Hacker News Reader

Comment by binarymax | Hacker News Reader

Sure. This seems a cultural difference between US and EU. I've lived extensively in both. EU is known to be burdensome in terms of tech regulations. Normally I find this egregious. However when children are involved I am far more tolerant of their requirements. 10% OpEx overhead to make sure children are protected seems entirely reasonable to me. If you're not prepared to meet their requirements then skip the EU.

View on HN

Seconding this. If you're just a team of 10, you are way too small to take on the responsibility of the thing you're trying to provide. I shudder to think of the educational quality a team of ten will provide to hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren in thousands of different schools.

You're too small for the less-regulated US. Add people to deal with things.

You're presenting a false dichotomy between building good products and being capable of fulfiling extremely burdensome (not to mention, expensive) compliance requirements from the EU.

We're perfectly qualified to build the core tech. We're just not paperwork experts. Are you suggesting if we can't do paperwork, we shouldn't build innovative products that improve educational outcomes?

Absolutely. You can build an innovative product, sure, but you can't refine it or support it the way it needs to be supported.

Perhaps you have other teams working on product management, customer success (odd term for education, but applicable), etc.? Are the grading rubrics tuned for each student, what they need, what's in their IEP or 509? What is your plan for handling the legal challenges when the system massively screws up?

This isn't a random B2B. This is a subtly very important influence on a great many actual humans.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com