TutorBase is a web-application that connects campus students to campus tutors. TutorBase's search functionality allows students to find tutors based on their desired subject, course and price range in under five steps. Think UpWork but for tutors.

Our value is two fold: we provide tutors a business management tool that gives them a custom profile to market themselves to clients, visualize data metrics and change their weekly schedule times easily.

Tools: MERN Stack, Git/Github, npm, Agile

A college student has got to pay their loans somewhere - what better way to do it then teach others how to get an A in a course you just took! At first, I thought finding clients would be difficult because of the amount of academic resources RPI provides i.e. office hours w/ TA's. But a few paper adverisements and pieces of duct-tape later, I've got my first client! Sweet! My first client's session ends up going well so naturally I have to ask:

"Why did you look to private tutoring for help?"

"The office hours we're so crowded - I'm there for 2 hours and only get 10 minutes of help."

And there behold was the problem - there's people who need help and not enough people to help them.

After that conversation, I knew personal connections and duct-taped advertisements weren't a long-term solution to finding clients. And after learning of the issue of the lack of supply of TA's and Tutors, I wondered if there was a way to connect (soon-to-be) tutors and clients in need. Afterall, most TA's qualifications had was that they recived an A/A- in the course.

What if we connected clients with students who recieved an A/A- in the course? There isn't a lack of supply of theses available students and what broke college student is going to say no to giving Calculus I for $30/h?

With this idea in mind, I talked to my CS buddy who was also a tutor. Given our background, we naturally gravitated towards a web-app based, software solution. And thus TutorBase was born!

In the beginning of May, we pitched our idea to our department's Open Source development group and created a team to help develop our MVP and bring our idea to life.

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