Tuvisr

Inspiration

From first-hand experience in tutoring younger students, my team members and I were bounded together by the idea of making college-level education more accessible to unprivileged people unable to afford college costs. We wanted to create a more decentralized higher educational mobile app that could be easily used by users.

What it does

Tuvisr allows learners from any background and college tutors to connect through a chat function built into the app to negotiate prices, topics, and other concerns. They can either choose to have 1:1 in-person meeting or online synchronous meetings.

How we built it

After planning out our initial revenue streams, market size, and basic framework, our designer Kelsey Park prototyped Tuvisr through Framer.

Challenges we ran into

One challenge we encountered in the beginning phase of our project was deciding between a source of revenue--whether we wanted to earn profit through banner ads or through taking a percentage of the proceeds earned by tutors. We realized that banner ads were "spammy" as discouraged by a mentor we had the honor of consulting, but we also felt that taking profit cuts defeated the whole idea of empowering college students to mitigate their tuition. In the end, we decided on a newly brainstormed stream of revenue: hyper-targeted B2B ads, in which companies can advertise on our platform for job and internship opportunities, allowing firms to hyper-target both tutors and learners in relevant subject areas to the job openings.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Looking back at the final result, my team members and I were proud of the user-friendly appearance of our prototype, which was created in an extremely short amount of time within a day. We were also very content to reflect back on how we came to an agreement about the means of payment: our platform not only gives freedom for learners and tutors to negotiate on prices, but also the freedom to choose between different kinds of online payment or cash.

What we learned

Aside from technical skills, such as learning to design mock-ups through Framer and using hexadecimal colors to create visually appealing aesthetics, a greater takeaway from this Hackathon was our development of interpersonal skills, specifically that of resolving inter-team conflicts and disagreements. We learned that debate was constructive to the healthy development of a project, and therefore should be fostered; once a certain concept was debated, we ended up brainstorming and pivoting our project to address the concerns of teammates, which I believe is a skill that ensures lifelong value.

What's next for Tuvisr

If our platform gains traction in local campuses, we aim to expand our platform to different campuses. We hope to expand our app and gain a continuous flow of consumers to ameliorate the effects of income inequality and educational disparity in the United States.

Built With

• framer
• framework