Savvy - 1-on-1 teaching and learning via live video

@chiwaili All a teacher needs to do is mark the times they're available right in their google calendar and Savvy will automatically update their profile. And, when you get booked, we automatically update your calendar with the session info (as well as sending you an email and reminders).

@thinktankhero That is very handy. thanks for the speedy reply

Hi @trgorczynski. In a nutshell, every teacher sets their own price. The learner pays that price, and Savvy takes a small cut of 15%. (And we're actually not taking any commission for teachers who sign up while we're still in our beta.) Most of the teachers we have are already teaching and have a good sense of what to charge, but we're also planning on developing tools to help newer teachers figure out the right price.

Thanks for the question, @alanmnichol. I think the main difference is that Savvy is a platform that makes every part of booking and having a 1-on-1 session easy. We tried to make it simple for a learner to book an actual time with a teacher and join a session in a few clicks, and for teachers to simply manage their schedule and get paid automatically. Preply seems to be more of a listing service that requires learners and teachers to send messages, share contact info, communicate to set up their logistics about when/where they'll meet, etc. Using that method, we found people will spend up to 20 minutes emailing to set up a 30 minute session. Also, Preply is mostly focused on language learning (which, by the way, is great for 1-on-1 learning), whereas Savvy teachers are across a variety of subject areas. Lastly, we also built Savvy so that teachers could use their Savvy page as their own personal storefront, and promote it wherever they want. That was important to us — while we make sure all teachers can be found and promoted via the Savvy website, it's also great if a teacher wants to use us as their own stand-alone website.

Thanks so much, @mengto! We aimed to make the times/prices very clear so it would be easy for someone to book a session — just a couple clicks vs emailing back and forth.

@batdelfuego @thinktankhero that's a great question! If I were teaching some of my mac productivity hacks i'd have to have screen sharing

I'm glad you asked, @batdelfuego and @planet5D (and thanks for sharing)! Yesterday we just launched the beta version of screenshare for Chrome! It's built into every video chat. We saw a lot of folks wanting to teach and learn computer-based skills (like SQL, salesforce, and other apps), so our amazing engineering team hustled to get this feature built, tested, and up.

@jacobtref Thanks Jacob!

Thanks, @porlando!