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Skillshare: An Honest Review of My Experience Launching a Coding Course
Tips
What did I learn from this situation?
1) Read everything carefully.
Ask any questions that are bothering you. Ask for an explanation if something is not clear enough.
Or anyone will be able to tell youâââYou misunderstood! (as it happened in my case)
Or you can overestimate an offer. Or you just didnât find any hidden terms (as it was in my case)
2) Teaching people is hard.
Creating a course from scratch is a hell of a process.
Surelyâââif you are working on something, that you never did before, it is hard. So any unusual activity will take more time and energy from you at the beginning. But by doing something new you will learn something new too.
3) Your situation is unique.
Unique for you. And nobody cares about it. And when you read about an average level, you need to understand when someone else is above an average level too. (Why didnât I remember that? I had âAâ in Maths logic. Maths is a bitch.)
4) Always make a quick turnaround.
Donât try to perfect your course the first time you do it. It will help you to review results and draw a conclusion: âContinue to do it or not.â
Do not spend a lot of time on course creation. Yes, this is my advice! Especially if it is your first course. You are LEARNING how to teach. And if you spend a week on it and didnât feel that you made good progress, then this is a big deal for you at this specific moment. Step back, calm down and split your course into 3Â parts.
When I developed my course I prepared and used slides. They helped me a lot. I used some HTML template with jQuery animations. But right now Github is full of different static website generators. And you can use/store your content in *.md format (Markdown format) and it will generate you a slideshow at build. And you can publish it on GitHub Pages and it will be online.
Should you spend time preparing detailed course exploration? Is creating a great âcourse detailsâ section a must-have?
No, I donât think so. I did, and still nothing.
You actually can see that content. I used it in order to create an article https://medium.com/quick-code/top-tutorials-to-learn-flexboxes-for-frontend-development-d6dfb2113b48
What do I want with these articles? What is my goal by sharing this story publicly?
- Calm down and move forward.
- If I didnât publish itâââIâll still be mad and thinking about it.
- It will be cool if I receive some feedback from their top managers, that operating a company.
Not just:
We are sorry to hear that your experience was bad and weâll make notes and will try to prevent it in the future.
Bullshit. I need or require an official online reply. And it needs to be the long copy.
When you write a letter you expect a letter in return. So when SS decides to replyâââI wouldâve preferred they do it publicly, instead of sending me links to ârulesâ. Itâs impersonal.
And add the big fucking bold line at the top of your terms:
We donât guarantee anything. You can have 0 results, and 0 promotion.
Did I tell you how Skillshare found me in the first place?
Because of my articles on Medium :)
There are only 3 publishers that Iâm part of:
- Groceristar (my own place) https://medium.com/groceristar
- QuickCode https://medium.com/quick-code
- HackerNoon https://hackernoon.com/
And I was a good lead for Skillshare:
- Iâm not working (have a lot of time)
- Iâm always interested to explore new things
And I was sold by fancy videos on the Homepage. Videos from Gary Vee and Robert Kiyosaki. It was a nice move from the marketing team. You know it would be like a dream to share the same stage with my influencers.
Do I compare myself with their Top Teachers, that make 30â50k?
Surely not.
I understand that they put a lot of time and effort into it.
But I actually donât want to be a soldier or a brick in the wall at just another company that created a website. I did that once before. I didnât like what IÂ got.
Did I hope to get $1000 in 12 months like this article claims?
As you seeâââI didnât create this number from my head, it was officially specified as an average.
Ha, no.
I hope that I donât make enemies among Skillshare team members. I donât want to be a bad guy here or to be banned from their website. I would lose all my possible future income (joke).
I donât think that this amount is possible. Itâs actually gone a few months ago (4 months). As a reader of this story, tell me, how much time should I wait? There are only â Â left.
I can wait. I have plenty of time and with this situation, Iâm distracted from building my own project.
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Thanks in advance.
Btw, if youâre interested in an unpaid internshipâââplease contact me. It will be a pleasure for me to teach you. Iâm an open-minded person and I would love to share what Iâve learned with you!
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