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David

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I'm 14 and built a course tracker because Udemy's dashboard is not good enough

I'm 14, in 9th grade, and I have a confession: I've bought way too many online courses.

Udemy sales are dangerous. "$9.99? That's basically free!" Next thing you know, you have 10

  • courses and no idea which ones you've actually watched.

The Problem

Udemy's "My Learning" page is basically designed to make you feel bad about yourself. Just a massive list of courses staring at you with their 0% progress bars. No way to organize them. No way to prioritize. Just guilt.

And it gets worse when you're learning from multiple platforms - Coursera, YouTube playlists, freeCodeCamp, random tutorials you bookmarked. Everything is scattered.

So I Built Something

I got frustrated enough that I started building CourseBound - a simple dashboard to track all your courses in one place.

The idea is simple:

  • Add courses from any platform
  • Track your progress
  • Actually see what you should focus on next

I built it using AI tools (Claude, Cursor) because honestly, I don't know everything about web dev yet. But that's kind of the point - I'm learning by building.

It's Free

I'm not trying to sell anything. The site is completely free. I just want feedback from people who have the same problem I do.

If you've got a graveyard of unfinished courses, try it out: coursebound.org

Would love to hear what features would actually help you finish courses instead of just collecting them.


What's your unfinished course count? I'll go first: 34 😅

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