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Show HN: Sprout9 – a platform for students to find tutors

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I am aged 11 and founder of https://sprout9.net/ a platform for students to find great tutors.

Please forgive me if I get this wrong and post it incorrectly.

I would like fellow hackers to give me some constructive feedback on my MVP please. Ideas and suggestions as how I can improve my version 1.0 and how I can get the word out so I can help many students as possible.

Thanks alot! Azaan

Re: Show HN: Sprout9 – a platform for students to find tutors

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Hi Azaan,

My initial reaction was that this is really well done. Excellent work. It's clear and concise. I was wondering where you were from when I noticed that the tutor search was in so many different languages.

This makes it easy for me to end up with a result with no data, if you don't have a tutor with the language I need and the skills.

What I'd recommend is that the search operate as a filter. First they select the class, then you show what levels you have teachers registered for, then you filter that data to tutors you have the language for. If you don't have a tutor for the language, you can then request the user to sign-up to be notified, and you can start to build up the marketplace and understand where the supply and demand side limits are.

Or, alternatively, just focus on a smaller geographic area or language, and then expand as you grow.

Really excellent work. Dare I say, better than much of the other Show HN posts. :)

Also, see if you can update the Show HN label to include a bit more about your project or put "I'm 11 years old and built this tutor search", you may bet more interest that way.

Re: Show HN: Sprout9 – a platform for students to find tutors

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Hi Azaan, Congratulations on launching. It's a great looking site. Good luck with it.

On the about page (and maybe others) there are multiple ’ and – characters eg: child’s. It looks like these should be apostrophes and dashes. The often happens if you copy and paste from a word doc which uses the curly (high ascii) versions of apostrophes and mdashes. You can use &quote; and — to replace these.

Re: Show HN: Sprout9 – a platform for students to find tutors

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Just say that you're 11 a lot, that's your best selling point (;

Thanks friend. Not many people take a 11 year old seriously.

I remember thinking the same when I was 11, and promised myself to always take children seriously as an adult.

I've only grown more irresponsible and rowdy as I aged ;)

On a related note, I think many children are ready to drive cars much earlier than the current age limit.

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