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by dataduck 1870 days ago
Have you considered a consumer-billing version of this service, for students who are not low-income? For example, charging students for time credits they can use on the app, and paying tutors for their time? Perhaps you could use the revenue from such a service to fund the non-profit side of things.
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We've considered it, but one concern that I have is that the paid tutoring space is actually pretty saturated. We'd then be competing with all of those other sites to acquire middle and high income student/parent customers. Maybe we'd be able to get some market share if we played up the impact piece, but I'm still worried it would distract us from our main focus of helping low-income students get to college.