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Private on-demand tutoring for high school kids. You help us build the infrastructure, our tutors teach the kids, the kids get better grades[1], relieve anxiety, and become better humans.
Here's how it works:
Imagine you're a high school kid and you can't do your homework. Take out your phone, snap a pic of the problem, and within 20 seconds a tutor will help you out via chat. You talk to the tutor for however long it takes[2], and by the end of the session you've learned how to solve those kinds of problems. Your life is now better.
Here's where you come in:
We need engineers to help us build the product. It's been just four of us so far and we need help. I've personally built large swathes of the infrastructure, primarily the tutor side, and I need your help. On the immediate, you can help me move the rest of our codebase from Backbone to React. We're halfway there :)
Another imminent project is rebuilding the messaging infrastructure, making student/tutor matching smarter, moving the backend to a microservice model. All the things you'd expect to do in a startup moving from small to bigger.
Why Yup:
We're not just a Silicon Valley startup trying to get big fast and loose. Our goal is to build a product that helps people, has sound unit economics, and generates real revenue, not just users. Our BD branch is finding ways to bring Yup to underprivileged youths whose families couldn't afford it on their own by selling it to schools.
I've worked with many startups before and, honestly, this is the only one that's made me feel really good about what I'm building every day.
If you have questions, I'm on twitter and here as Swizec. If you wanna join us, email the CEO - REDACTED_EMAIL
[1] we've had parents send us really nice emails saying their kid went from a D to a B+.
[2] some of our longest sessions so far have been north of 2 hours.
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