Ask HN: How much would you pay for a serious online course?
I am finally considering putting together courses on topics in machine learning and optimization that are hopefully both detailed and practical but start from first principles. An example is a course on discrete optimzation using simulated annealing. Ideally, I would like to put up the content on Udemy (infrastructure/marketing taken care of but they take a cut) or host my own site (I keep the profits but have to manager everything).
Towards that end, how much would you be willing to spend for a course ($0 is a perfectly acceptable answer)? I see people put up courses for $100-$200 on Udemy and that seems really high to me but maybe people do pay that much.
The end goals are 1) to demystify some of the topics that I enjoy, 2) to supplement my full-time income so I can scale back full-time work to do more open-source work and teaching.
Thanks in advance!
Ex: Udacity's SDC Nanodegree amounts to $2400, but was worth every penny for me. On the other hand, there are numerous machine learning courses on Udemy, and most of them I wouldn't pay for at all (even at $5-$10).
In the latter case, most of the content is either non valuable (its stuff that's repeated all over the internet) or non practical (can talk a lot about theory or math but if I don't actually build anything it doesn't help me).