HYRE, top tutors at a third of the going rate

I co-founded HYRE and owned the product design and the front end. I designed every screen in Figma and built hyre.vn in Next.js, deployed on Vercel.

I wanted the price to be the first thing a family saw and the last thing they had to ask about. The pricing page has three plans, Navigator at $19 an hour, Explorer at $25 and Trailblazer at $30, each with a free 30 minute first lesson and a promise of no hidden fees.

Below the plans I put a comparison table against the options a family would actually weigh, other tutoring services and a private tutor. It compared price ranges, curriculums offered, English, tutor qualifications, support and whether pricing was transparent.

The plans were defined by who teaches you, not only by the hour. Navigator covers 10+ beginner subjects with tutors who scored a 6 or an A. Explorer opens 50+ subjects with tutors at a 7, A* or A+, adds two IB and IGCSE past paper reviews a week and round the clock support. Trailblazer opens all 120+ subjects with unlimited past paper reviews.

HYRE had three audiences and each needed a different first step. The hero leads with the student path and puts the mentor waitlist right beside it. Further down, three cards split the platform by audience, students and mentors accepting applications, organizations in a closed beta.

I specced the page in Figma with numbered annotations, then built it in Next.js. Images went through Next's image optimizer on Vercel.

The layout collapses to a single column on a phone, with both calls to action stacked under the headline.

Behind the marketing pages I designed the product mentors lived in. Sign in by email or a social account. A dashboard that greets you by name, walks a new mentor through setting up their account, and keeps their students and monthly income in view. The data sat in Supabase and Airtable.

One student put it this way on the homepage.

We launched on social, with posts that led with the two things every family should remember, transparent pricing and 120+ subjects across IB, IGCSE, AP and more.

The homepage also offered a weekly newsletter with a curated list of tutoring and internship opportunities. Internships were the same gap I had gone after with Swire.

HYRE ran until January 2024. It was where I owned the design and the code of the same product, from the annotated Figma spec to the page a family read. Being able to take a screen from idea to live page on my own is what I have kept building on since.

The 2022 site explained HYRE to families. In 2026 I redesigned it, built in Claude Code, as the product they would actually use each week. Same marketplace and the same promise. All content is placeholder.

The three screens share one state, so a choice on one shows up on the next.

Discovery comes first. Filter by curriculum, subject and budget, and every tutor card shows their exam scores.

Pick a tutor and their profile follows, with the lesson type, a day and a time slot. The first lesson is still on HYRE, carried over from the 2022 plans.

The booking lands on the student dashboard, sorted into upcoming sessions next to a mock exam trend, with tutors, messages and billing one click away.