| A market place where students offer their services. Need: people have niche needs and are willing to pay about $10 to $15 per hour for it. Students would probably like it a lot to be able to work different interesting jobs. Examples: being a tutor, helping someone write a letter, help an old person with computer issues [1] or whatever. Strategy: ".edu" addresses only, have templates to kickstart student's brainstorming on what tasks they could do, let them price it. Marketing to students: go to student coordinators and let them send out mass emails to students. Marketing to consumers: look for Reddit topics where it's clear that people say "I like to learn xyz" and then reply that you found a good site for it to learn that xyz skill. Revenue model: either self-advertizing (educational courses), normal advertizing (wouldn't recommend). Do not take a cut of the students, you want to give them every incentive to not go behind your back (students normally do that by teaching in private). Something like that, pure napkin sketch on what you could build. It's something I'd like to see. [1] How to reach digitally illiterate people? Their grandchildren could find you, or a student posts a business phone number on there that could be called. You could create a routing system where they get a business phone number that will be connected to their personal cellphone when needed via some app or sth. |