With almost 50,000 hits since its April 1998 debut, Yournotes has been growing steadily as its gets more financial support from sponsors. Companies can buy advertising space on the site which enables it to pay students to type up their class notes and e-mail them to the maintainers of the site for publication. Professors are contacted and made aware that notes from their classes will appear on the site. Ciabarra said that professors use other methods to get their students to attend class. Yournotes is looking to add six or seven classes by the end of Fall Semester 1998 and possibly have notes for 30 to 40 classes by the end of Spring Semester.
Expansion depends upon funding from sponsors.