Eduvek — Digital Education Marketplace

Eduvek is a digital education marketplace that brings courses, e-books, workshops, live tutoring, and multi-week group courses together under one curated brand. Rather than competing as a directory of thousands, it's built around a small, hand-picked group of instructors and tutors — each personally reviewed before being listed. Behind the storefront sits a full operational platform that handles the entire life of a lesson: booking, live video, confirmation, disputes, payouts, and refunds.

Marketplaces are deceptively complex — but a live-tutoring marketplace is harder still. Beyond payments, a content catalog, and an application pipeline, it has to answer the questions a real tutoring business faces every day: How does a student find the right teacher? What happens when a lesson doesn't go ahead? Who gets paid, how much, and when? How do you handle a no-show fairly to both sides? The goal was to build a genuinely complete, trustworthy platform — one that could take real students and pay real teachers — not a hollow shell.

I designed and developed the entire platform end to end. On the surface, it's a multilingual storefront with full Stripe and PayPal checkout and a tutoring-purchase flow where students buy lessons directly from a tutor's profile. Underneath, it's a complete tutoring operations system.

New students are placed by an automated online placement test rather than an unpaid live assessment — a deliberate design decision that means no instructor spends a paid lesson working out what a student already knows. The test sits inside the purchase flow, a student's result carries across every instructor teaching that subject, and a first purchase with any teacher is limited to a single lesson, so nobody commits to a block of hours before knowing the fit is right. Live video for the lessons themselves is built in and running. After each lesson, a two-sided confirmation system tracks whether it actually took place, with an automated resolution engine and an admin dispute queue backed by real attendance evidence for the rare cases that need a human decision.

Alongside one-to-one tutoring sits a complete group-course system. A course runs only once a minimum group has joined and every student has confirmed, and nobody is charged a cent before that point — so an instructor never teaches a course of two, and a student never pays for one that doesn't run. Multi-level courses are linked into a ladder, with a placement test routing each student to the right level; single-level courses skip placement entirely. The instructor sets the schedule once the group forms, missed sessions extend the course rather than being lost, and attendance is recorded from the instructor's own confirmed roster — which in turn drives completion certificates against a defined attendance threshold.

The financial layer is the heart of it: a per-teacher monthly earnings ledger, a fair no-show and cancellation model that splits costs cleanly between teacher and student without the platform absorbing losses, and a reconciled revenue view that separates what the business has truly earned from what it owes teachers and what it's holding for lessons not yet delivered. Students can cancel or reschedule in advance on their own, and teachers are paid through a safeguarded, auditable payout system.

All of it is run from an admin dashboard that turns an application into a live, listed teacher — reviewing, approving, publishing, resolving disputes, issuing payouts — without ever touching code.

Trust runs through the whole design. Students accept versioned terms at checkout with a signed, evidenced record, and reviews are collected on a rolling cycle, filtered for abuse and off-topic complaints, and moderated so a false review can be removed without dragging down an honest teacher's rating. Students and instructors transact entirely through the platform and never see each other's personal contact details — a line held consistently across booking, lessons, and live video. Every consequential action, from a suspension to a hidden review, is written to an append-only audit log. Authentication and account email run through the platform's own branded email system, so every confirmation and password reset reaches students reliably from the Eduvek domain rather than a generic sender.

Beyond the code, I built the business itself: I personally recruited, vetted, and onboarded the founding group of instructors across languages, business, academic, and wellness subjects, and led every function as a solo founder — product, engineering, design, marketing, and operations, from brand identity and SEO to legal agreements and go-to-market.