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Re: Launch HN: Epihub (YC S20) – Shopify for teaching online

#21

Would've been super useful if you mentioned what countries you currently support. I went to sign up and closed the tab feeling disappointed.

Yeah we're currently limited by Stripe Express, but we'll probably look to expand relatively soon. We've been looking at RazorPay for India or even enabling Stripe Standard accounts across the board. Any particular countries you're looking for?

Re: Launch HN: Epihub (YC S20) – Shopify for teaching online

#22

As a former provider on Helpouts ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Helpouts ) who was sad to see it go, I am excited to see more products like this. Good luck!

I’m always amazed by the sheer number of products Google has built and sunset. I didn’t actually know about this, but it sent me down a rabbit hole. What kind of work was most popular on Helpouts?

Re: Launch HN: Epihub (YC S20) – Shopify for teaching online

#23

Awesome demo video, really excited to see where this goes! Are there any use cases that people complain zoom is insufficient for?

Thank you for the kinds words, and so far, so happy with Zoom! But if you're using Google Meet, for example, and would like to stick with that system, you can also "Add Google Meet video conferencing" to Epihub appointments via our Google Calendar integration.

Re: Launch HN: Epihub (YC S20) – Shopify for teaching online

#24
Congrats on the launch. As a fellow elixir enthusiast I wanted to say nice work integrating the client side and pulling this together, you are doing a ton of stuff all at once. I don’t have a use case right now but still will poke around to see what you have built!

Re: Launch HN: Epihub (YC S20) – Shopify for teaching online

#25
post #21

Would've been super useful if you mentioned what countries you currently support. I went to sign up and closed the tab feeling disappointed.

Yeah we're currently limited by Stripe Express, but we'll probably look to expand relatively soon. We've been looking at RazorPay for India or even enabling Stripe Standard accounts across the board. Any particular countries you're looking for?

Hope you're looking at South Africa! They're still waiting for stripe but I think this would do well there.

Re: Launch HN: Epihub (YC S20) – Shopify for teaching online

#26

Awesome demo video, really excited to see where this goes! Are there any use cases that people complain zoom is insufficient for?

Great question. We built the product originally to help us bring a tutoring business online as in-person instruction was impossible.

Again, these were businesses built around live instruction so the only option was video. Zoom was the one place where we opted for an integration as there’s simply no way we could build better video than Zoom given a limited (or unlimited) time frame.

We actually built tooling inside to pick locations for your classes and appointments, but so far they have rarely been used.

Next we had a bunch of tools from our first product in Epihub, but something we learned from talking to teachers and having built tools for instructors was that you really didn’t need too much. Teachers know how to teach so the best tooling isn’t something overly prescriptive, but something in a virtual classroom isomorphic to a real classroom like a virtual whiteboard.

Again, we’re really new, so we’re still learning.

Re: Launch HN: Epihub (YC S20) – Shopify for teaching online

#28

Congrats on the launch. As a fellow elixir enthusiast I wanted to say nice work integrating the client side and pulling this together, you are doing a ton of stuff all at once. I don’t have a use case right now but still will poke around to see what you have built!

Thank you, to be honest Abinsthe and Apollo go together incredibly well.

I think coming from Rails and switching out controllers for resolvers made adjusting to building SPAs far easier. I still think building routing on the client side feels strange, but it’s way easier when GraphQL just gives you one endpoint to hit and with Apollo you just query exactly what you need.

Re: Launch HN: Epihub (YC S20) – Shopify for teaching online

#30
post #28

Congrats on the launch. As a fellow elixir enthusiast I wanted to say nice work integrating the client side and pulling this together, you are doing a ton of stuff all at once. I don’t have a use case right now but still will poke around to see what you have built!

Thank you, to be honest Abinsthe and Apollo go together incredibly well. I think coming from Rails and switching out controllers for resolvers made adjusting to building SPAs far easier. I still think building routing on the client side feels strange, but it’s way easier when GraphQL just gives you one endpoint to hit and with Apollo you just query exactly what you need.

Yes, Abinsthe is quite incredible! I have used it with react and vue and had some success. However lately whenever liveview is the right fit I find myself fist pumping all over the place. Something magically about writing most of your code in elixir and only sprinkling JS when needed. Your site is very ui heavy so I imagine it needs to have a lot of js strictly client side so a SPA makes sense (I just find the mental overhead of having to deal with a js framework front end and a elixir backend tricky).
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