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- People use Skillshare or Teachable for things like roam-courses
- ​Why are people able to command such a premium for such courses, especially if they are mainly collections of videos?
- Basically just a Youtube playlist with payment/accounts? Why doesn’t Youtube offer this?
- Others, like Write of Passage and BASB-course use a custom stack - payment, membership, Zoom, mailing lists etc?
- None of the MOOC providers (Course, EdX, Udacity) want to work with individuals (also not Minerva currently)
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Things people want
- easy set up, payment, promotion etc
- white label - not "one more course on X platform", but "awesomecourse.com"
- hosting video and curriculum (mostly video)
- mailing lists / discussion forums
- cohort functionality
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One possibility would be for someone to use OpenEdX to set up a Software-as-a-Service for independent course creators, with payment etc integrated (Stripe?)
- Authoring courses is a hassle, not sure it’s worth it, given the small numbers.
- Maybe something like Canvas?
- Some of these courses also offer live video (Zoom etc) - what would it look like for Minerva to offer our services? Ideally through a reseller who could offer all of the other functionality, and bundle Forum access and training with payment, discussion forums, promotion, etc…
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Examples:
- Nat Eliason has made $50,000 on a course on Roam Research which is basically just 20 short videos (95$ fee).
- Tiago Forte has taught 800 people on his Building a Second Brain course, minimum price is 999$.
- ​Other examples - how big a market is this, and how many would be interested in Teachables-style courses or a bit more interactive, versus full-on video etc?