Diode

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Hey everyone! I'm Kenneth, founder and CEO of Slip. Slip is a platform that makes it incredibly easy to build and sell interactive programming courses. We're currently in the YC S21 batch. And we have been iterating hard on building the best tool for programming courses. We're a team of two people. Me and our first engineering hire @kyrelldixon. We empower devs to earn more from their knowledge passively. We also help their students get the best learning experience from a programming course. Why I made Slip: I launched my own programming course in January of this year called https://www.vim.so and I made $11k in my first month. It only took me 3 days to build it. The reason it took me 3 days to build it is because I had leveraged a lot of code I wrote for a previous coding tutorial platform. I quickly realized that many other developers probably have some knowledge they could teach and generate thousands of dollars with that knowledge, if it were easier to do it. What you can do with Slip: With Slip, you can build a course with an easy to use tool which lets you embed executable code snippets, React/Vue/Nextjs/Node environments, videos and more. We handle payments, auth, hosting, and more, so that you can focus on the thing that matters. Making great content. On the marketing side we help authors by letting them do a presale and generate money before they commit many hours to making their course. I did this same thing with vim.so and the early financial win made a huge difference in me taking the course creation seriously. We have tons of ideas on how to make Slip better in the future but we're excited to get it out in front of y'all today!

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4yr ago

Csaba Kissi

Invoice generator

@kyrelldixon @kennethcassel You did a great job with vim course. This is a great addition! Congrats Kenneth and good luck!

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4yr ago

Jim Raptis

BrandBird

@kyrelldixon @kennethcassel I had no idea you joined YC. You're a machine dude! Congrats on your new direction and wish you all the best with your launch 🔥

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4yr ago

Kenneth Cassel

Diode

Maker

@kyrelldixon @csaba_kissi Thanks Csaba!

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4yr ago

Kenneth Cassel

Diode

Maker

@kyrelldixon @draptis Thanks Jim! I just want to make cool products like you do! Your apps are always so nice to use 💪

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4yr ago

Ben Barbersmith

@kyrelldixon @kennethcassel This is huge, congratulations! I’m really excited for this platform, and if/when I finally build my long-planned course on SQL I know Slip is the platform for me. Love the new presale functionality in particular. Massive congratulations to you, Kenneth!

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4yr ago

Damon Chen

Quicky AI

From vim.so to slip.so, Kenneth is making the dream for selling interactive courses come true! 👍

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4yr ago

Kenneth Cassel

Diode

Maker

@xianmingchen It's been pretty cool seeing how that little idea progressed to something that has helped folks make real money. Dustin made $1200 on his presale in less than 24h 🤯

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4yr ago

Kyle Morris

Audioread (formerly Audiblogs)

finally someone is taking a big swing in this space! The current tutorial-ecosystem for devs kinda sucks. Want to learn something? You've gotta watch a long youtube video that chucks all the knowledge at you fullspeed, or take a 30 hour coursera course that gives you way more than you need and skims over the details, or you have to hit your head against verbose docs that scare away novice devs. I believe the bottleneck is that while there's tons of smart devs out there, its difficult for them to produce and distribute engaging content that helps spread their knowledge. If you make it 10x easier to produce/distribute the stuff already in a devs brain, you could accelerate the world via education. This could even go to enterprise. Most tech companies have the notable "expert [pick ur language] dev" that just knows way too much about a certain thing. You could enable this dev able to produce, maintain, and benefit from internal courses that educate their peers across the org instead of publishing cryptic README files files that go stale after a month

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4yr ago

Kenneth Cassel

Diode

Maker

@morriscode couldn't have said it better myself! saving this comment!

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4yr ago

Chris Bennett

@morriscode @kennethcassel +1 for "I want to use this to make internal courses to onboard new devs" (and would pay a monthly subscription to do so based on the number of courses)

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4yr ago

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