Prolaud started with live teaching because that's what we were doing ourselves. Recorded courses came second.
My guess at the trade-off: live gets better completion and lets you charge more, but it eats your evenings. Recorded scales, but people buy it and never open it.
Tell me where I'm wrong. If you do both, what's the split for you right now? And if you had to drop one, which goes?
Prolaud goes live on Product Hunt on 6 October. Before that I'd like a few honest eyes on it.
prolaud.com is open. If you have two minutes, open it cold and tell me the first thing that made you hesitate. A word you didn't get, a page that loaded slowly, a price that felt off. Small stuff counts.
I'll reply to every comment and fix what I can before Tuesday.
Not rhetorical. I am trying to decide what we build next and I would rather ask than guess.
Context so you know my bias: I am building Prolaud, a course platform with the live classroom inside it. We launch here on 6 October.
Why I am asking. We started this because we were running classes with four tools taped together. A video tool for the class, payment links pasted into WhatsApp, a Google Sheet for who had actually paid, a design tool for the certificate at the end. Every month a student's name fell through the gap between two of them.
So if you teach anything online: which tool annoys you most, and what would have to be true for you to stop using it?
Prolaud puts the live classroom inside the course platform. Teach the class, sell the course from a storefront on your own domain, and keep it all on one student record. Degrees, proctored exams and certificates switch on as plugins. 0% commission.