Let me start off by saying the Bytes is good at what it says it does: it's a quick & easy way to transform ideas, notes, or even transcripts into mini-courses that you can then sell easily.

As some people have pointed out, it's not super flexible in what it does, but for one, its simplicity and lack of options is part of why it's so quick & powerful; and secondly, it's flexibly is enough for most use-cases (unless you want to achieve something very very specific, in which case you'd probably be better off using something more advanced).

With that being said, there is one HUGE issue with Bytes:

You CANNOT change the slide/page template layout after it has generated (what I mean is whether it's multiple slides, or image + text, or flip cards, or a checklist, or bullet points, etc.). And the AI seems to choose the template completely randomly, without any concern about whether or not it's the best way to present the specific information on the slide/page.

Now, sure: technically, I would be able to go in, create a new slide/page from scratch (or even duplicate another one with the right layout), write the text myself, add images, etc. But that would take A LOT of time – defeating the purpose of a quick & easy, *almost* automatic AI course builder.

And this is SO frustrating, that it overshadows my otherwise good experience with the tool. Because of this, I haven't been able to generate a single course that I think is ready to sell, and I'm stuck trying to decide whether I should spend time on creating slides/pages from scratch, or just give up because there's too many slides/pages I'd have to create manually.

So, my suggestion/request?

Add a button to regenerate the slide/page (using the same information & details to fit the flow of the course) with AI in a different layout. And let users choose the layout for the regeneration!!!

I've seen multiple AI tools support this – for example, Gamma (gamma.app) kind of already does this with its presentations – so this should be a relatively simple task to achieve.

And in a broader sense: it would also be nice to generate more quiz questions with AI. Generate new – specifically prompted slides – with AI. And generally just use the AI more flexibly while creating a course altogether.

Additionally, there are a few smaller issues I've noticed:

• The texts in the mini-courses are NOT optimized for skimming. You get huge – almost intimidating – blocks of identical texts, no bold, no italics, no white space, nothing!

• The AI's research capabilities are bad – to say the least. Every time I uploaded a document and specifically requested the AI to do its own research to fill in the gaps, give actionable insights, provide examples, or make logical connections/conclusions, the results fell short of my expectations.

• Not all images get generated. In every course I've created so far, some images are left blank. Not a huge issue, since I'm able to come up with an image prompt and generate one myself. But it's still a bit frustrating, and makes the experience feel buggy.

• AI doesn't follow instructions. I've used the SAME document and tried to create a beginner, intermediate, and advanced course from it. And the results were almost the same exact course, with a slightly different layout. No additional depth for the advanced course. No initial explanations for the beginner course. Just the same stuff, packaged slightly differently.

• No custom domains. I've asked the Bytes team about custom domains before making my purchase, so I can't really hold this against them. But it's still weird that you can't connect your own domain to your courses. Yes, I know there's technically a workaround, but that requires a lot of extra effort, especially if you don't have a website where your courses could fit in seamlessly. This just makes it feel a bit unprofessional, and I really hope the devs will consider enabling custom domains in the future.

• And finally: the entire thing feels very much like AI – in the worst possible way. The text is full of unnecessary AI fillers: buzzwords, rhetorical questions, and other AI generated nonsense (for example – and I quote: "Alright, you copywriting rockstar, are you ready to unlock some serious copywriting superpowers?"). I'd much rather make everything sound more human, and use the space taken up by all this garbage to provide additional depth, explanations, examples, or context.

Now, before you get the wrong impression: Bytes might be a decent deal already, and it definitely has huge potential!

If the devs take my feedback seriously, and address the points I've mentioned above, then Bytes just might become the best course builder I've ever tried. And in that case, I'd be very happy to edit my review and give them the 5 tacos they will surely deserve. But otherwise, I just might refund this tool, because as it stands, it's nowhere near ready to rely on to create quality courses, and simply doesn't live up to its promise.