Substitute Tutor Finder.
An app idea for tutoring and coaching centers.

What the search found

Who pays

Coaching center owner pays a small monthly fee per center.

The problem

When a tutor does not show up, the center owner starts calling and messaging every tutor they know, often minutes before the class. Parents are already in the room and someone has to cover it now.

The gap

Red Rover, Frontline and Tyler Absence & Substitute all serve K-12 school districts in the US, with district contracts and admin workflows. None of them serve small private coaching centers that run on WhatsApp and need a tutor in the next hour.

Already out there

• Red Rover redroverk12.com

  Absence management and substitute placement for school districts. Sold to districts, not to small private centers.

• Frontline Absence & Substitute Management frontlinek12.com

  District level absence tracking and substitute sourcing. Heavy admin product, wrong buyer.

• Tyler Absence & Substitute platform.softwareone.com

  K-12 absence scheduling with automated notifications. Institutional, not for a two room coaching center.

People asking for it

• What happens when no one subs reddit.com

  Describes the scramble when no substitute is available and classes get split across other teachers.

The big assumption

That center owners will pay a monthly fee for something they currently do free in a WhatsApp group they already have.

Test it this week

Run one WhatsApp group for ten local centers for two weeks and manually match every absence yourself. Ask each owner at the end if they would pay to keep it.