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Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform

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Re: Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform

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Post by conradwa »

imaginenore wrote: post #36
allworknoplay wrote: post #35

Thanks for cloning my company's product, we're flattered. http://usefedora.com (We're the ones who power courses like http://bitfountain.io )

Except yours isn't free. Your "free" tier costs $1 + 10% per transaction, which is ridiculously expensive. Even Paypal doesn't rip me off that bad.

We actually drop the transaction fee once you're actually making money. Check it out: usefedora.com/pricing.

To your point, if there's a free tier with a transaction fee, doesn't that mean it's totally free to use? We handle all the hosting for you, so it's a little misleading to call this system free.

With Fedora, we make money when you do - which is an amazing alignment of incentives if you ask me. This really helps people who are just starting out and want to use a robust product. Right now folks using Fedora teach near 400,000 students in any language you can imagine.

Disclaimer, I Co-Founded Fedora and you have any questions, feel free to reach out conrad@usefedora.com.

Re: Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform

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Post by chrisrxth »

imaginenore wrote: post #36
allworknoplay wrote: post #35

Thanks for cloning my company's product, we're flattered. http://usefedora.com (We're the ones who power courses like http://bitfountain.io )

Except yours isn't free. Your "free" tier costs $1 + 10% per transaction, which is ridiculously expensive. Even Paypal doesn't rip me off that bad.

Sure there are differences. It's still a blatant clone. OP could have at least created his own UI.

Re: Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform

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Post by Felix21 »

ankurfedora wrote: post #38

Felix, I'm the founder of http://usefedora.com -- a product you are intimately familiar with. Love the effort and open source contribution -- but definitely put off by stealing our UI/UX almost verbatim (example site built with our tool: http://bitfountain.io/courses/iwatch-course http://www.onedayrails.com/ ) While it is incredibly flattering for a small startup like ours to have an open-source derivative, stealing…

Hi Ankur,

I very much didn't intend to offend you, copy you or cause you to be upset.

That homepage design is based on what Udemy looked like before their update and that's why I felt okay to use it as a starting point.

That said, I'll update the homepage for the course today with a new design as a gesture of good faith.

I think the platform itself, not the homepage/sales page is what the people using coursify like. I suspect many of them won't even use that homepage. It's just a starting point.

Again I'm trying to make friends not enemies. Hope I didn't offend you.

Felix

Happy Easter.

Re: Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform

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Post by funkaster »

great job! it looks like a good replacement for people trying to juggle with the complexity of a software like moodle. I'm also interesting in knowing if it will support some type of assessment, because it looks like so far it's only a paywall for content. Do you have plans to add support for any type of assessment?

Re: Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform

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Post by Felix21 »

funkaster wrote: post #44

great job! it looks like a good replacement for people trying to juggle with the complexity of a software like moodle. I'm also interesting in knowing if it will support some type of assessment, because it looks like so far it's only a paywall for content. Do you have plans to add support for any type of assessment?

I'm already working on quizzes. I still need to refactor the current code base though so that feature is at least two weeks out.

The multi course feature is already working as well and once I clean the code up, I'll update the code base on GitHub.

Do you have any other type of assessment in mind?

Re: Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform

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Post by chrisrxth »

ankurfedora wrote: post #38

Felix, I'm the founder of http://usefedora.com -- a product you are intimately familiar with. Love the effort and open source contribution -- but definitely put off by stealing our UI/UX almost verbatim (example site built with our tool: http://bitfountain.io/courses/iwatch-course http://www.onedayrails.com/ ) While it is incredibly flattering for a small startup like ours to have an open-source derivative, stealing…

I second Ankur's thoughts here. We've put a lot of time and energy into making our user experience simple and beautiful and while we take it as a compliment that you liked it enough to use our design, we would appreciate it if you came up with your own original design as to differentiate from us.

We're not just a random online education platform that popped up out of the blue - we're real people working very hard to build a quality product.

Re: Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform

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Post by ankurfedora »

Felix21 wrote: post #43
ankurfedora wrote: post #38

Felix, I'm the founder of http://usefedora.com -- a product you are intimately familiar with. Love the effort and open source contribution -- but definitely put off by stealing our UI/UX almost verbatim (example site built with our tool: http://bitfountain.io/courses/iwatch-course http://www.onedayrails.com/ ) While it is incredibly flattering for a small startup like ours to have an open-source derivative, stealing…

Hi Ankur, I very much didn't intend to offend you, copy you or cause you to be upset. That homepage design is based on what Udemy looked like before their update and that's why I felt okay to use it as a starting point. That said, I'll update the homepage for the course today with a new design as a gesture of good faith. I think the platform itself, not the homepage/sales page is what the people using coursify like.…

Thank you, appreciate the response and the new design.

Keep me updated with future developments (ankur@usefedora.com) and maybe we can work together in the future.

Re: Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform

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Post by imaginenore »

ankurfedora wrote: post #38

Felix, I'm the founder of http://usefedora.com -- a product you are intimately familiar with. Love the effort and open source contribution -- but definitely put off by stealing our UI/UX almost verbatim (example site built with our tool: http://bitfountain.io/courses/iwatch-course http://www.onedayrails.com/ ) While it is incredibly flattering for a small startup like ours to have an open-source derivative, stealing…

What exactly is he stealing? Big picture at the top followed by some text/testimonials? That's like every second modern landing page these days.

Re: Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform

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Post by Felix21 »

ankurfedora wrote: post #47
Felix21 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi Ankur, I very much didn't intend to offend you, copy you or cause you to be upset. That homepage design is based on what Udemy looked like before their update and that's why I felt okay to use it as a starting point. That said, I'll update the homepage for the course today with a new design as a gesture of good faith. I think the platform itself, not the homepage/sales page is what the people using coursify like.…

Thank you, appreciate the response and the new design. Keep me updated with future developments (ankur@usefedora.com) and maybe we can work together in the future.

Hopefully we can.

I'll let you know when the new design is up. I've already coded most of it.

Re: Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform

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Post by kyleknighted »

ankurfedora wrote: post #38

Felix, I'm the founder of http://usefedora.com -- a product you are intimately familiar with. Love the effort and open source contribution -- but definitely put off by stealing our UI/UX almost verbatim (example site built with our tool: http://bitfountain.io/courses/iwatch-course http://www.onedayrails.com/ ) While it is incredibly flattering for a small startup like ours to have an open-source derivative, stealing…

I didn't realize you owned the exclusive use of the large leaderboard images and rounded buttons design patterns. I'm sure there are loads of people out there profiting off of your patented design that you should probably be harassing as well.

Good thing http://getbootstrap.com/ looks nothing at all like "your" design.

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