Startup 3.0: How to Build a Better Web Startup
socrated.com
socrated.com
the concept is good and has value in my opinion (I signed up). I will have to give the content a go and see if the curriculum lives up to what I'd need/want.
Thoughts on monetization? I ask because I'd hate to see my learning environment become littered with distracting ads.
If you charge the lesson creators they will want to charge the students to recoup costs/make money. This is fine but it changes the entire dynamic of the website. The "web 3.0" example lesson plan becomes a moot example. All this information is free and the target audience most certainly is not going to be compelled to pay for this type of content. So your new target market becomes people looking for and creating "marketable skills" type of content. Content like lynda.com etc. Content that makes it clear students will get a return on their money.
I can see you building for traction and a lot of people setting up free lesson plans. Are these free lesson plan creators necessarily going to be the same market that would have a need for creating paid lesson plans?
I think the concept is solid, just doing some off the cuff thought exploration - good luck.
Okay, they just ask for name and email, but that information is totally useless unless they want to spam people afterwards, which would quickly destroy their reputation.
So the signup reduces their audience without any benefit.
One thing that annoyed me was the popup that comes up before each section... if I wanted to go back to a different section or skip sections, the popup just slowed me down and didn't offer any real value. You should just add the popup text to the actual page itself. just my two cents.
I’m assuming they will make their money by allowing teachers to charge for certain courses in return they’ll get a percentage. In other words, they’ll be a middleman.
SocratED certainly has a great advantage since their audience will not just pertain to a type of student, but rather anyone who wants to teach or learn. For example where I work now our flow chart is service->student, but with SocratED it’s service->teacher->student where (->) represents cash flow.
I also must add, love the UI, very clean and simple.
A few notes. 1) on your home page, in chrome, the 'sign-up' button is showing up behind your footer 2) the 'read more' logo leads to the same videos as the page they are sourced from. If you don't have more information, don't put a 'read more' button.
I do agree that there should be biblographical info and the option to view the video in entirety. I put that in as feature request on the site.
One small bug, the footer is floating in the middle when you submit an empty form at 1-step sign up ;)