We have now more than 13,000 users, and more than 90% of these are teachers. We have identified a need to make the ordering process easier and quicker for students, since it is very difficult for a teacher to “sell” his or her services to a student who has never had a lesson with the teacher.
As a result, we are adding a quick $1 booking feature for students, that will permit the first teacher who is online to accept the teaching request. The process is modeled on ride sharing apps, with a student being the customer who calls the driver and all nearby drivers (in our case teachers) who are online will get a notification that a student wants to do a lesson. The first teacher to accept will get the lesson booked immediately.
Thanks for everyone’s support. This app is a real challenge, both for our developers and for the rest of us to figure out what processes work.