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🎯 Poll: Do you find our EdTech idea interesting❓

Hello Indie Hackers!

Could you please evaluate our EdTech idea/concept? Thank you!

We are finishing our MVP so we are at the pre-launch stage. We are bootstrapping it for over a year now (long before COVID-19).

The product
Our solution is a platform for online courses that allows instructors to conduct live classes based on professional desktop software in a web browser.

🎯 Website: https://teamsharq.com
🎯 2 min. MVP Tour: https://youtu.be/fSMV3ZeyvMQ

Problems we want to solve
👉Many expert courses require professional desktop software (eg. IDE, Adobe, AutoCAD etc.). Beginners do not have the hardware and software to participate in a course, advanced students do not have time to configure the course environment by their own.
👉During live online courses, instructors struggle to supervise and help students.
👉No tools to support the entire learning process in instructor-led courses (like Udemy or Pluralsight for video courses).

Market
👉Education>Online>Real-time instructor-led courses

Our niche
👉Courses based on desktop software

Unique Selling Points
👉 All platform features available directly from a web browser for the duration of the course, students do not have to install or configure anything.
👉 Instructor has full control over hardware and software configuration of each workspace and can easily replicate them.
👉 Students can freely switch between their workspaces and, almost like in Google Docs, work together at the same time. Workspaces are separated from their personal computers.

How it works?
1️⃣ An instructor chooses a subscription plan based on the maximum hardware configuration (e.g. 16 vCores, 32 GB RAM, 200 GB Disk Space) and then - how many workspaces snapshots she/he wants to keep.
2️⃣ An instructor sets up all course's details, uploads course materials, plans classes etc.
3️⃣ The last step is to assign a workspace snapshot / create a new workspace. During the new workspace configuration an instructor chooses the workspace hardware specs (up to a subscription plan) and installs required software (e.g. Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator etc.), then builds a snapshot and assigns it to the course. Every student has exactly the same course environment at the beginning of the course. No more “it doesn’t work for me”.

Who are we?
We have been operating on the IT training services market since 2017. This solution is created as a response to our experiences and needs.

Best regards,

on November 18, 2020