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SMF·TEACHABLE
Received on
30.07.2026
Reviewed on
28.09.2026
Exhibits annexed
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Questions
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SMF·TEACHABLE

Can a prompt replace Teachable?

Online stores & courses — online courses

Almost Verdict recorded on 28.09.2026 · Verified on 30.07.2026
Price
$39/moSource: www.teachable.com · Checked on July 30, 2026
Per year
$468
Build time
A week
Votes
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Exhibit A The prompt
Exhibit B What you lose
Exhibit C Why people still pay: payments/content hosting/mobile distribution
Exhibit Q Questions

Verdict

A single-course sales-and-delivery site — a landing page, checkout, magic-link login, gated video lessons, progress tracking — is a real, contained weekend-plus build for one course. What doesn't come with it is Teachable's breadth: multiple courses, affiliates, certificates, upsells, and everything else that makes it a full course business platform rather than one product page.

Exhibit B — What you lose

Exhibit A — The prompt

Received on30.07.2026
Build a single-course sales-and-delivery site, scoped to exactly one course. Course content lives as Markdown files organized into modules and lessons, each optionally pointing at a video file. A public landing page shows the course outline and price, with a buy button going straight to a hosted checkout. A webhook from the payment processor marks the buyer's email as enrolled. Login is by magic link only — enter your email, receive a signed sign-in link — no passwords, no OAuth. Gate lesson pages by enrollment, and serve video through short-lived signed URLs so a direct link expires rather than staying shareable forever. Track progress with a mark-complete button per lesson and a progress bar per module, stored per student.

Do not build support for multiple courses, affiliates, certificates, upsells, or coupon logic — this sells and delivers exactly one course. Payment receipts come from the payment processor directly; don't build invoicing or tax logic yourself. Note plainly in the README that a small VPS handles a modest audience fine, but a real launch with a large audience needs dedicated video hosting, not files served off a general-purpose server.

Opening prefills the prompt — press enter to run it.

Exhibit B — What you lose

  • B.1 support for multiple courses and a catalog
  • B.2 affiliate programs
  • B.3 certificates, upsells, and coupon logic
  • B.4 dedicated mobile apps
  • B.5 customer support infrastructure

Prior art

Exhibit C — Why people still pay: payments/content hosting/mobile distribution

A course business needs checkout, access control, progress tracking, and support to all just work together — people pay to avoid stitching and maintaining that themselves.

Questions

Can I import my existing Teachable course?

The lesson content, largely yes — copy your videos and written material into the Markdown lesson structure. Student enrollment and progress history don't transfer, since they're tied to Teachable's own billing and tracking.

Will it work on my phone?

The landing page and lesson viewer are both responsive, so browsing and watching work fine on a phone. There's no dedicated mobile app or offline video download.

What does it cost to run?

Hosting, a domain, and a database, typically a few dollars a month, plus standard payment-processing fees on sales — no monthly platform fee beyond that until real video-hosting costs kick in at scale.

What's the one thing that doesn't survive the rebuild?

Running more than one course as a real business. This build is genuinely good at selling and delivering a single course; the moment there's a second course, a coupon, or an affiliate to manage, you're back to building platform features by hand.

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