đź’ˇ SaaS Idea: SeatSmith

Constraint-based classroom seating planner: auto-generates seating charts from teacher-defined constraints (IEPs, talkative pairs, visibility needs), with attendance, behavior notes, and SIS export. Works on any device.

Platform: web

Why it's a good idea?

1. Problem & market

Teachers need to build (and regularly rebuild) seating charts that respect all kinds of classroom constraints (IEPs, visibility issues, behaviour conflicts, talkative pairs, etc.) and then keep those charts in sync with attendance / behaviour notes and the school’s SIS.
Reddit, HN and teacher-centric Facebook groups are full of posts asking for better tooling (e.g. r/Teachers thread “Best Seating Chart Program” and the OP’s own reference thread with >250 up-votes).

2. Keyword demand (monthly searches, difficulty)

Keyword Volume Difficulty
seating plan template 4 400 3
classroom seating chart 1 600 1
classroom seating chart maker 720 0
seating plan generator free 1 000 20
random seating chart generator 480 0
All core terms are well above the 500-search threshold, and every difficulty score retrieved was <30 – in fact, most are single digits.

3. Competitive landscape

Top dedicated products (all paid, validating willingness to pay):

  • MegaSeatingPlan (seatingplan.com) – AI placement, SIS sync, behaviour logging, ÂŁ/year per teacher & whole-school licences.
  • SeatingCh...
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