Very Promising!
After being partially spoiled by Teachable, I didn't have high expectations. Yet, the platform was a pleasant surprise. The user interface is clean, simplistic, no unnecessary stuff. Significant bonus points go to Rahul for being extremely helpful, and addressing many questions in real time via chat.
Observations/Pros:
- Platform is new, but promising. It has some major advantages in some areas over teachable, such as the ability to create course catalogs, and having a better UI.
- Everything is unlimited (if you use external storage, and embed videos), except for the authors
- Many items have already been considered, and are added to the roadmap (coupons - an absolute must, multiple embeds/content types per lecture, etc.)
- Company owner/founder (Rahul) is patient, humble, and hardworking (was chatting with me at 2AM of his local time). I am hopeful that he will be able to address minor nuisances and add essential features in no time.
Areas for improvement/cons:
- For double code, 3 authors do not translate into 3 master domains, as the sign-ups will be performed via a master domain that is associated with a master account. This means that if I want to setup 3 business entities, they will need 3 codes
- Very few direct integrations.. the following would be amazing (Integromat, WishList Member, WooCommerce - for taxes calculation - see how AmeliaWP.com has done it, Webhooks.. and all the rest can likely be accomplished using Integromat
- More translations would be great, but looks like they are already planned
- More customizations for the school landing page, for the course landing page, etc. This is a major annoyance with Teachable, where it can only be used for hosting of courses, rather than a proper landing pages
- Ability to redirect to an external URL upon various user actions. E.g., if the user has completed the payment, upon success, redirect them to a non FreshLMS page where there is an upsell
- Lack of clarity in the deal around what is meant by an author, and what can they do. Is it only based on the storage, or these are separate accounts of those who can publish courses under the overall school account?