An instrument for spotting the next edtech opportunity — generated ideas, each traced to the real-world signals behind it.
Tutor.tax (signal 54) just publicly surfaced this opacity problem and got HN traction. Peer-to-peer tutoring alternatives like schoolhouse.world (signal 50) are gaining attention as fee-free options. The combination signals consumer awareness of marketplace extraction is peaking.
Individual tutors and students lack price transparency about how much tutoring marketplaces (Wyzant, Varsity Tutors, Tutor.com, etc.) take in fees — leading tutors to under-earn and students to overpay for the same instruction.
Independent tutors (especially college students, career-changers, and subject matter experts) looking to maximize take-home pay, and cost-conscious families comparing tutoring options.
A comparison and routing platform that shows real net pay to tutors and real cost to students across every major tutoring marketplace, then recommends the optimal platform for a given subject/location/frequency combination. Generates revenue via lead referral fees from platforms and a premium tutor profile that appears across marketplaces simultaneously.
The real-world evidence the pipeline drew on to generate this idea.
Article URL: https://tutor.tax Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43311666 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://schoolhouse.world Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42163958 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Hi HN. My name is Jurgen. I'm the Co-Founder and CTO of amy.app About one year ago we couldn't secure any more funding and had to shut down the company after 7 years. During that time, our content team generated about 25000 math exercises. Each exercise has a step by step solution. Furthermore for each step it includes pedagogically valuable mistakes students might make. Given that content is pedagogically sound and human curated it might be useful to someone. It could be used for things like AI training (after all it resembles a chat) or for creating individual math exercise to print them on paper. If anyone has some pointers I would love to hear them - Here is a content explorer: https://curriculum.amy.app/ToM (this does not includes the mistakes part) - That's the landing page: https://www.amy.app (you can try it by click the demo button) - This is an SAT specific version: https://sat.amy.app Please find my contacts in my HN profile. Thanks again! Comments URL: https://news.ycombina
Hey everyone! I know this forum is 'notorious' for having more experienced and skilled coders but if I figured this might be relevant for some of you: Coding The Future is a program where we match people who are passionate about computer science to teach students interested in learning. If this sounds like an opportunity that you'd like to participate in please fill out this form so we can best match you with a tutee. Tutoring sessions will be 30 minutes weekly virtually. All tutoring is done for free, so if you are interested in becoming a tutor you will get community service. We provide tutors with the resources to be an effective teacher, and regularly check in with our tutors and tutees to make sure the process is going smoothly. Please note that dedicated tutors may be offered leadership roles, and if you are interested in taking on more leadership within the program, for example becoming a local director of programming or curriculum developer, please let us know. You can also mai
Hey everyone! I know this forum is 'notorious' for having more experienced and skilled coders but if I figured this might be relevant for some of you: Coding The Future is a program where we match people who are passionate about computer science to teach students interested in learning. If this sounds like an opportunity that you'd like to participate in please fill out this form so we can best match you with a tutee. Tutoring sessions will be 30 minutes weekly virtually. All tutoring is done for free, so if you are interested in becoming a tutor you will get community service. We provide tutors with the resources to be an effective teacher, and regularly check in with our tutors and tutees to make sure the process is going smoothly. Please note that dedicated tutors may be offered leadership roles, and if you are interested in taking on more leadership within the program, for example becoming a local director of programming or curriculum developer, please let us know. You can also mai
Article URL: https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/eriks-plea-in-the-free-press-bring Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45104556 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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