News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Sell to Teachers.

Re:Sell to Teachers by ansy on Sunday September 18, 2011 @11:34PM (#3012113)
I don't know why anyone would doubt this could work. It worked for patio11 [1]. His empire was pretty much built on selling bingo card software to elementary school teachers. In fact I'm surprised for all the author's citations he doesn't cite Bingo Card Creator [2].

Granted, patio11's overhead was extremely low. But who isn't trying to validate businesses quickly before dumping unnecessary money into them these days?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11

[2] http://www.bingocardcreator.com/

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Sell to Teachers by wdewind on Sunday September 18, 2011 @11:39PM (#3012126)
It really depends on what you're doing. Blackboard is notorious for patent trolling companies who try to enter the education space. Patio makes a product that teachers happen to use, but it's not exactly in the education space.
[ Parent | on HN ]