LearnYourWay

LearnYourWay is a marketplace for private tutoring. Students find a tutor, book a free trial, buy a package of lessons, and meet online or in person. The platform handles payments, scheduling, the classroom, and what happens when plans change.

It's a SvelteKit app backed by a FastAPI and PostgreSQL API. Stripe takes the payments and 100ms runs the live video classroom and whiteboard. There are separate spaces for students, tutors, and admins, and the interface is translated with Paraglide. I was on the project for a year, from early prototype to running product, and wrote more of its commits than anyone else on the team. My work covered the frontend and the API: registration, booking, orders, sessions, and money.

Becoming a tutor

Tutors apply through a five-step wizard: personal details, teaching background, a criminal-record declaration, their online and in-person rates, and supporting documents. The application also includes an intro video. Admins review each application, and the tutor gets a notification whether it's approved or rejected. Once approved, a tutor creates services: a subject, a lesson length, an intro video, and whether it's taught online, in person, or both. Students search those with filters for subject, language, availability, area, and format. Every time a service is viewed, an impression is recorded, so tutors can see how many people looked at their listing over a chosen period.

From trial to order

I built the booking modal and the trial-lesson flow. A student picks a format, chooses times from the tutor's availability on a calendar, and either asks for a free trial or pays for a set of sessions through Stripe Checkout. The price depends on the format: the tutor's online rate, in-person rate, or a mix of the two. Getting that right took a few attempts, including one bug where Stripe charged a different amount from the one shown. A paid order becomes a group of scheduled sessions that both people see on their calendars, and each session opens a 100ms room with a shared whiteboard when it's time.

When plans change

The part I'm proudest of is order resolution, meaning what happens when someone wants to reschedule, cancel, or get a refund. Either side can open a request for some or all of an order's sessions, and the other side approves or rejects it, with a notification at each step. What it costs depends on how much notice was given. More than 48 hours before a session, a reschedule is free and a cancellation is fully refunded. Between 24 and 48 hours, each costs half the session. Inside 24 hours, a reschedule costs a full session and a cancellation isn't refunded. The fee is worked out from the tutor's actual rate for that session's format, and a rejected order can give the student a free session as an apology. All of this logic sits in one place on the server, so the screens just show what it decided.

Getting tutors paid

On the money side I built payouts. Tutors add bank details. The system adds up what each tutor has earned from completed orders, subtracts what has already been paid out, and puts anyone with a balance on a list of payout candidates for an admin to settle. Tutors get an earnings view, and both sides can see a transaction history.