Name: Office Hours
Brand: DEPLOYR
Price: 169 USD
Availability: PreOrder

Picture this

Who it is for

A retired engineer wants to mentor without platforms taking 30 percent. Office Hours streams USDC per minute during calls and issues attendance proofs both sides keep.

Two ways to own it

What you get

Base$169

$42 deposit to reserve

Booking page, video room embed, per-minute USDC metering, session proofs

You choose: chain
You choose: name and logo
You choose: accent color
You choose: rate

Customfrom $1,200

Built around you

Reshape it entirely: new features, your flows, your brand end to end, integrations you need. We scope it with you.

Everything in Base
Custom features and design
Priority build

Why it is new

What exists today, and what this does differently

Why own your own

Per-minute paid mentor calls with crypto payouts are live; the session attestation is a small addition.

Closest things out there

Kurobi (Solana) hosts paid video calls in USDC, MentorCalls and Mynameis charge per minute with crypto payouts, and SmartSync supports per-minute crypto billing.

Checked with web searches in October 2026. A search is not proof that nothing similar exists, and the market moves fast, so we recheck before every build.

What it unlocks

The human in it

Turns experience into a direct income stream.

The Regatta Board

Races it can enter

hackathon · Circle · upcoming

Arc / Circle developer programs and hackathons

unknown

Official page ↗

USDC payments; eligibility unknown

Their rule on existing code: unknown

grant · Circle · rolling

Circle Developer Grants

unknown

Official page ↗

Eligibility unknown

Their rule on existing code: unknown

What you own

The whole app, not a starter kit.

The complete Office Hours app: mentors teach in small live rooms, students pay per minute up to a cap they approve, mentors are paid the second the call ends, and both sides keep an attendance proof.

Base price · $169

The user app, complete

Every buyer gets the same finished app. Basic branding and copy changes come through a quick form.

Three step onboardingHome

Shown once: set a rate per minute, teach in a small room, paid the second it ends.

Tonight's room and next actionHome

Earnings, sessions, no shows on record, and the booked students with faces.

Booking page builderBooking

Topic, rate per minute, student cap, room size and free grace, with a live student preview.

Rooms up to 12 and custom domainBooking

Bigger rooms and branding are gated behind Studio.

Live room with heartbeat meterLive

Full session, early leaver and mentor no show; the meter runs only while both devices beat.

Instant per student settlementLive

Each student settles separately seconds after the call, never past their cap.

Weekly open benchLive

Recurring room with topic vote. Gated behind Studio.

Attendance proofs and payoutsProofs

Receipt per session with minutes, charge, payout and proof; no shows stay visible.

Series proofsProofs

One proof for a run of sessions. Gated behind Studio.

Plans, share card and settingsMe

Pricing from the owner paywall through the USDC checkout, the record share card, payout wallet.

Share card after a sessionLive

Minutes learned and seconds to payout, never a recording.

Open the full app demo

Add-on

Owner console

Your admin side: revenue, paywall editor, users, rules and the agent log.

Revenue and paywall editorRevenue

Session fees, subscriptions, USDC payments, payment methods, live fee, tier and gate editing.

RulesRules

Heartbeat interval, pause after silence, cap warning, network, refund on mentor no show.

Meter agent log and roadmapAgent

What the meter learned, running costs, and priced v2 and v3 builds.

Top-up

Growth and referrals

Referral and growth mechanics, switched on when you are ready to grow.

Growth loopsGrowth

Alumni evenings, shareable proofs, benches, open seats and mentor invites.

The money path, built in

How it earns for you

No monthly fee to start: the owner keeps a small share of each session. Studio mentors pay monthly for a lower share and more tools, and schools pay for many mentors under one brand.

Mentor5% per sessionBooking page, per minute rooms up to 6 seats, instant settlement and proofs. No monthly fee.

Studio$29 a month plus 3%Recurring benches, series proofs, custom domain and branding, rooms up to 12

School$199 a monthMany mentors under one brand, shared calendar, payout reports for accountants

Per session share set by the owner (default 5 percent free plan, 3 percent paid). Video costs about $0.004 per participant minute; settlement gas is about a cent.

Prices are yours to set. Illustrative, not a promise of income.

