Hey everyone,
I'm Said Baouhmad, a solo developer, and I wanted to share the raw journey behind a platform I’ve been pouring my nights into building: IELTSRise.
The inspiration came from watching brilliant, hard-working international students constantly stall out at a flat Band 6.5 on their IELTS exam writing modules. Because high-end human tutoring is gated behind steep hourly fees ($30–$50+/hr), most students simply cannot afford the continuous feedback loop required to figure out what microscopic structural or grammatical errors official examiners are penalizing them for.
To solve this, I spent the last few months engineering an automated, instant evaluation engine. Instead of just guessing a vague score, the platform maps an essay across all 4 official assessment criteria quadrants independently, highlights precise vocabulary collocation gaps, logs grammatical errors, and generates a side-by-side Band 9 model rewrite for that exact prompt.
The Launch Day Challenge 🚀
