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by gdangelo 1645 days ago
Running, maintaining, and improving AlterClass is a full time job and it is costly. I'm putting a lot of time and effort into it. The monthly subscription is to help me make a living while helping others with creating and selling better online courses.
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You seem to be missing the point the parent comment is making. Of course asking for money makes sense from your side, but the question here is about the content creators. Why would they choose your platform over competitors, many of which are free?

  1- An easy-to-use interface to create the content of their course, specialized in technical/programming courses.
  2- The freedom to organize their lessons as they wish. Instructors are not restricted to a specific format. Instead, they can choose from various blocks, as mentioned above.
  3- The freedom to sell their courses for the price they want without worrying about any promotional campaigns from the platform, for instance.
  4- Integrated payment processing, so they don't have to worry about setting it up themselves.
  5- A marketplace to host and showcase their courses.
  6- Tools to help them build up the audience they need to drive initial sales, such as offering free courses, presale courses, or using their custom domain (coming soon). I will also provide/include marketing tools to instructors to manage their audience right from AlterClass (coming soon).
As a primary goal for 2022, I will also keep driving highly relevant organic traffic to AlterClass. So that, on top of everything I mentioned, instructors could benefit from this traffic when launching a course with no audience.

I hope this helps you understand the benefits of choosing AlterClass to launch your courses. Please let me know if there is anything unclear, and as always, feel free to provide any feedback or idea you have. Thanks!

What are you offering here that I can't get from other, free alternatives?
Please see my comment above.
All of the features you listed are present on other sites I've seen, it doesn't really answer the question I had (which I suspect tells me everything I need to know about your service)
Then, what feature do you need/want that isn't on this list? Finally, what made you consider looking at another platform if you already have everything you need on others? Thanks for your feedback.