Apply HN: Tutorack – Find teachers and courses for everything you want to learn
We are developing an app to let you search and find tutors, institutes, online courses, videos, articles, books, etc. for anything you want to learn - from physics & deep learning to dance & guitar.
While similar services exist, they restrict users in what they can search for (only offline tutors or just online courses or just academic subjects) and are mostly listing based services where they charge tutors to list their names. We want to keep it free for the users, including people who list as a teacher, and earn through advertising, affiliate marketing.
We already have a working product at www.tutorack.com - however, it still needs a lot of data.
Ultimately, we want to create an ecosystem where its super simple for people to sign up and share their knowledge of niche areas. For eg. if you have specialized knowledge in battery technology, maybe you can sign up as a tutor and people interested in learning about this can get in touch with you. This is especially important for countries like India where affordable and accessible education is a big problem. Even with much more educational content being produced, effective discovery remains an unsolved problem.
Happy to answer questions and get feedback - thank you. One of the classic problems for tutoring [and other personal service] platforms is that transactions between tutors and students move off the platform in the economic interest of those two parties. How might Tutorack avoid that or mitigate its effect on monetization? We don't charge a commission or listing fees to the tutors or other resources being listed. We are more like a search engine instead of a platform where you transact. So, how the transaction takes place between student and teacher doesn't really matter. Infact, this is why we can provide other more relevant resources for learning apart from listing just teachers. if u make it an international site i can help you with hungarian language Thank you - really appreciate your offer for help. We do want it to be available globally. However, right now we dont really have enough data and resources to serve users across the globe. I'll probably ask for your help when we do expand globally. ok no worries, I offered my help because I know how hard to get the information, especially in nowdays and also the language cos in hungary we do not have that much free source to educate. Everything is in english language and in hungary the ppl do not speak english would say 80%
and here is an example,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKk4CSXEwZo
this lady was the manager of the hungarian hrmc it is so embarrassing - she asks for a interpreter when she realised she does not speaks a word