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by oxygen 6113 days ago
I like the design and the core concept. My suggestions:

1) The video was helpful and I would out it right under the "Try it for free" tab

2) In terms or pricing strategy, I like the idea of giving away one class for free and then adopt a per class pricing at around $30. I am sure there would be some teachers out there who would just use their one class slot for all classes but then you will always find 10% of your customers getting more than what they paid for. Lets worry about the remaining 90%

3) Make sure you keep track of what school are these teachers from. As soon as you see >5 teachers from a school registering, you might want to solicit an institutional model

4) I, as a teacher-customer, am not sure how will it work for students. What would they see and how? A video will help.

1 comments

1) That's good to hear, I'll try to make the video more prominent.

2) What's your reasoning for the $30 price point, as opposed to something lower? Also, having more than one class in a slot would cause some confusing overlaps in homework due dates and such, but you're right, there will always be some people trying to do it.

3) That's a good point, I'll look into a database of schools that I can put behind an AJAX picker.

4) I worried about that when I made the tour. I'll work on tacking on short segments from a student's viewpoint at various points in the video.

I would check if teachers think about their job in terms of workload per class or per month and work backwards from there. The real question is: how do I get to $X/teacher?