This is the next best way to explain your startup idea to investors and peers – you are an Uber for a specific industry. Well, it actually means that you are a an on demand marketplace where the customers and suppliers can meet and have a transaction over a specific set of services.
Becoming an Uber for tutors is a big opportunity to gain a fair share in the education industry for any startup or entrepreneur. The global education market is booming, with private universities like Harvard, Stanford and Wharton having endowment funds upwards of $20 billion. That said, these private universities and several other educational institutions can serve as brands but they cannot personalize education for their regular students. Additionally, there are many working professionals who can double up as tutors for extra money along with the professional tutors.
While there are several freelancing job marketplaces but the global market needs a more niche platform that can cater to the very specific needs of the tutoring market. For instance, verification of the tutors, relevant work experience, grade reports, net effect on the student’s academic scores etcetera – such features can only be available through a custom marketplace app platform development designed especially for this market.
Usually, you charge a commission from the service provider for listing them on your platform and that serves as your primary source of revenue. Above and beyond that, you can also have the following as your sources of revenue:
Buyer Commissions: You can charge buyers for premium services such as booking urgently or booking with certain guarantees in place. By bundling add on services like tutoring for a bunch of subjects or topics or niche subjects, you can charge users.
Brand Affiliations: There are several giants from the education industry who would like to partner with you. For instance – publishers, certification providers, private schools and colleges. You can partner with them and help them generate leads from your platform.
Tutor Training: For those who want to become tutors to generate extra income, you can establish a unique set of online-courses. This way, you can ensure the quality of tutors on your platform and also add a source of revenue for your business.
Advertisements: This is a more generic source and will work only once you have a good enough traffic on your app. Yet, it can add significantly to your revenues. With the help of Ad Sense by Google, you can easily put ads on your app.
App Users | App Users | Agency | Tutors | Admin |
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Basic Features | Splash Screen | Landing Screen | Splash Screen | Register / Sign Up screen |
Mobile Number Verification | Register / Sign Up | Login / Sign Up | Registration > Territory description | |
Home Screen | Login/ Signin | Dashboard | Search Customer | |
Search Results- Agencies, Tutors | Manage Tutors | Manage assignments | Manage Tutor detention | |
Agency/ Tutor Details | Booking requests | Contact Admin | Manage Tutor Categories | |
Book Tutor | Accept assignment | Start/ Stop trip | Review bookings | |
My Profile/ My bookings | Manage Tariff | Contact Carrier | Manage Booking | |
Push Notifications | Tutor Detention | Settings | Manage Tutor Agent Tracking | |
Calendar Management | Push Notifications | Student Profile Check | Manage Blocking | |
Teacher Calendar | Push notifications | |||
Manage Billing/ Invoice/ Reports | ||||
Cost of On demand marketplace like | CAD 20000 to CAD 40000 for both iOS + Android + Web Admin + Web Services |
App Users | Agency | Tutors | Admin | |
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Add-On Features of marketplace like Uber for Tutors | Mobile wallet integration | Dashboard Analytics | 3rd Party API integration for other on demand services | Manage Partnerships |
Group Chat | Group Chat | Group Chat | Support Chat | |
Reviews and Ratings for Tutors | Customer Analytics | Review and Ratings for Students | Google Analytics |
We are a team of expert app developers, product managers, business analysts and UI/UX developers with much needed experience in developing on demand marketplace platforms over the years. The list of resources you will need for development of marketplace like Uber for
Gauging the actual size of this global market might be preposterous, yet the scales can be imagined. With the right product in place you can fairly easily take on the generic freelancing apps.
Based on our initial assessment, developing and deploying an app like this typically takes around 20-25 weeks.
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