Scale arrives fast
A learning product can go from a classroom pilot to millions of users in a single school year. The architecture has to be ready before the growth hits.
EdTech
Learning products built to reach millions.
Education software succeeds when it scales fast, runs on every device, and keeps students engaged. Tarmac has done exactly that: we helped Flipgrid grow past a million downloads across 180 countries, with senior teams across web, mobile, and cloud.
The context
What makes EdTech different
Growth, reach, and engagement are the pressures we build for.
Every device, every classroom
Students and teachers use whatever hardware they have. Reaching them means reliable experiences across web, iOS, and Android, in very different conditions.
Engagement is the metric
In education, software only works if people actually use it. Design and performance are not polish, they are the difference between adoption and abandonment.
How Tarmac helps
One senior team from pilot to platform
Custom software development
Ruby on Rails, React, and native mobile, built to grow from pilot to global platform.
Product design (UX/UI)
Interfaces students and teachers love to use, which is what drives adoption.
DevOps & cloud
AWS infrastructure that stays fast and available as usage multiplies.
Data engineering & analytics
Engagement and learning-outcome data that guide what to build next.
Proof
Results in education
1M+
App downloads reached across 180 countries
180
Countries where students and teachers use the product
“Our Tarmac teammates are professional, highly-skilled, and passionate. The total package.”
Nate Edwards, VP of Engineering, Flipgrid
Questions, answered
EdTech development FAQ
Can you scale an EdTech product from pilot to millions of users?
Yes. We helped Flipgrid grow to more than a million downloads across 180 countries, on a stack of Ruby on Rails, React, and AWS. We architect for the growth curve education products tend to follow.
Do you build for web and mobile?
We do. Reaching students and teachers means reliable experiences across web, iOS, and Android. Our teams cover the full stack and native mobile in one integrated group.
How do you drive engagement and adoption?
Through design and performance. Our product designers and engineers work together so the experience is fast and genuinely enjoyable, which is what turns a rollout into daily use.
What did Flipgrid say about working with Tarmac?
Their VP of Engineering, Nate Edwards, put it this way: “Our Tarmac teammates are professional, highly-skilled, and passionate. The total package.”
Building the next great learning product?
Tell us who you’re teaching. We’ll bring a senior team that ships a product ready to scale from one classroom to the world.