SaaSFull-stack2025

SkillSync

A full-featured tutor marketplace with role-based dashboards.

Role

Full-stack Developer

Duration

5 weeks

Year

2025

4 roles

Auth levels

Full

Booking system

The Problem

Finding a tutor in Bangladesh is still largely an offline process - word of mouth, notice boards, Facebook groups. Students have no way to filter by subject, verify credentials, read reviews, or book a session in one place.

Tutors have no platform to manage their availability, track their sessions, or build a verified profile that follows them across clients.

SkillSync was built to solve both sides of that problem.

What I Built

A full-featured tutor marketplace - four distinct user roles, each with their own purpose-built experience. Students discover and book tutors. Tutors manage their availability and sessions. Administrators oversee the platform. All secured with role-based access control at every layer.

Selected Screens

A multi-role product that still feels coherent

The marketplace had to make public discovery, student booking, tutor management, and admin control feel like parts of the same product instead of disconnected dashboard fragments.

SkillSync landing page — Landing experience with tutor discovery and CTA sections.

SkillSync tutor discovery screen — Tutor discovery flow with filters and category-based search.

SkillSync role-based dashboard — Role-based dashboards for student, tutor, and admin actions.

SkillSync booking workflow — Booking and session management workflows across dashboards.

SkillSync product screen — Additional screen showing the end-to-end product experience.

Four role-based experiences

Public - tutor discovery, search, filtering by subject and category, tutor profiles
Student - booking flow, session history, review submission, cancellation management
Tutor - availability management, session tracking, earnings overview, profile editing
Admin - platform oversight, user management, analytics dashboard

Booking and session workflows

A complete booking system - students request sessions, tutors confirm, both parties manage changes. Cancellation, completion, and review flows are all handled with role-aware permissions. No action available to a role that shouldn't have it.

Authentication with Better Auth

Session-based authentication using Better Auth - a modern, type-safe auth library. Server-side role guards protect every route. Same-origin API proxy routes handle auth cookies without CORS issues.

Search and discovery

Category-based filtering, subject search, and tutor profile cards with ratings and session counts. Students can find the right tutor in seconds.

Key Decisions

Same-origin API proxy. Rather than a separate backend URL, all API calls go through Next.js route handlers. This keeps auth cookies working correctly and eliminates CORS complexity entirely.

Better Auth over custom JWT. Rolling custom authentication is a maintenance burden. Better Auth provides a production-ready, type-safe session system that integrates cleanly with Next.js App Router.

Prisma schema as the single source of truth. One schema file defines users, roles, tutors, students, sessions, bookings, and reviews. Everything downstream - queries, types, validations - derives from it.

The Result

SkillSync demonstrates the full range of full-stack capability - complex auth, multi-role data access, transactional workflows, and a polished consumer-facing UI.

The four-role architecture in particular is a pattern that scales to almost any marketplace or platform product.

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