Show HN: I made a site where students can create and share flashcards and notes

Re:Show HN: I made a site where students can create and shar... by gavribirnbaum on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @09:24AM (#22945265)

Thanks for asking. Yes we are, but we want to always have a super generous free-tier. We were looking into charging educators for using Barbra in the classroom with more features (like tracking, permissions, etc), and also charging power-users (people with a lot of flashcards and notes) a small subscription fee of around 5-8$ a month.

What do you think? :) is it fair?

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Re:Show HN: I made a site where students can create and shar... by barry-cotter on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @11:09AM (#22946356)

> charging power-users (people with a lot of flashcards and notes) a small subscription fee of around 5-8$ a month

Don’t charge that little monthly. Maybe $30 a quarter for more than 5,000 text flash cards or $50 for that plus photos and videos. No one has yet made a success of flash cards with a real big company. Anki is one guy. Remembr.it focuses on Chinese vocabulary. Memrise needs to figure out a way to make real money because they took VC.

Good luck. Counting to $40,000 a year in $8 increments is really hard. Don’t handicap yourself by charging so little.

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Re:Show HN: I made a site where students can create and shar... by gavribirnbaum on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @11:14AM (#22946408)

That is true. Thank you. We want to empower ourselves enough to invest back into product and make it awesome.

Specially during Covid we need to figure out how to stay alive without necessarily fundraising.

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Re:Show HN: I made a site where students can create and shar... by e12e on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @11:43AM (#22946768)

Personally I strongly favour building a sustainable business - but surely you can raise funds despite (because of! Given your market) the crisis?

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Re:Show HN: I made a site where students can create and shar... by zeko1195 on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @09:36AM (#22945373)

Maybe you could allow creators to make their decks purchasable? Maybe take a cut from that purchase

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Re:Show HN: I made a site where students can create and shar... by gavribirnbaum on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @09:42AM (#22945427)

Hmm yes. Could be good. We are trying to build this "study group template" library. So we are putting the notes and flashcards from our university lectures up for free in the platform. Maybe asking students to do so too for their lectures and then giving them money based on how many people use it would be nice.

It could look like this (mockup) https://imgur.com/JVdhnco

What do you think? :)

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