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Over a weekend during the height of the pandemic, I made a digital school material website that has a "donate" button on it. Totally unexpectedly, it was making $1k/mo via donations. The original hope was to just pay for the hosting costs.


How did you make people aware of your site?


My wife is a teacher and I built the materials so that she could use them in her remote lessons. She shared with her colleagues, and growth was purely through word of mouth.


Nice! My wife is becoming a teacher and I already though about this as well.

There are options out there but half good build but not good or easy.


Do you have insights to share about working in this domain or documentation (blog or otherwise) for this project?

I'm working on an e-learning platform that aims to solve a few pain points my sister encounters in her job as a teacher. I'd be curious to hear about your experience.


Cool. What's the URL?




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