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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 nsp »

Felix21 wrote: post #15

WOW! I made it to the front page. Okay so I posted it yesterday and went to bed. Thank you all for your support an feedback. When Udemy decided to start charging 50% of every sale, I needed another way to sell my Online Courses. I looked at a few self-hosted Online Course platforms, but they all wanted a monthly fee + transaction fees, which I think is excessive. So I started working on Coursify. With Coursify, you c…

Is this your project as well? https://medium.com/@sergiojota/codeweekend-review-nigerian-s...

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

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Post by Felix21 »

Felix21 wrote: post #15

WOW! I made it to the front page. Okay so I posted it yesterday and went to bed. Thank you all for your support an feedback. When Udemy decided to start charging 50% of every sale, I needed another way to sell my Online Courses. I looked at a few self-hosted Online Course platforms, but they all wanted a monthly fee + transaction fees, which I think is excessive. So I started working on Coursify. With Coursify, you c…

Yeah 2 years ago. I decided to stop commenting on that but yeah that's just one side of that story

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

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Post by Felix21 »

Felix21 wrote: post #52
Felix21 wrote: post #15

WOW! I made it to the front page. Okay so I posted it yesterday and went to bed. Thank you all for your support an feedback. When Udemy decided to start charging 50% of every sale, I needed another way to sell my Online Courses. I looked at a few self-hosted Online Course platforms, but they all wanted a monthly fee + transaction fees, which I think is excessive. So I started working on Coursify. With Coursify, you c…

Yeah 2 years ago. I decided to stop commenting on that but yeah that's just one side of that story

It seems the fedora team really wants to do what they can to discredit my project. Ah well

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

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Post by rbonhardt »

Felix21 wrote: post #53
Felix21 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah 2 years ago. I decided to stop commenting on that but yeah that's just one side of that story

It seems the fedora team really wants to do what they can to discredit my project. Ah well

Or highlight your tendency to copy others' work

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

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Post by rbonhardt »

imaginenore wrote: post #48
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.

Looks like it goes deeper than that considering his onedayrails.com landing page is the same design, sequence and structure as the default Fedora landing page as well as the internal lessons experience and design

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

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Post by allworknoplay »

kyleknighted wrote: post #50
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.

The obvious similarities are throughout the design, including the entirety of the course sales pages, the lecture view, specific iconography, etc.

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

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Post by sergioschuler »

nsp wrote: post #51
Felix21 wrote: post #15

WOW! I made it to the front page. Okay so I posted it yesterday and went to bed. Thank you all for your support an feedback. When Udemy decided to start charging 50% of every sale, I needed another way to sell my Online Courses. I looked at a few self-hosted Online Course platforms, but they all wanted a monthly fee + transaction fees, which I think is excessive. So I started working on Coursify. With Coursify, you c…

Is this your project as well? https://medium.com/@sergiojota/codeweekend-review-nigerian-s...

I wrote the article on Medium. I was in contact with 2-3 ex-students of that course. None of them received refunds several months after my article (I imagine I received the refund because I started the "movement").

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

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Post by flashman »

Is your target market individual education entrepreneurs and small teams, or do you have plans to offer this product to universities? The reason I'm asking is because many colleges would spend money on a lightweight course builder that hooked back into their existing learning management system, especially if it gives them flexibility to develop their own courseware, or hosts it for them.

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

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Post by corobo »

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 )

To be fair if it comes to pinching things your name seems familiar. I'm guessing you went with usefedora.com as getfedora.com was taken? :)

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

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Post by corobo »

allworknoplay wrote: post #56
kyleknighted wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The obvious similarities are throughout the design, including the entirety of the course sales pages, the lecture view, specific iconography, etc.

Both sites just look like a customized bootstrap theme to me
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