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Savvy.is looks very promising! I already shared it with 3 friends who love to teach!
Question for @thinktankhero: Is there a screen share option too? Or it's face to face video only?
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@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.
Hi guys! I’m one of the Co-Founders of Savvy. I’m excited to share what we’ve been working on and get your feedback. Savvy is on mission to help people teach and learn from each other. We’ve built a platform for teachers and learners to connect, anywhere in the world, over live, one-to-one video.
We realized that often the best way to learn something is to learn it from someone else, one-on-one. Not only is it more effective, but one-on-one sessions let you learn exactly what you need to do something yourself (like play an instrument) or help you apply knowledge to your specific situation (like negotiate a raise with your boss). We wanted more people to have access to learning they could actually use, from the comfort of their home.
We also wanted more people who are experts at something to be able to teach and share what they love. We built a set of tools so teachers can easily manage their schedules, get booked, and get paid.
We’re super-excited to share Savvy with the PH community. We’re offering Product Hunt an exclusive 20% off your first session with the code PHFRIENDS. We’re here if you have any questions.
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@thinktankhero Love it Hamish! We're also putting a strong emphasis on what we are calling co-learning with LaunchableLabs.com. Would love to hear how you started this!
We're glad you love Savvy, @agreenwaldhq! We started thinking about this a little over a year ago. My cofounder, @techno, was looking for a Japanese teacher and couldn't find one. We started researching what it would be like to create a 1-on-1 learning platform by talking to companies, learners, and teachers. We kept meeting people who were amazing experts, who had maybe taught people 1-on-1 as a favor, but could never find a way to do more than that.
And then we thought, maybe the real business here is to create more teachers in the world. There are so many people who have knowledge and know-how that they could share — and that other people would benefit from — but who can't get or don't want traditional teaching gigs. Or teachers who just want to reach more people across the world.
So we quit our jobs and did the startup hustle and put together an amazing team and started building.
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@thinktankhero great concept I know couple contacts building similar platform. It is a huge space. So you charge both teacher and student or keep the % cut of fees ? No iPad or phone apps is it ? Or on phone too it can work using browser ? Connecting this with Zankura technology might be a great idea. Also integrating it with @karlmehta@edcast platform for education.
Thanks @aaspire for the kind words! Currently we're in beta, so we're not charging anything. Soon we will take a small percentage (15%) of the amount the teacher charges. We're a web app utilizing webRTC, so our profile and booking system works across all modern mobile and desktop browsers. Our live video chat works on everything except iOS, though we find that learners want to have their sessions at a desktop computer. And we're open to working with other education platforms — we find that many learners who start with content-based education want to build off of it with more personalized, 1-on-1 coaching.
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hi @thinktankhero out of curiosity do you use custom video player for streaming (open source) or 3rd party .
Looks very interesting @thinktankhero! Why do you guys offer a 1-on-1 experience vs a classroom experience? did you experiment before settling on this concept?
@lenndizzle We looked at a lot of different learning models, and we think classes are great. We focused on 1-on-1 learning because, particularly for adults, it is the most effective way for people to get know-how that they'll actually be able to apply to their lives.
Anytime a teacher creates content for more than one person, it has to become more generic and less interactive. That knowledge can be great, but often times learners still have questions, get stuck doing it themselves, or want to hone in on specific areas. That's where 1-on-1 is super easy and satisfying. In fact, many people who use Savvy for 1-on-1 learning started by looking at a content or class, and realized they needed something more tailored to them.
@faisalalkhalidi This is a great question. While there are uses for Savvy in the classroom, one of the things we're most excited about is making more types of learning available to students, so classrooms can focus on what they do best.
Right now, for most kids, classrooms are the only place they're asked to learn. While classes are good at a lot of things (group learning, sharing general knowledge that lots of people should have) they're also asked to do things where they don't best serve students — like help kids pursue a really specific interest, practice technique (i.e. for musical instruments or language), or just get help when they're stuck on something that other students aren't. What if in the future every kid had classroom time, plus a couple hours of 1-on-1 time with teachers who could be anywhere in the world?
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Love the idea. Congrats on the launch guys. Two questions: Is there any screening process for the teachers joining to make sure they are as qualified as they say they are? Also, how are payment's collected after lessons are completed (Paypal, etc)?
Thanks, @augustnoble! Teacher quality is really important, so we recruit teachers that have already been vetted by their communities, and look over before they show up in our browse pages. So teachers you find via Savvy have been screened. That being said, we also believe that more people in the world should be teaching, so we make it easy for anyone with expertise to create a Savvy storefront that they can promote themselves.
We manage payments using Stripe. A learner pays when they book, and the money is transferred to the teacher's bank account 24 hours after the session is over. This allows teachers to get paid if a learner cancels last minute (we have a 24 hour cancellation policy, which teachers love), and also gives us an opportunity to refund money if the learner isn't satisfied (hasn't happened yet.)
Wow, this is a terrific idea. Could you add a keyword search bar so that I won't have to click so many things/read the profiles of so many instructors in order to find a suitable person? Or are you saving that for later, when you have more instructors on the platform?
Thanks, @lindsayxlin! We're planning to add a search bar, but are in the process of doing a little research and some tests around the best way to match learners with the right teachers first. Specifically, we're looking at ways a teacher's profile can become smarter, more searchable, and more reflective of the goals they've helped learners achieve. We're actually in the midst of hustling to get these features up!
Are you going for quality or quantity in regards to services? For example in marketing category most offerings are kind of on higher end when comes to cost per minute. Some niche companies like Clarity.fm have proven track record of having top people who offer services. Do you expect people ( and what percentage)to pay that much at the begining while service providers still building reputation? Many companies were and still trying to get into this field. Remember Google Helpouts? Don't get me wrong. You have great product and you will get more and more great teachers to join in. So the only thing left is getting people to use it and then get value for their money. I see big investment in marketing in order to grow.
Hi @sambegic, thanks for the comment! Beyond just quality vs. quantity, our next big effort is working on matching the right teachers to the right learners. Price is definitely part of this, but we're also interested in who our users will learn best from. So, we're looking into things like matching learning and teaching styles, and enhancing teacher profiles with the goals they've successfully helped others achieve.
Some of our initial categories (like singing, guitar, and make-up) have teachers at all price points. We actually didn't anticipate the amount of interest in learning and teaching marketing, so we're working with teachers figure out how to best promote them, which could include initial discounts and some B2B pilots.
You're definitely right that this next stage is all about growth, marketing, and getting the word out! We learned a lot from talking to the folks at Helpouts and some other businesses. From those conversations we learned that we really need to create a product that's focused on creating connection and great learning moments, and on growth efforts that tap into the topics and communities that people are passionate about.
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