| Hey Ohad, I've already mailed you this, but for the others to read: Some of the decisions are inspired by "The 4 hour workweek" book by Timothy Ferriss; You could see this as one of my "muses" if you're familiar with it. My price is based on the idea that it should be somewhere in between $50 and $200, too cheap and it isn't worth the hassle, too expensive and people would have to think a bit more about it or they expect extra support. I've checked out other courses as well. Real life courses are a lot more expensive, online courses are a on average a bit cheaper, but most of them are videocourses and you don't have the option to ask questions or do the self tests. My first try was a plain text course. After creating the second chapter for 50% I knew this wasn't the way to go. Way too much text to read, people could buy a book and get the same. Next try was a video-course, something like lynda.com is offering. It's nice, but: most of the video is just static for minutes, you listen to teacher and the only animation you will see is a powerpoint transition or someone typing in some code. Video's consume a lot of bandwidth as well and what I really missed was to option to click links or copy code snippets during a video-course. Next try was video with popcorn.js. This worked, but still had the same video issues and I lacked the space on my screen to show the extra context. My last try was the current one. It worked like I wanted it to work, but I couldn't get the speech right myself, so I made a written script and had a voice-over do it. I've only created this first chapter to see if people are interested (another useful advice from the book), If I get enough potential orders I'll finish it, since it takes a huge chunk of my time to finish all 21 remaining chapters and I need to pay the voice-over as well. I don't really have any expectations, if it works out: great, if not: another nice experience, no big losses here. |