Inspiration
Millions of people who used to run traditional offline classes - ballet, music, CrossFit - during the pandemic lost their jobs. Their clients fill lonely and depressed because they miss their hobbies, coaches, tutors. Parents are looking for new ways to keep their kids busy.
What it does
Provides simple toolset to run classes online - video streaming, scheduling, payment processing. When we finally defeat COVID-19 and our lives are back to normal (with some adjustments), online classes can easily be moved offline. Our platform supports both!
How we built it
Voopty used to be a business management solution for offline studios(art, fitness, language learning) demo. When the pandemic started we helped our users adjust to new reality quickly
Challenges we ran into
Building software that manages the education-related process is much harder than we thought at first!
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Well before the quarantine Voopty's advice saved from bankruptcy several schools by optimizing their costs and attracting new clients, for example, an English school for kids couldn’t afford to pay rent anymore. So we connected the owner with another business customer of Voopty (acting classes) who sub rented one classroom from the English school. Both are extremely happy now (they save a fortune on rent!) and kids can visit English and acting classes in the same building.
Hogwarts is giving online classes with Voopty https://www.voopty.com/studio/hogwarts Feel free to sign up!
What we learned
People who run classes usually know very little about how to run a business(let along an online business). They are just good at sport, yoga, Spanish, etc. and love working with people. So apart from CRM, we provide our customers with consultancy and community. Something like “accelerator” for class givers :)
What's next for Voopty
Online classes are implemented in a “hacky” way with the existing solution (Skype/Zoom + Google Docs). We are going to implement integrations with the best remote tools. Here is an online ballet class from one of our business customers So cute ❤️
Far before the quarantine, (and even more during the quarantine) majority of fitness/dance/art/music/kids studios use their FB/Instagram pages as the main marketing tool and communication channel. People make a desition on joining a studio based on who else from their friends follows the profile or tagged there. But sign up for a class via FB/Instagram is very hacky, free text messages are often lost or hard to read. We would be happy to integrate more advanced widgets to check a schedule and sign up for a class.
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