SMF·KAJABI
Can a prompt replace Kajabi?
Online stores & courses — all-in-one creator business
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Verdict
Selling and delivering one course — a landing page, hosted checkout, a magic-link login, a folder of gated lessons — is a real multi-day build. What doesn't come with it is Kajabi's actual breadth: a whole stack of site, community, email automation, funnels, and analytics bundled into one subscription.
Exhibit A — The prompt
Received on30.07.2026Build a one-course sales-and-delivery site — deliberately scoped to one product at one price, not a general platform. A landing page with the course pitch and curriculum, and a buy button that goes straight to a hosted checkout (Stripe Checkout is the simplest option). A webhook from the payment provider marks the buyer enrolled and emails them a magic sign-in link — no passwords, just a link that logs them in. Course content lives as a folder of Markdown lessons (with embedded video, either self-hosted or an unlisted link to a video host), rendered as an ordered lesson list with a per-student completion checkbox on each one. Keep a students table recording email, purchase date, and lessons completed. Add a small admin view, not public-facing, showing enrollments, a revenue total, and a way to grant a student free access by hand.
Do not build email marketing automations, community features, funnels, or a multi-course catalog — those are the actual breadth Kajabi sells, and stitching them all in is real, ongoing scope well past a personal course site.Opening prefills the prompt — press enter to run it.
Exhibit B — What you lose
- B.1 the all-in-one stack, replaced by several separately maintained pieces
- B.2 marketing funnels
- B.3 email automation sequences
- B.4 community features
- B.5 customer support if something breaks
Prior art
Exhibit C — Why people still pay: all-in-one workflow/payments
People pay to avoid stitching together and maintaining a dozen separate creator-business tools — the value is having one system, not any single feature inside it.
Questions
Can I import my existing Kajabi course and students?
The lesson content, largely yes — copy your videos and text into the Markdown lesson structure. Student and purchase history generally doesn't export cleanly, since it's tied to Kajabi's own billing records.
Will it work on my phone?
The landing page and lesson viewer are both responsive web pages, so yes for browsing and watching. There's no dedicated mobile app or offline video download.
What does it cost to run?
Hosting and a database, typically a few dollars a month, plus standard payment-processing fees on sales — no per-month platform fee at all beyond that.
What's the one thing that doesn't survive the rebuild?
The bundle. Kajabi's real value is site, course delivery, email, community, and analytics all working together as one system; this build gives you one solid course page, not the other four things.
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