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I'm looking for experienced educators, industry practitioners, and subject matter experts who want to teach live workshops on YouTube. We're launching an experiment: grow our YouTube channel by focusing only on intermediate-to-advanced topics.

Class Central helps tens of millions of learners find the best courses. Small team (6 people), profitable, independent, 13+ years.

This is genuinely experimental. You plan and lead live workshops on subjects you know deeply. Any domain works. We promote them to our audience, and we figure out together what clicks.

I would like to skip the content farm tactics and beginner stuff. I just want to offer solid teaching for people ready to learn challenging subjects.

careers@classcentral.com

I'm looking for a senior engineer to take ownership (from me) of Class Central's codebase and infrastructure.

We help tens of millions of learners find the best courses on any subject. Small team (6 people), profitable, independent, and around for 13+ years. No VC drama, just sustainable growth.

Stack: PHP 8+, Symfony 7+, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Google Cloud. We keep it simple and productive.

Own the full stack, help shape our product, and build pragmatic solutions for our current scale. I am looking for product-minded engineers who are focused on user experience and driven to understand the business.

I'm building a new cross-functional product team from scratch (engineering, product, design). Looking for a foundational engineer who can mentor, collaborate, and help define how we work together.

Remote-first, async, very few meetings. Real autonomy, real impact. Fair warning: being fully remote means no annual Halloween Heists.

While I don't have a formal job post up yet, if you're at that point where this feels like the right next step, I'd be happy to hear from you: careers@classcentral.com

You’ll: research, test, and evaluate courses (e.g., LangChain, DevSecOps, Nginx, pen-testing) and write clear, actionable guides with charts/images/layouts.

You are: a curious polyglot learner and clear writer, fluent with the command line, and comfortable driving projects in a remote team.

How we work: full-time, remote-first, async, very few meetings; we’re profitable and independent so you can ship fast and have real impact.

AI policy: AI can speed you up, but this is hands-on research and writing—you find and test the best courses yourself (not a prompt-engineering role).

Process: application review → paid writing test → interview with founder → paid trial → decision.

Apply: https://www.classcentral.com/about/careers/developer-educati...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42329489

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While exploring courses, I realized that navigating through different college websites with inconsistent interfaces was frustrating and time-consuming.

At Class Central, we thought it would be helpful to catalog these courses centrally. As an experiment, we've collected information from 10 out of the 116 California community colleges and aggregated over 3,000 online courses across various subjects.

While we haven't yet implemented a search feature in the user interface, you can search by modifying the URL. For example, to find Python courses, add "?q=python" to the end of the URL: https://www.classcentral.com/collection/california-community...

This is an ongoing project. Depending on the response, we're considering expanding it to include more community colleges in California and potentially other regions for Spring 2025.

I'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions on how we can improve this resource.

I'm still getting familiar with the community college system, so I'd be particularly interested in hearing about your experiences with community colleges or similar systems around the world.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41617357

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Makes sense since B2B is an extension of their B2C catalog. But they seem to be hiring a lot of sales people, so I was not sure if they are profitable or not.

In my opinion, of all the online education providers Coursera grew the most during the pandemic. They also reacted well by offering free certificates and giving free access to their catalog to college students [2].

My company Class Central [3], a Tripadvisor for online education grew a lot during the pandemic. In the second half of March, we received 5 million visitors, almost a 20x increase. Though no longer the peak, we are still at 2.5X of what we were before.

1. https://www.classcentral.com/report/coursera-monetization-re...

2. https://www.classcentral.com/report/mooc-providers-response-...

3. https://www.classcentral.com/

In all 50+ such degrees have been announced [1]. ~30 of these were announced in 2018, but there was a slow down in 2019 with only 11 announced [2].

A majority of degrees tend to be Master's, but there are few bachelors. Most recently Coursera announced that their Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University of London had 2,000+ students enrolled. It was announced last year and costs 10,088 – 15,132 GBP.

Disclaimer: I am the founder of Class Central, a Tripadvisor for Online Education. But we also write about the MOOC industry in depth.

[1] https://www.classcentral.com/report/mooc-based-masters-degre...

[2] https://www.classcentral.com/report/moocs-stats-and-trends-2...

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EdX also has something similar.

You can also filter by subjects i.e Computer Science, Data Science. Humanities, Mathematics, etc.

Disclaimer: I am the founder.

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Disclaimer: Self plug

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It's the same list, but more comprehensive.