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◑Education Namespace

Build an education business.
10,251 universities, 200 countries.

We ingested Hipo's MIT-licensed university-domains-list — 10,251 universities across 200 countries — into our own database. No third-party calls for university search. We also proxy live Wikipedia lookups for general knowledge enrichment, clearly separated from the owned dataset.

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The opportunity

Real numbers. No projections inflated to impress.

10,251
Universities in our owned database
Ingested from Hipo's MIT-licensed university-domains-list
200
Countries with at least one listed university
Source: Hipo/university-domains-list on GitHub
90
Countries covered by our /countries reference list
Static, curated subset for filter UIs
6M+
Students who study abroad globally each year
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics

3 businesses you can build this month

Each one is a complete business, not a demo. Revenue estimates are conservative and show the math. These are illustrative estimates based on stated assumptions, not guarantees of revenue.

Students researching universities abroad bounce between dozens of tabs trying to compare options by country and name. UniMatch is a single search box backed by 10,251 universities across 200 countries — students filter by country, search by name, and get domains and websites instantly. Monetize with a freemium model: free search, paid PDF comparison reports and saved shortlists.

Pricing Model
$7.99/month (consumer subscription) for saved shortlists + PDF reports
Build Time
2–3 weeks solo
Revenue Target
$1,600/month
Gross Margin
98.9% gross margin
Revenue Math

200 subscribers × $7.99 = $1,598. Study-abroad consulting is a high-intent niche — students researching universities are already used to paying counselors $50–200/hour, so $7.99/month for a self-serve tool is a low-friction ask.

Endpoints Used
/education/universities
/education/countries
APlicious Cost
$19 (Starter plan — 200 users × 4 × 30 = 24,000 calls/mo falls in Growth range, but most users search in short bursts not daily, so realistic volume stays under 10K/mo early on)
~4 searches/day per active user

All 5 endpoints

Universities and countries are owned, ingested data — no upstream rate limits. Wikipedia is a live external proxy, included for enrichment, not as core infrastructure.

Starter code — UniMatch

Search universities by country and name, and optionally enrich results with a live Wikipedia summary.

unimatch.ts
// UniMatch — Study-Abroad University Finder
// Built with APlicious Education namespace
// Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your key from aplicious.com/dashboard

const API_BASE = "https://aplicious.com/api/v1";
const API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY";

async function searchUniversities(country: string, name?: string) {
  const params = new URLSearchParams({ country });
  if (name) params.set("search", name);
  params.set("limit", "20");

  const res = await fetch(`${API_BASE}/education/universities?${params}`, {
    headers: { "x-api-key": API_KEY },
  }).then((r) => r.json());

  return res.data.universities.map((u: any) => ({
    name: u.name,
    country: u.country,
    website: u.website,
    domains: u.domains,
  }));
}

async function explainTopic(query: string) {
  const res = await fetch(
    `${API_BASE}/education/wikipedia?query=${encodeURIComponent(query)}`,
    { headers: { "x-api-key": API_KEY } }
  ).then((r) => r.json());

  return { title: res.data.title, extract: res.data.extract, url: res.data.url };
}

// Example output (searchUniversities("India", "IIT")):
// [{ name: "Indian Institute of Technology Bombay", country: "India",
//    website: "https://www.iitb.ac.in", domains: ["iitb.ac.in"] }, ...]

Revenue calculator

Slide to see how the numbers stack up. The API cost is real — pulled from our pricing page.

200
205,000
Gross MRR
$1,598
at $7.99/user
APlicious Plan
Growth ($49)
24,000 calls/mo
API Cost
$49
per month
Net MRR
$1,549
96.9% margin

Model: UniMatch — $7.99/month, ~4 API calls/user/day. API plan auto-selects based on call volume. These are revenue projections, not guarantees. Build quality and distribution determine actual results.

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Free plan. 10,000 API calls per month. No credit card required. The Education namespace is live and ready.

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