Tell HN: 19yo, bootstrapped SaaS, 250k ARR after 10 months

Re:Tell HN: 19yo, bootstrapped SaaS, 250k ARR after 10 months by MH15 on Saturday January 23, 2021 @04:31PM (#25886306)

Anti-cheating software is a fundamentally flawed approach. As remote education becomes more common educators should leave the concept of an "exam" behind and embrace project-based and open book curriculum.

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Re:Tell HN: 19yo, bootstrapped SaaS, 250k ARR after 10 months by nugget on Saturday January 23, 2021 @04:40PM (#25886408)

Art school is a series of project-based classes that culminate in a portfolio of original work that the student can showcase, and that system seems to make perfect sense to everybody.

I don't know why other disciplines have been so resistant (forget textbook publishers, I mean the professors, deans, and other administrators themselves.) It's not clear to me there are any reasons to be against it, so perhaps it's simply the inertia of large, bureaucratic, conformist institutions.

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Re:Tell HN: 19yo, bootstrapped SaaS, 250k ARR after 10 months by kyawzazaw on Sunday January 24, 2021 @05:13AM (#25890823)

We can try to do that for computer science but it wouldn't work superwell because I feel like some fundamentals are core and needed a systematic way of testing

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Re:Tell HN: 19yo, bootstrapped SaaS, 250k ARR after 10 months by ddoice on Sunday January 24, 2021 @02:19AM (#25890052)

Totally agree, and this kind of solutions only blocks the laptop but the students can use their smartphones to search for the answers.

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Re:Tell HN: 19yo, bootstrapped SaaS, 250k ARR after 10 months by nocobot on Monday January 25, 2021 @03:09AM (#25900675)

I feel like the reason there is a demand for applications like this is not to prevent all cheating but to enable the school / Uni to claim that anti cheating measures where used for online testing.

I think the product is really smart.

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