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I'm not convinced that there are real business partnerships between Fread and these journals. It's likely that this just violates their ToS by reselling a single subscription

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It's not obvious who is behind the site, there's no "this is how we make money" statement, there's nothing at all indicating that they have any partnerships with any of the publications listed.

So it seems pretty likely they're violating these publications' terms of service.

Also- and this is petty- it's hosted on Wix. So there's that.

How they make money - they don’t, they lose it per user. A lot.

I think the non-technical founder does most of the front end work in Wix to free up the very small development team to work on the rest of the stack. Something about a lean startup.

You are speaking like you are an outsider, but you have "fread" in your username? A 3 month account but you don't have any comments until today?

haha, you are right ! I'm actually impressed... It's a fine one pager. I didn't know you could get something that clean with Wix, but I guess there is no reason why not. Now that I think about it, it's probably the kind of stuff it should actually be great at.

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