EdTech · sub-niche
University syllabus search engines.
Search across millions of university syllabi for content, readings, prerequisites.
Month-long buildTrickle — one deal per quarter
Why now
Faculty + researchers + students need syllabus discovery. The data exists but is unstructured.
What the signal looks like
Repos with syllabus-extraction libraries, citation-graph builders, and faculty-attribution data.
Public examples
We name publicprojects + categories only — never founders we track inside the paid product. The buyer’s edge stays inside the product.
- Open Syllabus Project shape
- Sci-Hub for syllabi
- Course catalog APIs
What this displaces
Google + 'syllabus.pdf' + manual extraction.
Our build-vs-invest call
Open data wedge. The moat is data depth + structured extraction + API + use-cases.
Common questions about this niche
- Buyer?
- Faculty + researchers + course publishers.
- Pricing?
- API + premium subscription.
- Moat?
- Data freshness + structure.
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