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Why Sofware Developers should create online courses as a side hustle?

javinpaul on September 21, 2019

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gabrielmosermick

Great article. It think launching online courses is really the best way to grow your personal brand as a programmer (or any other skill).
There's a really nice platform called GuideSeed.com which helps you create your online school with only your brand on your sales page and student's online campus). It also helps you with marketing and other sales stuff.

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Thanks @gabrielmosermick . I didn't know about that platform, do you mind to share more, I mean what is the difference between this and Teachable/Thinkific? and why one choose that one over more established platforms?

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David MM👨🏻‍💻

Thanks for this post. I have in mind to start a side hustle in mid-2020 by teaching on 1-to-1, but I'm going to add creating courses when I have downtime.

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I have done teaching 1-to-1 and I have also taken classroom, they are great if you have a passion for teaching but they don't scale well. If you put the same amount of time and energy, you can make bigger impact on online courses because of its one-to-many model. That's the reason I am suggesting everyone in my circle work on it.

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Yeah, and I agree with that. But if someone starts doing Udemy courses, how much do you get per course? Because I assume no one is going to pay other than the 10$/€ price. And you have to produce a top-notch course.

I'm looking at the Udemy's Instructor Revenue Share and you get 97% of your sale if the student uses your code, but just 50% of the sale if it is purchased through their sale.

To the one with tens of thousands yes, it is worth. But what about the smaller ones?

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hello @david you are right but Udemy's strength is their marketing, you will sell more there than any other platform. Though, I don't suggest anyone with a longer-term view to solely depend on that. It's always better to create your own online course website using Teachable or Thinkific, you will not only earn more in the long term but also retain your students, which will be your real asset. The best is to start with your own school and leverage Udemy's power to create your brand by putting one of your courses there.

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Gift Egwuenu • Edited

This is so helpful. Already planning to start creating online courses and only the thought of it is so overwhelming but I'm excited to see how it turns out.

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javinpaul

Hello @Gift, that's great, good decision. I agree with you, it's definitely tough, especially your first course, that's why being a part of community like Teachable help. You constantly get motivation and push like they did a Teachable Creator Challenge last summer. Now they are doing a Teachable Live, which is a 3-day free event, where you'll get a chance to learn from 20+ speakers who have already created a successful course. If you are serious, I suggest you join that event, you will make a lot of friends and an expert community, which will help you later on course creation and marketing.

All the best in your journey and do keep in touch.

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Brad Richardson

I'm actually getting pretty close to finishing an online course. Fortran for Beginners. I'd love to get some feedback and help promoting it when I'm done.

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javinpaul

That's great Brad, feel free to ask if we can be any help.

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Bredillet Thomas

The free way for sell online course easily is formator.io (french website)