Show HN: Analytics of students in the classroom w/o expensive tech requirements.

kiteedu.com

15 points·ebzlo··3 comments

Looks like an very elegant and powerful service, I hope this takes off in a major way.

What's your plan for monetization? Ultimately, school districts care about support more than almost any factor (just look at the amount of horrendous tech in use in any K-12 school; Blackboard etc doesn't have much else going for it), and I'm sure a completely free hosted service with no visible income source might be a little off-putting.

I found out that my alma mater H.S. has recently dropped serious money (several thousands at least) on some seriously awful software - seriously frustrating for students, teachers, and parents - and now are obligated to continue using it because of the huge chunk of the budget that was lost. What's worse, it does a fraction of what Kite appears to do. These are the people who need to hear about your product -- well-meaning school IT staff who would otherwise be picking bloatware out of a hat.

We're planning to partner with publishers of textbooks, test prep materials, and question banks to sell their content in our marketplace (not yet launched). It works very similar to the apple app store where we take a cut of all sales. All their content would also then get integrated with our fax-to-grade tech and analytics.

Getting a new demo set up is going to be a little slow right now (didn't anticipate this much traffic).

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