[asicsp]

Yeah, agree that 45-day refund policy is a great option for readers and thus increases the likelyhood of a purchase.

Regarding the questions:

1. I thought courses were video, similar to Udemy. I just went through FAQ and found that video is optional. Courses has quiz, certificates, etc. Personally, I'm more interested in an interactive programming environment where users can execute code snippets and exercises can be solved from the website itself. I've also thought about creating a desktop application as an alternative.

2. Thanks a lot for the offer, I would like to think about it. I'll let you know if I'm interested.

[peterarmstrong]

Sounds good re. #2. Re, #1, we don't offer anything in terms of an interactive environment at the moment, and we probably won't do so for a long time. That seems like a full startup in itself.

Instead, we are differentiating by focusing on being the easiest way of making a course based on Markdown (since our books are already typically written in Markdown, so the conversion is simple). These courses need to have automated marking and certificates of course, but everything else (video, interactivity, etc) is either optional (like video) or not supported (like interactive exercises).

For us, the big win is on making courses which are easy to update: recording a video course takes a long time, so updating a video course regularly typically just doesn't happen...