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My brother and I have built a couple of test prep sites for UK medical school entrance exams: https://www.bmat.ninja https://www.bmat.ninja, https://www.ukcat.n
by refrigerator 10y ago
My brother and I have built a couple of test prep sites for UK medical school entrance exams: https://www.bmat.ninja https://www.bmat.ninja, https://www.ukcat.ninja https://www.ukcat.ninja . BMAT Ninja made about $25k this year (up from $16k last year) and UKCAT about $10k.
Didn't do any work on marketing really so it is pretty much passive, but I think with a bit of work they could both do a lot better. It's a very seasonal market - we only get customers for about 3 months per year (the 3 months leading up to the exams), so thinking of branching out into other exams that occur during other times of the year so the income is a bit more steady.
- abutler 10y agoLooks good! What did you use to build this?
- refrigerator 10y agoThanks :) Nothing special really - Laravel on the backend, Bootstrap on the frontend. And React for the interactive question bank interface (probably not necessary but I wanted to learn it...)
- harperlee 10y agoHow did you get the question bank? Did you pay students for questions? If so, how did the costs balance the profits?
- refrigerator 10y agoWe paid freelancers from around the world (via www.upwork.com) to write the questions based on some guidelines we made (it's not really hard to write questions of this level so anyone can do it with a bit of guidance) and then paid medical students to write the solutions. Probably spent about $7k on this stuff back when it started, so it did require a bit of upfront cost.
- biznerd 10y agogreat site! if you didnt do any marketing, how did your customers find you?