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Test prep sites for medical school exams

Built online prep resources for UK medical school entrance exams. Students pay for access, mostly in the months before the exams.

At a glance
Estimated by a classifier that read the source. The bar shows how sure it was.
Category
Software and apps
67% sure
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Earns from
One-time salesLow confidence
49% sure
x
Startup cost (estimate)
$1k to $10kLow confidence
51% sure
x
Time it takes (estimate)
Hands-off
84% sure
x
Where
Online
99% sure
x
Coding
Needs coding
88% sure
x
Source
Hacker NewsComment by refrigerator in “Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?”, December 11, 2016

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