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As a former math professor, I'm not confident that this would be as scalable as you might be assuming. Given a nominal fee of $1k/year and a reasonable target o
by math_and_stuff 10y ago
As a former math professor, I'm not confident that this would be as scalable as you might be assuming. Given a nominal fee of $1k/year and a reasonable target of 100 such subscriptions, that is 100 people requesting "unlimited" amounts of your time in 1on1's. And decent 1on1's require non-trivial prep. And, given 100 customers, at least one is bound to push the limits of the "unlimited" premise.
- dxbydt 10y agoThe "unlimited" is mostly branding, like gmail's unlimited email storage. In practice, professionals like myself simply don't have the time to bug you at all hours of the day. I have a dayjob and maybe an hour I could devote to math every weekday. So worst case you'd receive 1 question a day...usually far less. Moreover, students tend to ask the same questions, so after the initial phase you can simply redirect most queries to preexisting URL. Also, you as a professor don't have to chime in for everything - have a graduate student preprocess the majority of the questions and you attack the harder 10%. Its definitely feasible. Chegg does something similar - what's missing is the quality and rankings