Growth loops, built in

How it spreads

Shareable attendance proofs for students and mentor records with no shows
Weekly benches that turn one-off calls into a habit
Students bring classmates into open seats
Alumni evenings where mentors invite former colleagues

Roadmap · build the next phase with us

Where it goes next

v1 included

The full mentor app

Booking page with rate, cap, room size and grace
Per minute rooms with two sided heartbeats
Per student settlement at call end
Attendance proofs and visible no shows
Plans and checkout

Included

Course mode

Multi week series with a syllabus
Homework hand in between sessions
Completion credential after a series
Group discounts for cohorts

Add-on from $500

Expert network

Public directory of mentors with proof records
Company sponsored learning budgets
Live translation captions
Mobile apps for students

Add-on from $1,100

For investors and grant reviewers

The pitch, ready

Teach live in small rooms where students pay per minute and you are paid the second the call ends.

Problem: Experienced people who want to mentor lose up to 30 percent to platforms, wait weeks for payouts, and students pay for whole hours they cannot use.

Solution: Per minute USDC metering backed by two sided heartbeats, a student approved cap, per student settlement at call end, and attendance proofs both sides keep.

Why now: Stablecoin settlement on Base costs a cent, embedded wallets remove onboarding friction, and WebRTC rooms are cheap to embed.

Market: Retired professionals, senior engineers and tutors who want direct income, and the students and schools who need them.

The ask: Pilot with 50 mentors from one professional alumni network and two engineering schools.

Funding is never guaranteed. Check each program's rules.

For hackathons and demo days

Your 2 minute demo

Home: meet Hector, a retired bridge engineer in Valparaiso.
Booking: set 80 cents a minute, a 45 minute cap, rooms of four, and publish the page.
Live: run Amara's session and see the payout land seconds after, with the share card.
Live: run Diego's early exit inside the grace, then the night Hector's power went out.
Proofs: show each receipt, the no show on record, and the gated series proof.
Owner Agent: read how a frozen tile and a failed batch became rules.
Owner Revenue: change the session fee and Studio price, and preview the Plans sheet.
Owner Growth and Roadmap: run an alumni evening, then request course mode.

Many hackathons require code written at the event. See the Regatta Boardfor each race's rule.

Make it entirely yours

Custom work from $1,200: your video provider, a school branded deployment, accounting exports, or calendar integrations. Scoped on a call.

Custom from $1,200

BLUEPRINT

Why it matters and how it really works

The need

Retired engineers, nurses, teachers and tradespeople have decades of know-how and students who want it, but tutoring platforms take a large cut, pay out monthly, and charge students for whole blocks of time they do not use.

What exists and what is new

This already exists in close forms: Kurobi on Solana hosts paid video calls settled in USDC, MentorCalls and Mynameis charge per minute with crypto payouts, and SmartSync supports per-minute crypto billing. What this adds is small: a heartbeat-verified meter, settlement seconds after the call, and an attendance proof (an EAS attestation) that both mentor and student keep. Research verdict: exists, low novelty. It is a well-made, ownable version of a known product, not a new category.

The data it runs on

Bookings, each student's approved cap, minute by minute heartbeats from both devices, settlement transactions, and one attendance attestation per session. Video and audio are never recorded or stored.

1.The mission

Anyone with hard-won experience can teach a small room tonight and be paid fairly, by the minute, the moment the call ends.

2.Why people can't resist it

Paid before you close the laptop Settlement lands seconds after the call, not at the end of the month.

Students pay only for minutes used A cap they approve up front, grace minutes at the start, and unused cap returned automatically.

Thursday bench A recurring small group room with a topic vote, a streak, and a series proof after four sessions.

3.How it works for real

Wallets: Privy embedded wallets on Base (or Circle's Arc network where the owner prefers it). Students can fund with a card through an onramp that settles in USDC.

Caps: Before a call, each student signs a USDC spending cap to a metering contract (Permit2 style allowance), so nothing is held by the mentor in advance.

Video room: An embedded WebRTC room from an existing provider (for example Daily or LiveKit). The app never records audio or video.

Meter: Both devices send a heartbeat every 15 seconds. A minute counts only when both are present; no heartbeat for 30 seconds pauses the meter.

Settlement: When the call ends, the contract pulls each student's billable minutes separately, pays the mentor minus a 5% fee, and leaves the rest of the cap untouched.

Attendance proofs: An EAS attestation on Base per session with mentor, student, minutes and topic hash. Both sides can show it; no-shows are recorded too.

Reminders: Email and push for bookings, an 80% cap warning during calls, and the weekly bench topic vote.

