Founding Cohort · Closes June 1, 2026
The Philippines has the most musical population in Asia.
And the worst paid music teachers.
Himig is the first teacher platform built in Manila, priced in pesos, with zero commission on the lessons you teach. Fifty founding teachers will set the standard. After that, the founding badge is closed.
Founder reviews every application personally · Reply within five days · No card required
The math nobody talks about
Teach ₱20,000 worth of lessons. Keep this much.
Outschool
₱14,000
Commission: 30%
Plus their algorithm decides who finds you.
TakeLessons
₱15,000
Commission: 25%
And the relationship is theirs, not yours.
Lessonface
₱17,000
Commission: 15%
Plus payment processing on top.
Himig
₱20,000
Commission: 0%
Flat subscription. Your students. Your relationship. Forever.
Commission rates current as of May 2026 from each platform’s public docs. Math assumes a single ₱20,000 month of lesson revenue.
The platform built for you, not against you
You teach. We handle the platform.
That’s the entire arrangement.
Subscription model, not commission. You pay a flat monthly rate. Every peso your students pay for lessons goes to you.
Your students stay yours
Built-in GHL CRM sub-account. Your inquiries, your follow-up, your relationship. We don’t own your audience.
0% commission. Forever.
On lessons, courses, live classes, bookings. Subscription is how we make money. Your revenue is not.
Built in pesos, for here
PH teachers pay in pesos. International teachers pay in USD. Local payment rails. No FX games.
What founding teachers receive
Everything in one stack.
14 days free
Use the platform end-to-end before you pay anything. No card up front.
0% commission. Forever.
On every lesson, course, and booking. Not promotional. Not temporary.
GHL CRM sub-account
Your own workspace inside our infrastructure. Pipelines, automations, follow-up — all yours.
Teacher profile + video hosting
A clean public page at himig.co/teachers/your-handle, with your video introduction.
Affiliate program — lifetime
35% revenue share on PH referrals, 15% international. Paid for as long as your referrals stay.
Founding teacher badge
A small permanent marker on your profile. Held for as long as you remain a subscriber.
Direct line to the founder
Office hours during the First Hundred phase. Real input on what we build next.
After your three-month trial
₱2,990/mo PH·$99/mo international
Who’s building this
From a UP College of Music student to her teachers.
I’m Vanessa. I studied at UP College of Music. I watched friends finish their degrees and leave music inside two years because the math didn’t work — private students were inconsistent, the conservatory route was closed, and every platform that promised to find them students took 25 to 30 percent off the top.
I built Himig because the people who taught me deserved better infrastructure than a Facebook page, a private message thread, and a platform that quietly owned their relationship with their students.
Fifty founding teachers will set the standard for everyone who comes after. I’m reading every application personally. If you teach what we need Himig to be complete — and you care about the work the way I care about building this — we’ll talk.
— Vanessa
How this works
Fifty founding teachers. One deadline.
The founding cohort is capped at fifty. After fifty seats fill — or on June 1, 2026, whichever comes first — applications close and the founding badge is permanently retired.
Standard teacher subscription stays open after that. The founding rate, founding badge, and direct founder access do not.
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