
They didn’t take attendance, but what was in those lectures was on the test, so good notes were important. It was a huge, 500+ lecture in a big auditorium and it was at 7:45 in the morning.

When I was a Freshman in college, I had to take Western Civilization 101. Solomine hopes one of the Sharks will bite when he pitches his business in Shark Tank episode 1306.

You can learn more about Beulr on their website. He doesn’t recommend using his app if you are absolutely required to attend a meeting, but it’s a good way – especially when the transcription service is up and running. He’s also working on allowing people to record and transcribe their Zoom meetings and classes. Peter is working on adding a film loop of people sitting at their desks. The only problem (for now) is if you are required to turn your camera on for the meeting, it won’t work. Zoom then recognizes that person as present.īusiness people soon latched on to the idea and began using the app to get out of boring meetings.

Then, the Beulr bots act as you attending the meeting. It was originally designed to allow students to allow the app to log into any given Zoom meeting or class with the meeting ID and their personal Zoom ID. The Beulr App is a lot more hi-tech than anything Ferris utilized, but it essentially does the same thing. The name is a take off on the popular 1986 movie, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, in which the main character utilizes a variety of schemes to get out of school and have a bunch of adventures. Solomine, an economics and computer science major at Tulane, got right to work on his Beulr App and by the end of March, he had a functioning app. Business meeting were also conducted via the now hugely popular app.

When the world went on lockdown in March, 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, universities pivoted to providing class time via Zoom. Peter Solimine created his Beulr App so he could sleep through his early morning classes.
