Learning and careers decision
Porosheets
A competent developer can build a useful single-teacher replacement (week board, LLM generation, PDF export) in a multi-week project, but matching the product polish, content coverage, and reliability of the paid service is costly to reproduce and would lack the refinements teachers expect.
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$19.99/mo
$240/yr
Read off the official pricing page.
$100one-off115 h to build
$50/mo6 h/mo upkeep
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 3 seats.
No open-source build does this yet
Nothing published replaces this one, so a replacement starts from an empty file. Here is what it would have to cover.
What a replacement has to do
- Teacher picks a lesson on a week-board -> send prompt to an LLM to generate worksheet/quiz/slides -> save generated PDF and answer key to lesson card -> optionally transform to variants (support/advanced/translate) -> export/print/share link.
What it still won’t have
- Product polish and refined UX (tweaks, animations, accessibility)
- Prebuilt teacher-facing templates and content coverage tuning
- Ongoing prompt engineering and dataset-informed adjustments
- Reliability and multi-user scaling and SLA
- Integrated transforms (support/advanced/translate) tuned for pedagogy and QA
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
Keep paying
Paying is—cheaper in year one.
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 3 seats.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a single-tenant web app (React + TypeScript frontend, Node.js + Express backend, Postgres) that provides a week-board for one teacher: implement auth with email/password and Stripe subscription (3-day trial then monthly), a week-view UI with five weekday columns and lesson cards, lesson detail view to request generation of a worksheet/quiz/slides via an LLM API, server-side prompt assembly supporting variants (support/advanced/translate), generate PDFs from the returned text (html-to-pdf), store attachments in Postgres and serve shareable links, and simple logging and tests. Out of scope: multi-tenant org billing, advanced analytics, teacher collaboration features, and mobile native apps. Include input validation, error handling, unit and integration tests for core flows, and deployment scripts (Docker + one-click deploy to a managed host).
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- 2 cited sources+1
- Price verified on pricing page+3
- Evidence score56
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 2
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productPorosheets — Home / Pricing and product text
- official docsThis Week Board for Teachers — Features
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
