Skool is genius. Pure genius. I am thrilled.
I have been an active member forums and groups since 2008. I was part of warrior forum, black hat world and digital point forums. I did enjoy vBulletin and their features but somewhere along the line they lost the way. I have tried SMF (simple machine forums) and also tried phpBB. If you have been around the internet for a while, you know what I am talking about.
After a few years, I ran an active Facebook Group with 200k members, but it was Facebook groups. So as FB died, the groups also died. The world moved on to 1-to-many media instead of forums and community engagement.
Reddit is tripping on something else. It's a Facebook in itself. Discord, meh... something's off there. Circle? Something doesn't feel right there. HeartBeat? No way. Nothing comes close to skool.
For the past 3 years, I have been searching for a solid community software and here it is. Skool is the next big thing in community platforms. The simplicity of it, intuitive UI, attention to detail and fast loading speed makes it the go to choice for community platforms.
I joined Consulting Accelerator, then UpLevel, then Quantuam. And I couldn't be more happy with Sam's next product.
And here I feel there is a real opportunity for me to make money. I just need to get 100 members paying $99 a month and I could relax with $4000 a month in affiliate commissions. As I migrate my FB group to my skool group.
Something I absolutely damn love about Skool:
  • Users upload a pic because when they sign up Skool promptly asks them to.
  • Users enter a description because it is a must
  • Leaderboards are great, members will have a sense of satisfaction for being active.
  • Classroom - perfect. Just embed youtube videos and you have a solid teachable alternative.
  • Calendar - very much needed because we do multiple zoom calls every week to engage with the audience and students.
  • The ability to import people and send them invites... absolutely love it. I am going to invite my email list stage by stage.
One thing I would love to have (may be as an enterprise product offering at $299 - $499 a month) is white labelling it. I like to have it on my own domain and I like to run a walled garden without skool branding. I want to own my audience and brand equity resulting from their engagement.
But right now even if such an option is not available... I would still use skool because other alternatives which let you host on your domain name are still sub-par to skool's technical performance.
It takes an insane level of attention to detail and obsession to the product's finish like Steve Jobs. Sam has it. He has had that design language since the consulting .com website was built. Now we have a product that everyone can use.
[On a side note, I thought some day I will build a solid community software but I have underestimated the amount of investment that goes into it. I am happy that Sam has done what I couldn't].
Cheers,
Deepak Kanakaraju
a.k.a. Digital Deepak
Founder & CEO of LearnToday.com (ed-tech) & PixelTrack.com (Our DM Agency)
P.S. Other improvements expected: italics and bold options, 2FA for login for security, bigger member profile pics next to posts along with their leaderboard status, quizzes for members, iOS/Android app for members. I guess many of these are already in the pipeline.
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Skool is genius. Pure genius. I am thrilled.
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