Stuvia started in 2010 as a place for students to share the notes they had already written. Fifteen years on, more than a million students use it every month, in over 180 countries, and more than six million documents have been added in the past two years. Today, tens of thousands of students sell their notes, and over a million a month come looking for them.
Most sellers never set out to run a business. They wrote summaries to pass their own exams, uploaded them once, and kept earning long after the module was over. On average, sellers earn around $97 a month from work they made in an afternoon, and popular notes can keep selling for years after graduation.
The process is deliberately simple. You upload a document, add a title and description, and set your own price. Stuvia lists it on the right course and subject pages, shows it to students searching for that exact material, and handles the payment. You cash out to your bank every week. Throughout, you keep full ownership and copyright of your work; buyers only ever get personal-use access.
What sets Stuvia apart is less about raw volume and more about reach and reliability: fifteen years of paying out to students, an international audience rather than a single country, and real depth in niche modules where a good set of notes is genuinely hard to find. For the full picture and the latest numbers, see our About page.