There is a lot to like about Gurucan.

However, it is definitely not in the league of Teachable, Thinkific, Learndash, Kajabi and the like i.e. mainstream LMS, where the focus is on helping students learn. I have developed in three of those BTW, so speaking from experience.

I feel Gurucan is trying be everything to everyone. much of it marketing rather than course-delivery focused. The feature-request page is a shopping list of requests, most of them it seems from people that have done little course development.

Why is GC implementing Webinars? Nice idea, but let's get the basic LMS functionality right first. There's countless webinar apps, similarly email and marketing apps. Why re-invent those?

As a start-up they need to niche. What is their niche?

As for the LMS functions, students in a course don't want to be confronted with frippery e.g. big pretty images. They want to get on with learning

When they login, they want to quickly get to where they left off last time. In GC, you click giant thumbnails to get to a lesson. If you have 40-50 lessons in a course that's a lot of clutter to go through.

Students want access to a list of lessons e.g. in the left-hand sidebar to quickly navigate to any lesson (they often go back to previous lessons).

There is a lot more like more capable quizzes.

I can see that for short (lifestyle?) courses and I'm not being patronising here, where mainstream LMS' are overkill they may be a fit. However, they shouldn't be trying to position themselves as a replacement for those apps. Not yet anyway. That is misleading

That said, if GC focused on core LMS functionality and prioritised things like generic integration e.g. Integromat, Integrately to hook to other apps, rather than reinventing the wheel with their own apps, they could become a serious contender.