Yeah we can probably add something like that soon. Right now we're a tiny team (2 people!) and we're pretty focused on just making our product better and helping existing users.

I can see the value of showing how we are differentiated though!

I think you could whip something up in an hour (30 min to write and 30 min to style it). I was thinking:

------ handles payments --- video lessons --- interactive

Udemy ------- Y ------------- Y ---------- N

Slip ------- Y ------------- Y ------------- Y

XYZ ------------- N ------------- N ------------- Y

etc

ugh, formatting is a challenge even here

hmmm, I think you should be able to use four leading spaces on HN to get monospaced text:

    | class | handles payments | video lessons | interactive |
    | Udemy | Y                | Y             | N           |
    | Slip  | Y                | Y             | Y           |
    | XYZ   | N                | N             | Y           |

edit: sweet! worked like a charm

The author maintains ownership and can sell the content on other platforms if they want. I'll make a note to add this language into our ToS

not crass at all! People who want to get paid for teaching valuable knowledge should get paid.

We have a presale feature available for select authors that we think are promising. We're going to formalize the process for getting selected soon but in the mean time a good way to gauge interest is to try and promote the idea of your course to any type of audience you might have. An email list is a decent idea for gauging interest

Q1) Right now, we're manually approving/denying courses for publishing based on a subjective quality bar. Our aim is to be more of a premium course marketplace for career developers.

Q2) Ah yeah we have a ToS, i'll add it to the home page rn. It's still evolving.

Q3) Yup we want to help more developers realize they can be teachers. Figuring out how to better take a dev from Never teaching -> Making money while creating real progress in their students, is a big goal

love this framing. yeah i hope we can help the next 100 Wes Bos' learn that they can teach programming online while earning a great living.

The time-barrier is just really high right now to make an awesome course.

We don't support Paypal (yet?). We payout via Stripe.

You can't import/export yet but do plan on adding that

Nope, that's unintentional. I'm not able to see your gif. But if you let me know your browser/OS/device I can take a look and fix it :)

The "Start Building Your Course For Free Today!" button and TOS button are both just white strips in Safari on Mac.

Same for me (chrome on windows)

cool! thanks for the support. It's been super fun on my side to see this small idea of teaching folks vim evolve into something that helps other devs earn money :)

Great question! It's similar.

We're a brand new startup. Only a few months old and we're currently a team of just 2 people.

One way we plan to differentiate is by being the easiest tool to use on the author side.

We've seen some early users already spend 10s of hours in their course per week which is really promising.

We're actively thinking of ways to transform awesome developers into great course teachers.

One hack we found was that a lot of great devs don't realize how valuable their knowledge is. We added a presale feature to encourage our most promising authors to build an amazing course.

I think this will be possible once we add Repl embeds :)