I read one of the conclusion: "Lastly, I can't imagine that tech won't win here with non-human based teaching. It's affordable, convenient, and scalable to any genre, language, right from home on many platforms."
I strongly disagree with that one. The pie is big enough for different type of teaching, including real-life classes.
If what he predicts turn out true, and we all get plugged behind screens to learn new things... what a sad world it would be...
I realized there weren't really a platform making a good job for users when you are looking up classes (art & craft, languages, dance, etc.). You always end up visiting different website and having a hard time to compare the offering. Therefore, we launched classalog.org. First in San Francisco.
The app is using Next.js (good SEO for each page was important to us) + firebase for authentification, database and some serverless functions. Next.js is hosted on Zeit.
I'm passionate about this project because as we spend more and more time behind our screens, we also long real connections and taking in-person class is a good way to meet people. It also helps people who want to freelancer and become an instructor to find more clients.
Feel free to give it a try, and let your instructor friends now they can get more free visibility. It's far from perfect but let me know what you think as we'd appreciate helpful feedback.
That's interesting though: what's the alternative?
Each vertical has different dimensions that matters to people, and some could be objectively measured, without reviewers.
In my case, I'm building a community for any type of classes around you (e.g. dancing, yoga, acting classes, French, etc.) at https://classalog.org and when I asked users 'how do you choose a class' almost no one tell me "I want to see reviews" as their first answers. Pictures, and knowing the experience of the instructor is more important. I'm not certain reviews with its downsides would do more good than bad, and I'm really hesitant to implement that feature at the moment.