A creator's first cohort course — sold out in 11 days
A solo educator launched a 6-week cohort course platform with Stripe, Zoom integration, and a private community feed. All 40 seats sold inside 11 days of the announce email.
Time to ship
8 days
Seats sold
40 / 40
Ad spend
$0
Challenge
A solo educator with a 14k-person newsletter audience needed to ship a paid cohort course platform — student onboarding, payment, lesson drip, Zoom session scheduling, and a private community feed — before their announce email went out.
Approach
Next.js 15 + Supabase, Stripe Checkout for the $499 tier, scheduled lesson drips via Supabase cron, Zoom OAuth for session links generated per cohort, and a Discord webhook for the community feed. Anonymous waitlist on day 1 so we could collect demand while still building.
Outcome
Shipped on day 8. The announce email went out on day 9, the cohort sold out by day 11, and the first session ran flawlessly two weeks later. The educator has since reused the same scaffold for two follow-on cohorts.
Pick a plan and we'll be in your repo by Friday.
Different idea, same playbook: send a brief, we scaffold, wire auth and Stripe billing, deploy, hand over the GitHub repo plus a Loom walkthrough.