4.Cost per use and pricing

Per session: one settlement transaction per student and one attestation on Base, typically a cent or less combined. Video: roughly $0.004 per participant minute with common WebRTC providers, so about $0.50 for a 30 minute room of four. Example: 450 sessions a month averaging 30 minutes and two students costs roughly $60 to $120 in video, gas and hosting.

Mentor 5% per session

Booking page, per-minute rooms up to 6 seats, instant settlement and proofs. No monthly fee.

Studio $29 a month plus 3%

Recurring benches, series proofs, custom domain and branding, rooms up to 12.

School $199 a month

Many mentors under one brand, shared calendar, payout reports for accountants.

5.Growth loop

Every session leaves both people with a proof they can share: a student shows the hours they learned from a named expert, a mentor shows a record of sessions and no-shows. Benches turn one-off calls into a weekly habit, and students bring classmates into open seats.

6.Risks and guardrails

Billing disputes: Frozen video or dropped connections can bill wrongly. Guardrail: two-sided heartbeats, grace minutes and one-tap refunds within 48 hours.

Safety: Live calls can be misused, including with minors. Guardrail: age gate, report button in every room, mentor verification for paid listing.

Privacy: Calls are never recorded; attestations hold only hashes of topic and identities the user chose to link.

Payments and tax: Mentors are paid as individuals; the owner should check local rules on payments, tax reporting and sanctions screening, and stablecoin access in each country.

No-shows: A missed session releases caps automatically and stays on the mentor's public record.

7.Build order

Mentor booking page with rate, room size, cap and grace
Privy wallets and USDC caps on Base
Embedded video room with two-sided heartbeats
Per-student settlement at call end
EAS attendance proofs and no-show records
Weekly bench with topic vote and reminders

8.Where this is going

Now
One mentor, small paid rooms, paid by the minute the moment a call ends.
Next
Benches and series, so students build a visible record of who taught them what.
Later
Schools and guilds of retired experts sharing a brand, calendar and reputation.
The world it builds
Experience stops retiring with the person. Anyone can learn from someone who did the work, and the teacher is paid fairly for every minute.

Costs and tools are estimates at the time of writing. General information only, not legal or financial advice.

OWNER PLAYBOOK

Own it, then chart your voyage

Nine routes from one vessel. Tap a port to open its chart.

Why own Office Hours

Office Hours lets you teach and mentor in small rooms where students pay per minute in USDC and you are paid the moment the call ends. Mentoring platforms keep around 30 percent and own your student list; on your own Office Hours the rate, the students and every attendance proof are yours. Your experience becomes a direct income stream under your own name.

What’s stopping you?

“Nobody will pay to talk to me.”

Maybe not at first, and that is normal. Start with one narrow topic you have solved for yourself, like getting a first engineering job, and a low rate. Ten minutes at a dollar a minute is an easy yes for someone who is stuck.

“My students don't have crypto.”

Many will not. Send them a short guide to getting USDC on Base through a wallet with card top-up, and keep the first session short so the setup feels worth it. Over time, focus on audiences who already hold stablecoins.

“I can't code.”

You set a rate, connect your calendar and share a booking link. The video room, metering and payout are built in. DEPLOYR ships it configured.

“Is it really mine?”

Yes. Payments settle to your wallet and the session proofs are issued from your contract. You can move your students to any frontend later.

“Do I need to pay tax on this?”

Probably, like any income. Keep the session records Office Hours gives you and ask a local accountant how stablecoin income is treated where you live.

The million-dollar ladder

Office Hours earns from your own per-minute sessions first, then from group rooms where many students pay a lower rate at once, and finally from hosting other mentors on your platform for a small cut. This is a target to aim at, not a promise.

$300

$3,600

$12,000

$85,000

First 10 students

10 students booking one 30 minute session

$30 per session

Steady solo mentor

60 sessions a month

$60 per hour session

Group rooms

300 seats across weekly group rooms

$40 per seat

Mentor platform

170 mentors on your platform

$500 average monthly platform fee per mentor

Narrow your topic so you are the obvious person for one problem.
Add group rooms once solo sessions fill, so your hourly earnings rise without more hours.
Publish session proofs as social proof: real people, real hours, real outcomes.
Invite other mentors once you have a waiting list and take a small platform fee.

Illustrative stages, not a forecast. Results depend on you and the market; nothing here is guaranteed.