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Sorry for getting off-topic but:

Is there any business in creating a better "classroom" experience that what ex. Piazza is doing?

It seems like an are which could be improved immensely design/ux wise but it also seems like it could be an area where that's not really going to make you successful because the distribution is already owned by someone else.



One place where Piazza really excels is in their Sales. They used their network to get the big schools, now getting the smaller schools is relatively easy. I can't imagine a startup/small business selling software to say for ex. Harvard, without knowing a few professors inside Harvard. You can definitely make a app that students use, but getting professors on the platform and getting the selling part right would be incredibly challenging.


Someone else mentioned here that the reason the software is poor is that there is not enough money to make it better. Not sure if that is true though.




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