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

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

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Post by colecut »

flemhans wrote: post #10
Azaan wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The statistics imply that younger kids driving is probably not a good idea.

https://aaafoundation.org/rates-motor-vehicle-crashes-injuri...

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

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Post by rlonn »

Seriously impressed that you produced this at 11. Like another commenter wrote I think we often underestimate kids but in this case I’m not saying it’s impressive that you built and launched something - I’m impressed with the polish here. You actually know what you’re doing, which is something many adult so-called professionals don’t!

To give you some business advice, I think you have a useful story to tell about being 11 and starting a business. You need exposure to get people on your platform. I’d try reaching out to people with a lot of visibility and the right contacts, tell them your story and ask for help. People working w education & people who just have a lot of followers.

Regardless of how it goes you’re right now getting invaluable experience of a kind that many people only start getting a decade later than you (at least) which means you’re setting yourself up for big success later on.

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

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Post by dumindaxsb »

Hi Azaan,

This is brilliantly done. You have a bright future ahead.

A few suggestions:

1. You could add anonymous(but verified) tutor ratings. This will enable children to find better tutors while tutors are encouraged to perform better to increase their ratings.

2. I think it's more user-friendly if you open internal pages within the same tab (e.g. the open section opened a new tab).

3. Also, I could think of many revenue models. Example: Commission on tuition fees (better to do once you're established), Premium accounts for tutors to host learning materials, On-Demand tuition classes, private sessions, etc.

Again, really well done. I wish you all the best!

Cheers!

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

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Post by Azaan »

pedalpete wrote: post #7

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 selec…

Thanks friend for your feedback and encouraging words. You have been very helpful :)

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

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Post by Azaan »

rlonn wrote: post #12

Seriously impressed that you produced this at 11. Like another commenter wrote I think we often underestimate kids but in this case I’m not saying it’s impressive that you built and launched something - I’m impressed with the polish here. You actually know what you’re doing, which is something many adult so-called professionals don’t! To give you some business advice, I think you have a useful story to tell about bei…

Thanks friend for your kind words. I appreciate your advice.

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

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Post by Azaan »

juliancox wrote: post #8

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.

Thanks for pointing this out friend.

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

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Post by Azaan »

dumindaxsb wrote: post #14

Hi Azaan, This is brilliantly done. You have a bright future ahead. A few suggestions: 1. You could add anonymous(but verified) tutor ratings. This will enable children to find better tutors while tutors are encouraged to perform better to increase their ratings. 2. I think it's more user-friendly if you open internal pages within the same tab (e.g. the open section opened a new tab). 3. Also, I could think of many r…

Thanks friend, you have made some great suggestions.

I am really amazed and thankful for the helpful advice and response of fellow hackers.

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