For creators7 min read
How much should you charge for your first course?
A pricing framework built around what your own audience actually pays, rather than converting someone else’s price and hoping.
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What we are learning, written down
Guides for creators selling courses and students learning from them — plus honest notes on building this platform.
What we write about
- Pricing
- Completion rates
- Piracy
- Payments
- Audience building
- Course structure
- Analytics
- Launching
For creators
Selling and teaching
Practical guides based on what actually works for creators in this market.
For creators5 min read
Why completion rate matters more than sales
Students who finish come back and buy again. Students who do not, ask for refunds and tell their friends.
Read more →For students4 min read
Learning on a phone: what actually works
Short lessons, downloadable video, and why studying on a commute beats waiting for a free evening that never comes.
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What you will find here
Pricing and money
What to charge, how tax works where you are, and what actually reaches your account.
Course craft
Structure, lesson length, and the things that make people finish.
Audience
Turning followers into students without burning the trust you built.
Protection
Piracy, DRM, watermarking, and what is realistic to expect.
Learning well
For students: how to actually finish a course you paid for.
Behind the build
Decisions we made building Sikhaku, including the ones we got wrong.
Behind the build
How Sikhaku is being made
Engineering and product decisions, explained with the reasoning rather than the highlight reel.
For creators6 min read
Your course will be pirated. Here is what to do about it.
DRM, watermarking, and the uncomfortable truth that no protection is perfect — but traceability changes behaviour.
Read more →Behind the build5 min read
Why we sell on the web instead of in the app
A 30% store commission is the difference between a viable business and a hobby. The arithmetic, in full.
Read more →Behind the build8 min read
What we learned onboarding our first creators
Everything that confused them, everything we rebuilt, and the objections we had not anticipated.
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