Zero to 4,000 Students on a Custom LMS

ClearIAS Academy was running a successful offline UPSC coaching institute in Jaipur. Post-2020, the demand for online learning exploded and they were losing students to larger platforms. They needed their own branded online platform — but had been quoted ₹8–12 lakhs by other agencies with 4–6 month timelines. They couldn't wait that long.

Core Pain Points:

• ✗Recorded video lectures with controlled access (no downloading, no sharing)
• ✗Live class integration with attendance tracking
• ✗Daily current affairs module with searchable archive
• ✗Mock test engine with auto-evaluation, timer, and analytics
• ✗Student progress tracking and study streak system
• ✗Batch management — different content access for different course batches
• ✗Mobile-first — 85% of their students were on Android

""We didn't want to be on someone else's platform. We wanted our brand, our content, our data. But no one could deliver in our budget and timeline — until Muffincode."

Muffincode designed and built a full-featured Learning Management System (LMS) from scratch — mobile-first, branded, and deployed on AWS for scale. We delivered the MVP in 6 weeks and have been adding features on retainer since.

• ✓Custom video player with DRM-lite protection — watermarked with student email
• ✓Zoom API integration for live classes with automatic attendance marking
• ✓Mock test engine — MCQ, fill-in-the-blank with auto-scoring and explanations
• ✓Performance analytics — score trends, subject-wise accuracy, percentile rank
• ✓Daily current affairs CMS — educators publish, students read and bookmark
• ✓Gamified study streaks, badges, and leaderboard
• ✓Batch and course management — content visibility controlled by enrollment
• ✓Razorpay payment integration — course purchase, EMI, and coupon codes
• ✓Push notifications via Firebase — class reminders, test alerts