Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

CourseNest is an online platform that facilitates weekly discussions for massive open online courses (MOOCs). Launched in 2014, it enables students enrolled in MOOCs to engage in structured weekly conversations with… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. CourseNest – Online Weekly Discussion for MOOCs launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Coursenest▲114

   Discover the top cohort based courses, for free

   2021 · its alternatives →

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   Courseroot▲540

   Biggest online course database on the web

   2018 · courseroot.com · its alternatives →

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   Sutra▲1,004

   Create conversational courses that actually get completed

   2024 · sutra.co · its alternatives →

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   Find a Study Buddy for your MOOC▲217

   2018 · stacks.courses · its alternatives →

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   CoursePlanet▲170

   Up-skilling platform for developers and designers

   2019 · its alternatives →

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   Coursemate – connect with other self learners▲283

   Hey Hacker News! My name is Collin, 18 years old and doing a gap year after finishing high school last year. This was my first real project after starting to learn web development around 5 months ago. I came up with this idea as it was a real pain for me to find other people from my country and especially my age, learning and taking online courses about the same stuff online. Lots of these online courses include their own discord communities and forums, but I still found it very hard to connect with other people in there. Thats why I built Coursemate. I would love to get your feedback on it!…

   2023 · coursem8.com · its alternatives →

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   Teache▲480

   Learn something new today

   2024 · teache.co · its alternatives →

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   Classroomies▲148

   Watch Stanford CS & Startup lectures together

   2018 · classroomies.com · its alternatives →

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   MOOC Hunt▲116

   Hunt the best online courses, daily.

   2015 · its alternatives →

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    StartupClass.co▲300

    YC's How to Start a Startup packaged as an online course

    2014 · startupclass.co · its alternatives →

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    Cohort-Based Courses by Pathwright▲140

    Create community courses for unlonely learning

    2021 · pathwright.com · its alternatives →

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    Lect.io▲60

    MOOCs contextualized comments for lectures.

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Course Architect▲174

    Make your next course a next level course

    2022 · getcoursearchitect.com · its alternatives →

14. 14AC
    A crowd-sourced MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)▲15

    2012 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →

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    notclass▲234

    I've been working on this for a few days now. The goal is to create a library of the best free educational content available and to build personalised learning paths for each user, using only free resources and at no cost to the user. Let me know what you think.

    2025 · notclass.com · its alternatives →

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    Moocable – find people studying the same online course/book▲161

    Hey, everyone I made a website that lets you find study partners/groups based on the specific course/book you are studying. It's 100% free + no registration required. Why: I know there are many subreddits for finding study partners. But, one of the biggest reasons we can't find the right partner/group is lack of clarity. Most posts that I read on Reddit were something like: "I'm interested in programming. Let's study Python together..." - That's not a clear goal. But, when you say "Let's study the Python for Everybody course on Coursera. I'm from Mumbai, India, and I'm looking…

    2024 · moocable.com · its alternatives →

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    LanguaTalk▲68

    Marketplace platform for online language tutoring

    2021 · languatalk.com · its alternatives →

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    CourseHub▲80

    Spend less time searching, more time researching

    2021 · coursehub.app · its alternatives →

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    CourseNest▲2

    AI career platform to learn, practice, and get hired

    Jun 2026 · coursenest.app · its alternatives →

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    Edunin▲96

    Open-source problem-solving platform to learn how to learn

    2023 · edunin.notion.site · its alternatives →

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    Curated List of Online Learning▲43

    Hi HN, The discussion pops up regularly about which MOOCs and courses to take so I figured I'd start a curated list of recommendations. It's by no means exhaustive (and it's just the ones I know) and is quite broad. If you had any suggestions, feel free to create a PR or Issue, or even respond to this post and I will add it. I'd love to be able to capture quality somehow, but not sure of the way to go about that just yet. https://github.com/tombasche/professional-development

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    CoursePilot▲96

    A coding bootcamp review platform and community

    2023 · coursepilot.co · its alternatives →

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    Course Planet 2.0▲113

    Up-skilling platform for Developers, Designers, and PMs

    2020 · its alternatives →

24. 24AE
    An e-course creator for hobbyists my wife and I built▲62

    2012 · coursecraft.net · its alternatives →

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