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Ask HN: Who would pay $20/mo for Netflix for research
If there were a way to pay $20/mo for access to ~5 publications/mo from a list of hundreds/thousands, that would be fantastic! Netflix for research. I'd pay for it. Would you?
It wouldn't be terribly challenging to build. The tricks are in making the deals with the content owners, and getting the word out to users.
The total market is 137 Billion/year ( https://www.ibisworld.com/industry-trends/market-research-re... ) Not bad.
Looks like half the market is the government. Might be enough there to build a business on. Hard to say. Requires more research.
Anyone think this could work?
- raybb 8y agoI wonder how many people are interested in academic articles that don't already have access to them through a library near them.
- sternocleidom 8y agoThis is delusional and would never work
- davidjnelson 8y agohahahha, nice. good to know lol.
- Bucephalus355 8y agoDeepDyve does something similar to this. They charge $40 a month.