[gentleman11]

I looked into making a udemy course once but it wasnt even close to worth it even if the course was a hit. The platform takes about 2/3rds of your revenue

> Sales that do not occur through an instructor promotion: instructors receive 37% of the revenue for any Udemy sales

(Instructor promotion means the student entered a coupon code provided by the instructor via that instructors own off-site marketing)

https://support.udemy.com/hc/en-us/articles/229605008-Instru...

[altdataseller]

1/3 of a big basket is still better than 100% of a small one. Udemy does help with visibility, and if you rank high for certain keywords, it could be worth it. You don’t exactly need to do more work for every new subscriber you get too

[gentleman11]

If you look at top course makers, you can see how many copies they sold and estimate their income. If the course takes more than a few months to create, they’re often making far less than they would just working the job that uses those skills. This makes it financially non-feasible for 99% of people to create courses full time unless you have downtime and no other income opportunity

Also, when people are outraged by the 30% App Store taxes, why is 63% acceptable? That’s insane

The entire gig economy works like this: almost nobody can live off of it but the platforms push people to try while getting rich themselves