Show HN: Fedora – Shopify for Education

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Hey guys, I'm the founder of Fedora and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.

We were teaching on Udemy but found it really hard to scale a business without having ownership of our users so we built Fedora.

Version 0.1 was literally video hosting, a Stripe integration and a legit Mixpanel integration.

But over the next few months, the product evolved quite considerably. First came progress tracking to make it more like an actual school. We then innovated a bunch of marketing and payments as we added the ability to create course bundles, charge users subscriptions on either a single course or the entire site, an in-built affiliate program, native integrations with more third party tools and a pretty sweet coupon code engine.

Right now, we have about 100 schools using it in private beta and today is the first day that absolutely anyone can sign up to create a school.

Looks interesting. I can see why you'd want to own your students/users to customize an experience for them, and with that be able to better monetize them. Who are the target users you're focused on bringing in? Do you think they'd be able to handle the marketing effort themselves, as opposed to say Udemy who's doing a part of this for you?

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