How amazing...great job sir the site/app looks very promising!
Being a mid-50s dev with 35 years of programming experience, I'm finding ageism (or something) blocking my ability to get hired these days, so teaching is something I've been seriously thinking about. Your platform could very well be an ideal way to explore this path.
So a practical question...do you have any way to gauge course interest before one spends the time creating it as to make sure there will be a profitable number of students when the course starts?
As someone who is needing some income, I would hate to blindly spend a few weeks creating a course on, say, LAMP-stack + Bootstrap webapp development...only to find out that only 2 people are interested in this tech and I just spent a month to make $100 bucks or whatever.
I'm sorry if this is perhaps coming across as "crass" or something like that with simply focusing on the income side of things, but in general having a list of course topics that potential students have expressed interest in sure could be a useful thing to help one build courses that people actually want.
Anyway...congrats on the launch. So far the site seems really easy to use (LOVE the single email registration/login prompt! You have no idea how much I've argued for this sort of thing with past clients) and hopefully this will be the start of something mutually beneficial.
It would make sense for the site to add requested topics to be covered and allow users to upvote/+1 them. That would give content creators some idea of the demand for those courses.
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
Being a mid-50s dev with 35 years of programming experience, I'm finding ageism (or something) blocking my ability to get hired these days, so teaching is something I've been seriously thinking about. Your platform could very well be an ideal way to explore this path.
So a practical question...do you have any way to gauge course interest before one spends the time creating it as to make sure there will be a profitable number of students when the course starts?
As someone who is needing some income, I would hate to blindly spend a few weeks creating a course on, say, LAMP-stack + Bootstrap webapp development...only to find out that only 2 people are interested in this tech and I just spent a month to make $100 bucks or whatever.
I'm sorry if this is perhaps coming across as "crass" or something like that with simply focusing on the income side of things, but in general having a list of course topics that potential students have expressed interest in sure could be a useful thing to help one build courses that people actually want.
Anyway...congrats on the launch. So far the site seems really easy to use (LOVE the single email registration/login prompt! You have no idea how much I've argued for this sort of thing with past clients) and hopefully this will be the start of something mutually beneficial.
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