How it all started
Chaptercore was started sometime in 2006, shortly after I (Jay Strybis) joined Sigma Phi Epsilon at Valparaiso University.
My chapter had a website, but it was severely out of date and didn’t really meet my own personal design expectations. With roughly 6 years of design and development experience, I thought this was a great way to start contributing to the chapter in a meaningful way. I took over the website, eventually became the VP of Communications (which I was terrible at, in retrospect), and continued to spend way too much time tweaking things and adding new features.
Brothers could eventually login, view news for members-only, post status updates (think Twitter), send private messages and use the private message forums. There was a problem though: I was the only one who could update the website. With graduation looming, I built out a control panel for other brothers to use and eventually generalized the system in early 2008 for other chapters to use.
Chaptercore continues to grow in customers and features, but the goal is and has always been this: to provide professional, affordable websites to fraternities and sororities that become a vital communication tool for the chapter.
Timeline
- 2006
- New website for Valpo SigEps
- 2007
- Members-only features created
- 2008
- Chaptercore launched
- 2010
- Chaptercore 2.0 launched
The Team
Jay Strybis
Founder, Designer, Developer, Insomniac
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