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by dcatx 1336 days ago
I absolutely love this.

I wrote a “book” (really a 30,000ish word tutorial) on Rails development earlier this year and I hated the idea of publishing it as a static PDF so I built a web app just to host the book’s content and change log, along with validating license keys/authenticating users.

I’ve never found video courses to be useful for me - I do much, much better with written word that I can move through at a comfortable pace. I’m glad to see tools coming to make text-based courses easier to build

Will give this a try and see how my book content translates over.

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I created Upload Academy for this reason. We're still building the platform and our first course is nearly complete: https://cloudopslevelone.upload.academy (currently freely available.) Our focus is helping people break into IT with a highly focused roadmap and course materials designed specifically for the goal.

I've never understood the obsession with video libraries with 50,000,000 hours of video content.

Thank you! Email me if you run into any problems or want any advice/review - I'm here to help :) - Jim, jameshfisher@gmail.com