Should I bet on online education? Is this a good option?
Tutoring sites are extremely popular. There are many, and from what I've read, if there's a lot of em' then I can possibly skip the validation stage? But should I? I want to create a tutoring platform for something that's basically non-existent in my part of the world yet in countries like the UK and the US it's not something that's new or possibly exciting.
I always wanted to improve the state of online learning or at least to streamline the process. I was working on a LMS software which I thought I would've pitched to the government but I gave up on that last year.
Now there's an obvious need for tech to streamline the learning process as a result of the pandemic, so my question is, do you see something like a tutoring platform as something that can be useful in a place where it's not really the norm? My bet is that education market is huge and success would be independent of geographic location especially given that there's virtually no other competitor, and I'm bound to provide value to those who never considered online tutoring as a way to earn money during the pandemic and to provide as much value as I can in the process.
Online education is a massive space. Tutoring is too.
I have no idea where you are in the world, but regardless I think you need to think carefully about the niche you want to serve. Start small. If you are keen on tutoring, for example, is there a specific topic/theme/profession that you could focus on?
Thanks for the advice. I agree, online education is a huge space. I have since restarted and redesigned my old project. The idea was to provide a system, inspired by a lack thereof in my country, similar to what google classroom is but with advanced grading tools and data management. The idea is to make it easy for teachers to analyze (with graphs and summary statistics) their classroom and get a general overview of how well their students are performing. I want it to remain as simple as possible and allow teachers to opt-in and out for certain features.