Varsity plug

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Inspiration

University provided tutoring in South Africa is hit or miss, with tutors being underpaid and having to do unrelated menial tasks, and students being unhappy with the quality of tutoring provided.

Private tutoring is unafforable and often overkill for most students Most alternative group tutoring platforms are not flexible in their prices, the courses they offer, their event locations, and aren't transparent about tutor performance.

Varsity Plug gives tutors the control to host lessons wherever they want and charge what they think they are worth, while having entirely transparent reviews for students That's when I had the idea to create a group tutor platform that would allow students to host their own tutor sessions.

What it does

The platform connects students who are knowledgeable in a particular subject with groups who need need assistance

How we built it

The project was built using sveltekit and supabase

Challenges we ran into

Time and coordination between teammates were the main challenges we ran into

Accomplishments that we're proud of

As this is our first Hackathon we are proud of submitting a reasonable project

What we learned

Learned how to use technologies such as Sveltekit and Supabase. Initally we we were going to pull data into Python using flask and connect this to SQLlite but changed this midway through as we thought using a tool like supabase would be more efficient. Time was a factor and we never managed to get the backend of our project up and running, however we learnt a lot about databases experimenting with different technologies and hope to get the backend up and running in the near future.

What's next for Varsity plug

We will be putting additional time and make the required changes to implement the backend fully using Supabase and thereafter launching the project in the South African university market.

Built With

• react-native
• supabse