Never used Supabase before but I'm very much comfortable with their underlying stack. I use a combination of postgres, PostgREST, PLv8 and Auth0 to achieve nearly the same thing.
I feel why the op seems to prefer Miami. It's difficult for those not born and raised in tropical countries to understand the impact that the lack of sunlight has in our lives. We're used to have a good amount of sunlight during the 365 days of the year.
At least the Silicon Valley isn't all bad in that sense...
p.s: I haven't been to Réunion, but I flew over the island when I went to Mauritius. It's indeed tiny but it is extremely beautiful and exotic too \0
My main criticism goes to the product itself. The idea of building an LMS came up after talking to several instructors. Although there are many LMSs on the market, many instructors have never considered using Moodle and ended up using paid products. Hotmart and Teachable are examples of paid LMSs that are doing really well.
I think that the added value of those products is that the instructor not only has access to the creation and hosting of his courses, but has also integrated checkout and the ability to create landing pages and promote their courses. My idea is to offer the same product, but for free! The hosted version will only cover our costs. Our business is actually focused on the distribution (https://classpert.com), which we believe is by far the hardest problem to solve.
Now back to Moodle, in fact, I've considered extending it before. They already have a community (including a large directory of plugins) and appears to be used by many instructors and institutions.
However, looking from the outside, I don´t think that extending Moodle will be that easy. I´m not an expert in PHP, but I found the codebase messy. Also, the interface is old, ugly and difficult to use and that is a symptom of bad product to me.
Thanks @alexc05!
I deleted the old ones. HN was giving me a damn "submission error" message every time I tried to post, but it turned out that I was actually sending each one successfully.
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E-learning providers such as Udemy, Skillshare, Pluralsight or Coursera have their own "embedded" learning management system.
But this piece of software can also live alone as some instructors prefer to build their own audience and hence control the distribution (which usually happens through social networks). The advantage over using a marketplace (like Udemy) or selling the content to e-learning providers such as Pluralsight or Linkedin Learning, is that they mainly can sell their courses for much higher prices