Ship It Live — $1,999 flat
Design + build + deploy · kickoff in 24h · limited slots
Ship It Live · e-learning sprint
Your course, as a real product, live in 30 days.
Lessons, progress, quizzes and payment — your teaching in a product you own, instead of renting a course platform that takes a cut.
Quick answer
An education or e-learning app can be designed, built and live in 30 days for a fixed $2,500, covering courses and lessons, video and text content, quizzes, progress tracking, certificates and payment or subscription access. Live virtual classrooms and formal accreditation systems are separate projects.
The plan
Day one to day 30, written down.
You get this schedule before you commit, not after. If a phase slips, that is mine to absorb — the price and the date were agreed before anything started.
- 1
Days 1–3
Scope lock
How your material is actually structured, how access is sold, and what completion means. Course apps go wrong when the content model is decided after the design.
- 2
Days 4–12
Design
The lesson screen first — it is where learners spend all their time — then the course browse, progress and instructor views.
- 3
Days 13–24
Build
Content structure, video delivery, progress, quizzes and payments. Your real course goes in during the build rather than after it, so you see the actual thing.
- 4
Days 25–28
Learn with it
Real learners going through a real module. This is where you discover whether lesson two is too long, and there is still time to change it.
- 5
Days 29–30
Launch
Payments live, first cohort enrolled, and your course running on something you own.
What $2,500 gets you
Everything needed to launch — nothing padding the invoice.
Who books this
Built for
Educators and coaches renting a course platform and paying for the privilege
Training providers whose material lives in Drive folders and Zoom recordings
Founders building for a subject the generic platforms serve badly
Real situations
Five ways this shows up, and what actually fixes it.
Not hypothetical — the shape of the problem before someone books this sprint, and the specific part of the build that resolves it.
Situation 1
Renting a course platform and paying for the privilege
An educator's course lives on a rented platform that takes a percentage of every sale and controls the entire learning experience, including the parts that don't fit the subject.
A course product owned outright — courses, progress, quizzes, payments — replaces the rented platform without the ongoing revenue share.
Situation 2
Course material scattered across Drive folders and Zoom recordings
A training provider's actual content exists as a loose collection of documents and recorded calls, with no structured way for a student to move through it in order.
Modules, ordering and prerequisites turn the scattered material into a structured course a learner can actually progress through.
Situation 3
A subject the generic course platforms serve badly
A course covers a subject with structural needs — sequencing, assessments, a specific content model — that generic platforms weren't built to express well.
The content structure is designed around how the subject actually needs to be taught, not around a platform's one-size-fits-all lesson format.
Situation 4
No way to prove completion or track who's actually learning
An instructor has no visibility into which students are progressing, stalling, or have quietly stopped, and no certificate to offer on completion.
Progress tracking, resume-where-you-left-off and completion certificates give both the learner and instructor a real signal, not a guess.
Situation 5
Video hosting keeps buffering or getting downloaded and shared
Course video hosted as raw files either streams poorly on slower connections or is trivially easy for anyone to download and redistribute.
Video is served through a proper streaming service — not raw files — so it adapts to connection speed and isn't simply downloadable.
The honest part
When 30 days is the wrong answer.
A fixed deadline only works when the scope genuinely fits inside it. These are the cases where I will tell you so rather than take the booking.
Live virtual classrooms with video conferencing built in — use a dedicated tool and link to it; rebuilding Zoom badly serves nobody.
SCORM, xAPI or formal accreditation compliance, which are standards programmes rather than features.
Proctored examinations with identity verification and anti-cheating — genuinely complex and genuinely regulated.
Inside the 30 days
- Course and lesson structure — modules, ordering, locking and prerequisites
- Video, text, images and downloadable resources in a lesson
- Quizzes and knowledge checks with scoring and retries
- Progress tracking, resume-where-you-left-off, and completion certificates
- Payments: one-off course purchase, bundles, or a subscription
- An instructor view to publish, edit and see how learners are doing
- Works on phone and desktop, because people study on both
- Source code, design files and 30 days of support at handover
Quoted as one number before day one. A week running long is mine to absorb.
Outside the line
- Live virtual classrooms with video conferencing built in — use a dedicated tool and link to it; rebuilding Zoom badly serves nobody.
- SCORM, xAPI or formal accreditation compliance, which are standards programmes rather than features.
- Proctored examinations with identity verification and anti-cheating — genuinely complex and genuinely regulated.
Real work, sized and priced separately. You hear it before you book, not at handover.
Questions
Before you book
If one fits, use it, and I will tell you so on the call. Building your own makes sense when their fees have grown past what a build costs, when your subject needs a structure they cannot express, or when the learning experience is the product rather than a wrapper around videos.
Other sprints
30 days from now, this could be live.
A 30-minute call decides whether the scope fits. If it doesn't, I'll tell you what would.