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Wow, this definitely has great value and will potentially do very well. I currently work part-time as a developer for an online school that launched last year. We have a niche market to which we offer specific courses which are needed for certification in their field. We did very well in terms of revenue the first year.

I’m assuming they will make their money by allowing teachers to charge for certain courses in return they’ll get a percentage. In other words, they’ll be a middleman.

SocratED certainly has a great advantage since their audience will not just pertain to a type of student, but rather anyone who wants to teach or learn. For example where I work now our flow chart is service->student, but with SocratED it’s service->teacher->student where (->) represents cash flow.

I also must add, love the UI, very clean and simple.



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