails, all routed correctly through the native layer.
Owned the living story feed end to end, on both the coach and athlete side, from the API routes down to the components.
Shipped a brand new user persona and the Email USL Coaches tool that comes with it. Your last feature, merged the day before your final day.
Push token storage and database migrations, Google Sign-in, onboarding fixes, pull to refresh, and the athlete profile editor. The unglamorous parts that hold it all up.
Your official Northeastern co-op evaluation, filed July 1. Nothing below the top of the scale.
“Nicole’s growth over the course of her co-op was honestly one of the most impressive I’ve seen. Watching her go from making cold calls to independently building and submitting our mobile app to the App Store was one of the most rewarding parts of this experience.”
“She has a rare ability to learn incredibly fast and isn’t afraid to tackle problems well outside her comfort zone. Those qualities are difficult to teach and are exactly what make exceptional startup operators.”
From your final co-op evaluation.You came on to help with outreach. You are leaving having answered for me thousands of times, made more than a thousand calls, built the systems we still run on, and shipped a product and an app with your own hands.
Almost none of it had your name on it. It had mine. So here it is with the right name on it. Every number on this page is you.
Thank you for six months of the hard, unglamorous, essential work. ShowNxt looks the way it does because you were here.