Show HN: AlterClass – A platform for making and selling programming courses

Re:Show HN: AlterClass – A platform for making and selling p... by gdangelo on Sunday December 12, 2021 @03:00PM (#29533040)

Thanks for submitting your first course, "Building Typescript Libraries". I've received the notification, I'll look into it first thing in the morning tomorrow. Did you submit it just for testing AlterClass or for launching it for real? :)

I totally understand that the ownership of your course content is a concern for you and I'm working on a solution. I don't want to promise anything yet, but I do think hard about it. As an instructor myself, I understand that you want to own your course and have access to it outside the platform you used to create it. More on that soon.

Regarding the blocks/lessons order, it is not possible on the authoring system yet. I'm working on that too.

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Re:Show HN: AlterClass – A platform for making and selling p... by seveibar on Sunday December 12, 2021 @04:44PM (#29533956)

I would build out more of it and list it for free (I've dropped in a lot of TODO sections), I'm not sure if "progressive release" is possible, if it's not, we wouldn't want to release it as is. I have a lot of team members who I have to teach this type of build system, and the material online isn't very opinionated so I end up seeing a lot of incompatible configurations.

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Re:Show HN: AlterClass – A platform for making and selling p... by gdangelo on Sunday December 12, 2021 @05:03PM (#29534119)

I see. Thanks for the update. Having TODOs is not a great experience for the students. If you'd like to list it for free, I suggest you, at least provide a first version of it that can teach something meaningful for the students. And then, you can still add more sections/lessons to it over time. I'll review it tomorrow morning and we will work on it together.

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Re:Show HN: AlterClass – A platform for making and selling p... by randmeerkat on Sunday December 12, 2021 @06:49PM (#29534931)

> I totally understand that the ownership of your course content is a concern for you and I'm working on a solution.

Ownership shouldn’t need to be “worked” out, the creator owns their content and either AlterClass supports that or they’re ripping off the creator. Especially since AlterClass is charging the content creator transaction fees and a subscription fee.

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Re:Show HN: AlterClass – A platform for making and selling p... by gdangelo on Monday December 13, 2021 @02:24AM (#29537517)

What I mean by that is ownership and access of your course content beyond AlterClass. More coming soon :)

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