Courses

Courses, Cohorts & Skill Platforms

High-signal courses and cohorts that teach real solopreneur skills. No generic business fluff.

LearnWorlds

Course platform built around AI-assisted course and assessment creation, with a flat $5 per-enrollment fee on its entry plan instead of a percentage cut.

CoursesStarter $24/mo annual ($29/mo monthly) plus $5 per paid enrollment; Pro Trainer $79/mo annual ($99/mo monthly), no transaction fee; Learning Center $249/mo annual ($299/mo monthly), no transaction fee; Corporate by quote; 30-day free trial on every plan
  • course-platform
  • digital-products
  • assessments

Thinkific

Course and coaching platform charging only the 2.9% payment-processing fee on every tier, no added per-sale cut like rivals charge on entry plans.

CoursesBasic $40/mo annual ($54/mo monthly); Start $82/mo annual ($109/mo); Grow $164/mo annual ($219/mo); Plus by quote; 2.9% fee via Thinkific Payments, no separate platform cut; 30-day trial, no free plan
  • course-platform
  • coaching
  • community

Teachable

Course-hosting platform for online courses, coaching, memberships and digital downloads, owned by Hotmart since a 2020 acquisition.

CoursesStarter $39/mo ($29/mo billed annually), 7.5% transaction fee; Builder $89/mo ($69/mo annually), 0% fee; Growth $189/mo ($139/mo annually), 0% fee; Custom tier by quote
  • course-platform
  • coaching
  • digital-products

Skool

Community and course platform built around gamified levels and leaderboards, with Hobby at $9/mo (10% fee) or Pro at $99/mo (2.9% fee) and a 14-day trial.

CoursesHobby $9/mo, 10% transaction fee; Pro $99/mo, 2.9% fee; both unlimited members and courses, 14-day trial, card required at signup
  • community
  • gamification
  • course-platform

30x500 Academy

Amy Hoy and Alex Hillman's self-paced course on researching what an audience will pay for before building anything, sold in batches a few times a year.

Courses$1,999 one-time, or 6 monthly payments of $399 ($2,394 total); enrollment opens in batches around January, April, July and October, not continuously
  • self-paced
  • audience
  • solopreneur

Part-Time YouTuber Academy

Ali Abdaal's tiered course on building a YouTube channel part time, from a $1 taster module up to a $4,995 tier with weekly live coaching.

CoursesFoundations $1; Academy $995 (or 3 payments of $365); Accelerator $4,995; refund only if you complete 100% of the course within 30 days
  • youtube
  • video
  • community

The LinkedIn Operating System

Justin Welsh's self-paced course on building an audience and a sales pipeline on LinkedIn, 25 lessons at a list price that almost nobody actually pays.

Courses$200 list price; the course's own FAQ cites $99 'for a limited time,' one checkout link on the same page shows $79, and reviewers outside the US report paying as little as $75
  • linkedin
  • self-paced
  • lifetime-access

Maven

A marketplace for live cohort courses that takes 10% of every sale and pushes instructors toward an $800 to $2,450 price band.

Courses10% platform fee + Stripe processing (~2.9% + $0.30) on every paid enrollment; $200 platform minimum per course, most cohorts priced $800-$2,450
  • cohort-based
  • marketplace
  • live-instruction

Ship 30 for 30

A self-paced 30-day challenge to build a daily writing habit by publishing one short essay under 250 words every day for a month.

Courses$350 one-time, lifetime access
  • writing
  • habit
  • self-paced

Small Bets

A one-time payment for lifetime access to 54 recorded classes from working solopreneurs, plus a chat community of 7,735 members.

CoursesOne-time: $450 list, $180 via the site's current discount
  • community
  • lifetime-access
  • solopreneur