u/OMGitzLambo

My wife is a teacher, which means I haven't seen her on a Sunday since roughly 2019. She's up at the kitchen table every night doing prep, marking, planning, and muttering about laminating.

I'm a software engineer, so instead of being emotionally supportive like a normal husband, I built her a tool to take a chunk of that work off her plate.

It makes interactive web lessons customized for a student's interests that she can give to the students at school or send to parents for extra practice.

She has been primarily using it for this terms math goals for her students and it's been saving her HOURS of work each week. They are digging it as well!

It has an optional feature (since we are in Australia to link back to the Australian curriculum at the bottom of each lesson to show exactly which curriculum points are hit)

We have some example lessons from users on tbe main page :)

www.sproutlessons.com

Hey guys,

So I built a service for my wife who is a teacher, she started using it constantly, and a few other teachers at her school wanted it too. Did the logical thing and productized it.

Officially made it public a few days ago and I'm getting more traffic and users daily through reddit/Facebook and friends of friends of friends. (Only 1 paying customer so far)

It's a service for parents, tutors and educators so I was thinking of doing the "flyer route". Printing a bunch of panflets and dropping them in mailboxes around the neighborhood since parents are one of my target audiences.

Has anyone found success in this?

Personally most of the time when I get stuff like this in my mailbox I instantly bin it. But I was thinking if I put it in an envelope with our logo stamped on the back it might be enough to have people intrigued enough to open it and actually read it?

Thanks for reading this far, cheers!

My wife is a teacher, which means I haven't seen her on a Sunday since roughly 2019. She's up at the kitchen table every night doing prep, marking, planning, and muttering about laminating.

I'm a senior software engineer, so instead of being emotionally supportive like a normal husband, I built her a tool to take a chunk of that work off her plate.

It makes interactive web lessons customized for a student's interests that she can give to the students at school or send to parents for extra practice.

She liked it enough that she now refuses to teach without it, which I'm choosing to read as a five-star review.

So l've turned it into a proper web app, put it into production two days ago and have about 10 users and got my first paying user yesterday.

Example lessons from users:

Typing lesson

Grade 6 Math - Kid obsessed with fortnite