LearnBuddy was created by Yap Chin Wei, a Singapore-based Senior Software Engineer and parent. He founded LearnBuddy to give every Singapore family access to high-quality, MOE-aligned tutoring — not just those who can afford private tuition.
Who is Yap Chin Wei?
Yap Chin Wei is a software engineer based in Singapore with over a decade of professional experience in mobile and web development. As a parent of school-age children, he saw first-hand how expensive and uneven private tuition can be — and decided to build something better.
He is the founder and engineer behind LearnBuddy, where he designs and builds the entire platform end to end.
What he built
Yap Chin Wei built LearnBuddy as a full-stack platform:
- A real-time AI voice tutor that talks students through Math, Science, English and Mother Tongue problems, powered by Google Gemini Live.
- An interactive teaching whiteboard the tutor draws on live — bar models, equations, number lines, fraction models, Chinese character animations and more.
- A curriculum-aligned practice library of quizzes and past-year papers mapped to the Singapore MOE Primary 1–6 syllabus.
Under the hood, LearnBuddy is a Flutter web app with a FastAPI (Python) backend, Google Gemini for the AI, and Supabase for authentication and data — all designed and built by Chin Wei.
Why LearnBuddy exists
Every practice question, article and lesson on LearnBuddy is aligned to the Singapore MOE primary syllabus and reviewed for accuracy before it is published. The goal is simple: make patient, syllabus-aligned help available to any child, at any time, at a price every family can afford.
You can read more about the person and principles behind the platform on the About LearnBuddy page, or try LearnBuddy free to see the AI tutor in action.