Hi guys, product looks great! Few questions:
- Does Forge allow experts to create their own custom content like Coursera, Treehouse, Ucacity, etc?
- What's in it for the experts?
- Can experts create their own subjects to teach or do you provide a set list of subjects that you need experts for?
- Can you use forge to teach within a team without an outside expert? Example: We have an expert of JavaScript at our company and want to teach our workforce JavaScript using our expert with your service
Thanks! 🎉
@codetheory Hi Tim, thanks very much for your questions!
- so you'll notice our UI is very different, like a messenger but instead of talking to a person it's a "goal" at present these are all customized but in future, experts will create their own goals that people can join. They'll also be able to fork goals from others experts. For example, I could fork John Mattone (Steve Jobs' coach course on leadership and teach it myself) .It's a really cool system. However, sessions will always be LIVE only unlike Coursera, etc..
- experts get paid, get to share their skills and possibly open up further business opps. In a sense, we want to be Airbnb for learning, where you can take your mind on an adventure with great teachers across the planet. That's kind of cool, no? Of our experts, many have signed up just for the joy of teaching.
- experts can create their own subjects. In fact, that's kind of the point. We want to be the most up to date learning platform and that'll only happen if experts decide what is relevant and worth teaching
- eventually we will support that but what we felt is that smaller teams can probably just use Slack or Skype. Our focus was bringing external skills and knowledge to create huge time savings.
On a totally separate note, Jack who hunted us, is an expert on our platform 😻
@schraderrr
- Wow, that sounds really cool, actually. Is that optional for experts to allow forking of their goals? Or is the point to be a shared learning experience?
- "Airbnb for learning" is an good analogy!
- That's a great way to create an expansive base of knowledge.
- Well, I'm glad you're thinking about this. You guys are off to a _great_ start. I got invited by a friend and I can feel that it'd be a great place to learn and even track what I learn.
Yay Jack 🎉
Hey Hunters - lead frontend engineer for https://tryforge.com here! If you've any questions about the tech etc feel free to ask. I don't bite, even though I'm running on very little sleep... 😅
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