Efficiency Tips

5 Ways to Find Students as a Private Tutor | A Zero-Cost Marketing Guide

Want to find students on your own without relying on a tutoring agency? Here are five ways to attract students with zero advertising costs, plus how to build a system that generates referrals naturally.

2026-03-26
Efficiency Tips

Free Estimate Template for Tutors | Present Your Private Tutoring Rates Like a Pro

When a parent asks "How much do you charge?", do you just send them a number over LINE? Simply providing a written estimate can dramatically boost parent trust. Free template available now.

2026-03-26
Comparison

Ditto Rebuilt a Town. Now It's Your Turn to "Transform" Student Management | Getting Started with Tutoring Automation

In "Poco a Pokémon," Ditto transformed to rebuild a town. Your spreadsheets need a transformation too. A comprehensive comparison of ways to automate student management for private tutors.

2026-03-25
Dev Story

Part 6: How a Tutor with Zero Programming Experience Built a SaaS with AI — The Tech Stack

GAS execution time limits. The speed barrier. The desire to "make it faster and more stable" is what drove the decision to migrate our entire tech stack.

2026-03-25
Efficiency Tips

Tax Season Is Over—Now Prepare for the New Semester! Why Private Tutors Should Automate Admin Work Now

If tax season left you thinking "next year will be different," now's the time to act. Get ahead of the new semester student rush by automating your attendance, invoicing, and reporting—all for just ¥500/month.

2026-03-24
Dev Story

[Part 5] How a Tutor with Zero Programming Experience Built a SaaS with AI — The Evolution

Stripe payments, LP creation, automated email delivery. Areas you'd normally hire specialized engineers and designers for — I built them all in tandem with AI.

2026-03-24
Efficiency Tips

All-in-One Tutoring Paperwork Solution | Contract, Invoice, Tuition Tracker & Lesson Report Templates [Free Download]

Four free templates: contract, invoice, tuition tracker, and lesson report. Edit in your browser and print directly. Say goodbye to the hassle of tutoring paperwork.

2026-03-24
Dev Story

Anthropic's New "Dispatch" Feature? I Built It on Discord Two Weeks Earlier.

Claude Dispatch lets you send instructions to AI from your phone. Nine days before the announcement, a solo developer had already built the same system with a Discord Bot.

2026-03-24
Development

ROCK PROTOCOL — A Custom Compression Protocol That Reduced 37,668 Characters to 245

"Compress then diff" vs. "diff then compress." That single change in order made the difference between 11,366 characters and 245.

2026-03-23
Comparison

Prepare for the New Semester Student Rush! 3 Ways to Streamline Admin Work for Independent Tutors

When new students pile up at the start of the semester, so does your paperwork. We did a thorough comparison of three approaches—manual work, RPA, and dedicated tools—to help independent tutors escape the "admin nightmare."

2026-03-23
Dev Story

How "We Can Make a Game, Right? lol" Led to a Custom Protocol in One Day

I casually said "We can make a game, right? lol" in the morning. By nightfall, I had a working custom compression protocol. Here's the full record of that day.

2026-03-23
Dev Story

Part 4: How a Tutor with Zero Programming Experience Built a SaaS with AI — The Birth of Kagemusha

At first, I built it just for myself. But the moment I realized "Wait — couldn't other people use this too?", everything started to change.

2026-03-23