[dbrannan]

I have a start up in the black since 2006. All three partners contribute to the code, help debug, and provide customer support. All of us work at other jobs, or independently.

Currently we use profits to pay anyone willing to work on the code and add features. It is self-sustaining, at least.

See: http://www.examprofessor.com

Comments, ideas, suggestions are welcome.

[aoza]

I just released http://www.examcommunity.com about two weeks ago... its a ghost town now... hopefully that will change.. How long did it take for you guys to get some traction?

[dbrannan]

I registered on your site and took it for a spin - very well done.

We initially geared our site towards teachers, but later learned that wasn't the market that was willing to pay for our services. Maybe your experience will be different.

It is a slow process. About 1-2% of our customers convert to paying accounts. When we started limiting what was free it seems people stepped up to the bat and subscribed to a paying account.

Note - your prices seem very low. You could experiment with your price structure, people might value your service more than you realize.

[aoza]

thanks for the thumbs up... as time goes on will experiment with the price.