Just launched my online learning startup (3 years solo indie hacking)

What it does

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hello everyone, I just launched my bootstrapped (no funding) online learning startup, after 3 years of solo development part-time (2 to 3 days a week) - https://onlinecoursehost.com I would love for you guys to go through the landing page and give me your feedback on the page itself, the idea, the pricing model, any feedback would be much appreciated. About the product, it's an online course hosting platform. Online instructors upload their video courses, integrate with Stripe, set a price, create a course landing page and website home page (there is a website builder component to it), maybe create some discounts and start selling courses. The main added value is that the user experience is better than usual, here is an example of the course player where students can navigate through the course, search for answers and ask questions - https://tests.onlinecoursehost.com/courses/introduction-to-javascript/1/lessons/1 Besides that, the price is much lower than usual. Normally, it takes about $100 a month in order to get an equivalent set of features, while in our platform you can start for free in the growth plan (5% fees on any sales made, no recurring charges). Then later you can upgrade to a subscription which costs less than half of what is available elsewhere. The target audience are online instructors, which create video courses on an educational topic, with or without a pre-existing audience. It's tough for instructors just starting out until they can become profitable, so the goal is to give them all the information that they need for free, plus a growth plan to get things started. Let me know what you think of the idea, and if you have any suggestions or noticed something wrong with the business model, the page, etc. In general, I would love to hear your thoughts on this project. Thanks & Regards

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