Content creation
Shoot and edit Reels that actually get watched
by Founding creator
24 lessons · 6h$39
Built across Asia
Learn from the creators you already follow
Your favourite creators know things worth learning. Sikhaku is where they teach it properly — real courses, on your phone, downloadable for the commute. The platform is free; you pay only when a creator charges for their course.
- Free to join
- Pay once, keep forever
- Works offline
Subjects the founding cohort is teaching first
- Content creation
- Video editing
- Photography
- Digital marketing
- Spoken English
- Graphic design
- Freelancing
- Music production
Millions of people are worth learning from. Most of them are still selling what they know through a chat message and a Drive link.
This is the thing we are trying to beat
Where do you come in?
Two sides of the same platform
Sikhaku only works if both sides get a genuinely better deal than they have today. Here is what each one actually gets.
I want to learn
Buy once. Keep it for good.
Real courses from creators you already trust, on the device you actually use, working whether or not you have signal.
- Free preview lessons on every single course
- Download lessons and study without internet
- No subscription — you buy courses, not a plan
- One library across every creator you learn from
I want to teach
Turn an audience into income.
Publish what you already know. We handle payments, video, protection, tax and payouts — the work that stops most courses from ever launching.
- Keep 100% of what you sell — we take no commission
- No app store commission, because checkout is on the web
- Your own branded storefront and handle
- Analytics showing exactly where students drop off
For students
What learning here actually feels like
Three things a Drive link has never given you. Pick whichever one you care about.
Find people worth learning from
Browse by subject or arrive from a creator’s bio link. Either way you land on real teaching, not a sales page.
- Every course has free preview lessons — decide on the material
- Full syllabus and total length shown before you pay
- Follow a creator and hear about their next course directly
What makes it different
Built for how people actually learn here
Mobile-first, offline-capable and priced for this market — not adapted from something designed somewhere else.
100%
Offline is the whole point
Lessons download to the device and play with no connection. Designed on a mid-range Android over 4G, because that is what most of the world is actually holding.
Local payments
Your usual wallet, mobile banking or a card, with a proper invoice every time. No international card, no failed transaction.
Pay once, own it
No subscription to browse and none to keep what you bought. Updates the creator publishes later are included.
Creators keep their audience
A branded storefront, a followable profile, and no competing course anywhere near their pages.
Protected content
DRM and per-student watermarks, so good creators are willing to publish their real material.
Honest refunds
A stated window and a button, not an argument in someone’s DMs.
100%
Of every sale goes to the creator
The person who taught it should keep the money
Sikhaku takes no commission and charges no monthly fee. The creator sets the price and keeps it — we do not take a percentage of the sale, and we never take a cut of tax. Video hosting, DRM and payouts are costs the platform carries, not deductions from the creator.
- Course price
- $49
- Sikhaku commission
- $0
- Hosting and bandwidth
- $0
- Creator keeps
- $49
For creators
From recording to first sale
Recording is the hard part. Everything after it is our job, and the founding cohort is walked through it by a person.
- 01
Upload once
Drop in your video from the browser. Transcoding, streaming, encryption and delivery all happen without you configuring anything.
- 02
Build your storefront
Your banner, your bio, your accent colour and a handle you can put in your bio link. It looks like your brand, because it is.
- 03
Set your price
You choose the number, any coupons, and which lessons are free to preview. We never discount your work without asking.
- 04
Publish and get paid
We take the payment, issue the invoice, and pay you on a schedule with a statement every time. We keep none of it.
The honest comparison
Sikhaku versus a Drive link and a QR code
Not against Udemy — against what selling a course actually looks like for most creators today.
| Drive link + QR code | Sikhaku | |
|---|---|---|
| Delivery | A shared folder anyone can forward | DRM video, watermarked per student |
| Payment | A screenshot you verify by hand | Wallet, bank or card, reconciled automatically |
| Invoices | None | A proper invoice on every sale |
| Offline access | Only if they download the file — and keep it | Encrypted download inside the app |
| Progress tracking | You have no idea | Per-lesson drop-off and completion |
| Refunds | An argument in your DMs | A policy, a button, and a ledger entry |
| Repeat sales | Start from zero every launch | Followers get notified when you publish |
What we are building toward
Sikhaku is pre-launch. These are the targets we hold ourselves to in year one — not results we are claiming.
0%Revenue share to creatorsin the founding year
0%Course completion targetindustry average is ~13%
0App store commissionbecause checkout is on the web
0hCreator support responseour commitment
Founding creators
We are onboarding the first cohort by hand
Sikhaku launches narrow and deep rather than broad and empty. These are the subjects opening first — apply if this is what you teach.
CCVideo & social
Content creation
Applications open
DMBusiness
Digital marketing
Applications open
SELanguage
Spoken English
Applications open
DECreative
Design & editing
Applications open
Coming at launch
The kind of courses you will find
Examples of what the founding cohort is preparing. Real listings appear as each course is published and reviewed.
Marketing
Instagram growth for small businesses
by Founding creator
18 lessons · 4h$29
Language
Speak English confidently at work
by Founding creator
32 lessons · 9h$49
Business
Freelancing: finding your first international client
by Founding creator
20 lessons · 5h$45
Design
Photoshop for people who are not designers
by Founding creator
26 lessons · 7h$35
Music
Music production on a laptop
by Founding creator
30 lessons · 11h$59
Your content stays yours
You license it to us to sell. Unpublish or leave whenever you want.
Students belong to Sikhaku
And you see every student who buys from you, with what they bought.
Payouts on a schedule
Every rupee tracked in an append-only ledger you can audit.
Education only
We review what gets published. This is a learning platform, not a marketplace for anything.
From the blog
Guides for creators and learners
What we are learning about selling and teaching online, written down as we go.
For creators7 min read
How much should you charge for your first course?
A pricing framework built around what your own audience actually pays, not a number converted from somewhere else.
Read more →For creators5 min read
Why your course completion rate matters more than your sales
Students who finish come back and buy again. Students who do not, ask for refunds.
Read more →For students4 min read
Learning on a phone: what actually works
Short lessons, downloadable video, and why studying on a commute beats studying at a desk.
Read more →Questions
Things people ask us
If your question is not here, the help centre goes deeper — or just email us.
What is Sikhaku?
Sikhaku is a marketplace where creators sell the courses they teach, and students buy and study them in one app. One account gives you access to every creator on the platform, and everything you buy stays yours.
How much does a course cost?
Creators set their own prices, so it varies. Most sit between $19 and $99 for a full course. You pay once and keep lifetime access — there is no subscription to browse or to keep what you bought.
Can I watch lessons without internet?
Yes. Every lesson in a course you own can be downloaded to your phone and watched offline. This is the main reason students prefer the app to a website, and it works on both Android and iPhone.
How do I pay?
However you already pay — your usual wallet, mobile or internet banking, or a card. Checkout happens on sikhaku.com and the app unlocks what you own, which keeps app store commission out of the price. Sikhaku itself is free, so the only money you pay is the creator’s price.
I already sell courses on my own website. Why move?
You do not have to move — many creators run both. What Sikhaku adds is an app your students can download lessons in, payments and invoices handled for you, and analytics showing exactly which lesson people stop watching.
Who owns the content I upload?
You do. You license it to Sikhaku to sell on your behalf, and you can unpublish or leave at any time. Your courses are yours.
Start learning, or start teaching
Browsing is free and every course has lessons you can watch before you buy. Creators can apply to the founding cohort today.
No subscription. No card required to browse.