Libsac

What It Is

Libsac gathers contests, performances, talks and events, the kind of opportunity that is gone once you miss it, and shows them in deadline order. You narrow the list by interest and date, and the service sends you to the organizer's original page to check the entry conditions. It covers events in Korea, so it runs in Korean only.

The Problem

There are more opportunities than ever, but they are posted in more places. Contests live on contest sites, performances on ticketing and agency sites, talks on social media and community boards. People repeat the same search from scratch each time and find out about an opportunity they would have entered only after the deadline has passed.

Large portals supply volume but give a weak signal on whether you need to act now. Libsac uses urgency of the deadline as its yardstick instead of volume. The starting point was letting people choose across categories on the same screen, in the same order.

Who It Is For

• Students and job seekers who keep missing opportunities: people who want to track contests, extracurricular programs and seminars by deadline
• People looking for cultural events: people who want to scan performances, talks and local events on one calendar
• Organizers who want more reach: agencies, small groups and small shops that want to post their own event and get it in front of more people

Core Flow

1. Arrive: start from the closing-soon list on the home page or a category chip.
2. Narrow down: pick category, tag, status and sort order; the conditions stay in the URL so the list can be bookmarked or shared as is.
3. Check conditions: see the prize on the card, and the entry period, eligibility and fee on the detail page.
4. Go to the source: applications happen on the organizer's page. Libsac guides you up to that point.
5. Come back: new listings arrive every day and expired ones drop out, which gives a reason to reopen it every few days.

Key Features

• Deadline-first lists: D-day, closing-soon badges and the calendar view all come from the same data. Expired listings leave the default list.
• Condition summary: the prize, eligibility, entry fee and entry period written in the listing are pulled out into their own fields. Values that are not in the text are never made up; the field is simply left out.
• Match finder: describe your situation in a sentence and it picks suitable open listings. Signed-in users can use it up to 10 times a day.
• Feature articles: articles that help with entries, such as how to prepare for a contest, are all free.
• Listing submission: organizers post their own event and get three days near the top of the list.
• Embed widgets: lists of ongoing events, events closing soon and feature articles can be placed on other sites.
• Mailing list: pick the categories you care about and sign up for updates.

Product Decisions

• Say only what is known: if the prize or deadline cannot be read from the source, the field stays empty. Closing a listing that is still open by mistake is worse than leaving a closed one visible, so the logic leans cautious.
• The match finder only picks: the screen shows the chosen listings and their order. There is no fit score, and the reason lines come only from sentences written by hand in advance.
• Filters are shared through the URL: you should be able to send a friend "the list I found with these conditions" exactly as it is.
• Articles stay free: feature articles are the entrance that brings people in through search and sharing. Locking them would narrow that entrance.
• One kind of payment: Libsac does not use family credits and takes only listing submissions. A listing is published only after payment completes, which avoids taking money for something that never goes live.

Revenue Model

• Listing submission: a one-time payment of $10 per listing buys three days of featured placement, after which it returns to normal placement.
• Mailing list: the subscriber list, grouped by interest, is treated as the asset for selling sponsorships and ads later. For now it only collects sign-ups and promises no regular sending schedule.
• One ad slot: the notice shown once when leaving for an external site carries an ad slot.

Next Hypotheses

• Whether organizers buy the $10 featured listing again, and whether three days of placement turns into applications.
• Whether people who use the match finder reach the organizer's application page more often than people who pick from the list.
• Which categories gather the most mailing sign-ups, to decide where to sell sponsorships first.