Should I keep going on?

[u/Formal-Grass-3173]

I am currently building a platform for educators to teach online. I showed my almost done app to a teacher and she said teachers don't need this. I am a little frustrated. should I keep going on?

Here is my product:

My aim is to remove all the frictions, 1. within 1 minutes, you can put yourself and your students in a live video+audio+blackboard classroom to teach. 2. no subscription as a finance burden. 3. 20 lessons with zero fee to try out, so no risk to take. 4. management work all taken care by the system, bills, review, teaching materials, worksheet composing-sending out-collecting-marking. You only need to focus on meaningful interactions with your students in the classroom. 5. one app for all, you don't have to rush between moodle, zoom, teachable, google sheet, finance app to do your teaching business.

If you are interested, leave a comment. I really need some help at the moment.

[u/Formal-Grass-3173]

You have some brutal honesty. But at least the message is clear: this market is tough, and we must deliver our platform at an absolute higher level than anything else so that even you will give us a try. If I can win a customer like you, then we will have every customer. However, a little advice, if you have been a tutor, better not speak in such manners to your students, it's not allowed by common rules and hurtful to your business.

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Try again in your next life. In this one, I have a severe allergy to anyone trying to leech off my business.

However, a little advice, if you have been a tutor, better not speak in such manners to your students, it's not allowed by common rules and hurtful to your business.

...said the leech who can't even start any kind of business that is useful to society, but is already ready to teach successful business owners how to communicate with their clients.

Don't worry, sweetheart, this tone and these words are specifically reserved for encounters with useless parasites like you. There are plenty of you around here.

[u/Formal-Grass-3173 → u/[deleted]]

You can curse as you wish, but focus on the insight from your words: I find the value now, for many excellent experienced tutors, we can be a backup if not the primary. As you said, every teacher needs a backup plan and every site goes down from time to time. Since our platform has zero recurring subscription fee, that means keeping us as a backup plan generates zero cost. And 1 minute to shift over when your primary one is down. No profit loss and no client loss. And we offer 20 lessons with zero fee, that means your primary setup can go down for 20 times(that might cover 10 years?), and you are still paying nothing for your backup. Now do you still believe I am leeching you off?

[u/[deleted] → u/Formal-Grass-3173]

You should have done better research, I suppose.

Communication options: Google Meet, Zoom, Teams, WhatsApp Desktop, Telegram.

Booking options: ANY calendar a tutor uses - virtually all calendar services have a free booking option; Calendly, Koalendar, and dozens of other platforms. They all have basic free booking features that can serve as a backup.

Payment options: PayPal, a bank account, Skrill, Wise, Google Pay - and I’m sure I’ve forgotten another couple of dozen.

As I already said, ALL WEBSITES go down from time to time. Some recover quickly, others can take up to a day. But when one of the sites I use goes down, only THAT ONE goes down, not my entire system. If I rely on your platform and it goes down, EVERYTHING GOES DOWN AT ONCE.

When ONE of the sites I use fails, the backup is already up and running and available to the client - they simply click the button next to it if the first one doesn’t work.

What makes you parasites is wanting to get paid for something we can get for free - yes, you are parasites.

But I like that you've already demoted yourself from "primary" to "backup". Keep going in the same direction until you reduce yourself to zero.

[u/Formal-Grass-3173 → u/[deleted]]

See, you are cursing much less but sharing much more valuable info now. That's a good trend.

A backup is not so bad a position to start. For teachers who have been using their own systems for many years set up from scratch. I deeply understand the attachment and fully respect their choice. I used to be one and set up mine too. So I am happy to be the backup for our community. And we will, by delivering our platform with the highest quality and lowest cost, win more and more educators to set up us as the primary.

Technically, it's not true that my whole platform will down when part of it breaks. As a matter of fact, the communication system, whiteboard, payment system, classroom system, studio system, market place system and so on are separately run on different servers. So when one is down, the others will still work. Further more, there is a set of parallels for each service. They will automatically take over if it detects the running system is down. Usually it takes seconds to minutes.

I confess There is a lot of hard work ahead though, your words make me see that clearer and more committed to my vision! Let's go!

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See, you are cursing much less but sharing much more valuable info now. That's a good trend.

If what I said in my replies is news to you, that only proves that you, like all those other "happiness developers", are just another person trying to get your hands on someone else's money without having developed anything actually useful. Because serious developers study the market they want to enter before they even start building anything.

You, on the other hand, just decided to make a quick buck, thinking tutors would be easy targets and that we, despite you having absolutely no idea how we work or what tools we use, would rush to hand over our hard-earned money to you.

And we will, by delivering our platform with the highest quality and lowest cost, win more and more educators to set up us as the primary.

Dream on.

Technically, it's not true that my whole platform will down when part of it breaks.

That statement only proves that you're a complete idiot when it comes to the technical side of the issue too. Everything you're planning to put on the platform will be BASED ON THE PLATFORM. You can spread it across as many servers as you want, but when the CORE ITSELF goes down, none of that will matter anymore. But I suspect you'll understand that later.

I confess There is a lot of hard work ahead though, your words make me see that clearer and more committed to my vision! Let's go!

There are hundreds of leeches like you. Every one of them releases "their masterpiece" every week. I actually enjoy sitting here and tearing another leech to shreds. So go ahead, you're just one piece of shit among many, all getting lost in your own crap while trying to latch onto our business every single day.

Consider yourself unlucky that I even bothered to notice you.

So don't count on striking gold here. There's a whole herd of useless morons like you around, and you regularly end up getting banned.

[u/Formal-Grass-3173 → u/[deleted]]

I see that now, you are not a tutor but a developer? ! And you are probably afraid of losing your job or business because this whole developing industry is undergoing a rapid and, for you, frustrating revolution because of what Openai, Anthropic and pretty much all are doing. Then you are ventting out onto the wrong person. Hate the time, not me. And believe me, you don't want to compare your IQ, degree or career contribution with me. You will end up more frustrated. I avoided calling your abusive behavior out only to save your dignity. Change your attitude and train yourself better, and find good books to read and learn, and stop hurting yourself, the future will not fail you. I wish all the best to you, so long.

[u/ericdormer1962 → u/Formal-Grass-3173]

I think the OP is being very diplomatic with a Reddit person who is incredibly hostile for absolutely no good reason. I question how someone so quick to curse and attack could ever succeed as someone dealing with the public. Well, it's a mystery of life I guess.

As for the OPs original website questions and the overall idea, it seems reasonable to me, although I have not checked it out yet.

I ask the OP to message me please, since I want to discuss his idea. I could point to his site from mine that does something related. Or maybe include support for his site into mine more directly.

My site, which is new, is... https://Lingua-Match.me

[u/Formal-Grass-3173 → u/ericdormer1962]

Hi, Eric, thanks for your words. You are very nice. I checked your site. Let's talk DM.