If you'd have said "review my app", I would've said it's awesome. Great job.
But the moment you call it a startup, I have to ask how you make money. So, how do you plan to make money? Students are poor, and cheap, and I'm not sure ads would fit it even if you had the traffic.
You're right, I should have used "web app" instead. There are ads (which doesn't hurt to have), but I'm thinking of other means of monetization. Thanks for the feedback.
A suggestion and a possible monetization idea - don't sell to students. Make schools your target. They buy a copy of your app and put it on their servers. Make it possible for teachers to push out assignments to it.
It also makes the thing actually useful for me -- I don't want to have to remember to add the assignments to it myself. I already know what my assignments are and I don't have time to type them into yet another place.
+10 if I could. This is much better than selling to students. I know a couple startups selling to schools, and there are difficulties there too (like actually closing the deal), but if you want to monetize, this strategy is worth a shot.
both orib and steveplace have good suggestions that I'd like to expand on.
For study notes, I think an Amazon affiliate model would probably work best. Ebay would be tempting (i.e. potentially cheaper) but likely to throw up less relevant results.
As for packaging up and selling to schools - great, but even greater would be to provide schools with their own hosted version instead. They set up a CNAME off their domain pointed at a hosted version and students can work within their own schools. This would also work for colleges.
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If you'd have said "review my app", I would've said it's awesome. Great job.
But the moment you call it a startup, I have to ask how you make money. So, how do you plan to make money? Students are poor, and cheap, and I'm not sure ads would fit it even if you had the traffic.
You're right, I should have used "web app" instead. There are ads (which doesn't hurt to have), but I'm thinking of other means of monetization. Thanks for the feedback.
A suggestion and a possible monetization idea - don't sell to students. Make schools your target. They buy a copy of your app and put it on their servers. Make it possible for teachers to push out assignments to it.
It also makes the thing actually useful for me -- I don't want to have to remember to add the assignments to it myself. I already know what my assignments are and I don't have time to type them into yet another place.
+10 if I could. This is much better than selling to students. I know a couple startups selling to schools, and there are difficulties there too (like actually closing the deal), but if you want to monetize, this strategy is worth a shot.
both orib and steveplace have good suggestions that I'd like to expand on.
For study notes, I think an Amazon affiliate model would probably work best. Ebay would be tempting (i.e. potentially cheaper) but likely to throw up less relevant results.
As for packaging up and selling to schools - great, but even greater would be to provide schools with their own hosted version instead. They set up a CNAME off their domain pointed at a hosted version and students can work within their own schools. This would also work for colleges.
You could sell study guides based off what homework they are saving.
No, then you're in the content business. And students won't like you for profiting off their work.