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Mar 24 • 📅 News
🚀 SKOOL NEWS #49: St. Patrick’s Day AMA
Hey Navigators 🧭
Last week’s Skool News was a bit different.
One small new feature.
One very niche Skool of the Week.
And then a big AMA based on 600+ questions from the community.
That made this episode interesting, because it was less “announcement mode” and more “here’s what people actually want to know.”
✅ NEW FEATURE: Sticky Notification Filter
Skool added a small but useful update to notifications.
Now when you filter notifications, the filter sticks while you work through them.
Example:
If you filter for one specific group, open a notification, and then go back, the filter stays there.
So you can clear that batch faster.
Small safeguard:
The filter resets after 10 minutes.
Smart move.
Otherwise people would forget they had a filter on and think their notifications disappeared 😄
Also new:
- Following filter
- New posts filter
And Skool made notification settings easier to tune.
Big picture:
They are still cleaning up notifications, which is good.
Because once engagement grows, messy notifications can become a real problem fast.
🏫 Skool of the Week: Crybaby Ron Studio
This one was a great reminder that weirdly specific niches can work really well.
Ron Smith runs a community around:
Japanese tattoo drawing
Not tattoos in general.
Not art in general.
Very specific.
And he reportedly hit:
$5.3k MRR
119 members
in about 3 months
His main source?
Instagram — around 66%
Skool Network added another chunk too.
Simple model:
create niche content on Instagram
put Skool link in bio
send people to About Page
let the niche do the filtering
That tends to work better than broad, vague positioning.
❓ AMA HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE COMMUNITY
There were a lot of questions.
Here are the ones that stood out most.
1️⃣ How will Skool get to 1 billion users?
Their answer was basically:
Keep making Skool better.
Keep growing creators.
And now shift more focus toward getting more users onto the platform too.
Interesting stat from the episode:
It took Skool about 4 years to get to 1 million users.
Now they say they grow by about 1 million users every 2 weeks.
That kind of curve changes things fast.
2️⃣ What are Skool’s company values?
They shared five:
- Goal driven
- User empathy
- More with less
- Balance speed and quality
- How can I make this fun?
Honestly, that last one is probably more useful than it sounds.
When something feels heavy, asking
“How can I make this fun?”
can change your energy fast.
That applies to community building too.
3️⃣ Discovery is still the big focus
This was probably the biggest strategic signal in the AMA.
They said discovery is going to be a main focus this year.
That includes:
- better search
- better filters
- trending
- more dynamic discovery
- stronger ranking systems
That matters because Skool already sends meaningful traffic to communities even before discovery is fully optimized.
So if they improve that engine, that could be a very big deal.
4️⃣ One-on-one calls?
They said yes, likely.
But first they want to improve call quality and stability.
That makes sense.
Better to make the current thing stronger before adding more layers.
Likely place for 1:1 calls:
- inside DMs
That would be a logical fit.
5️⃣ Voice notes?
Interesting answer here.
They do not seem excited about voice notes in the main community feed.
Which I get.
A voice note in a thread is hard to scan.
You have no clue what’s inside until you listen.
But in DMs?
Seems possible.
And honestly that makes more sense anyway.
6️⃣ Languages and currencies?
Big one for international creators.
They said both are on the roadmap for this year.
They specifically mentioned:
- Spanish
- German
…as likely starting points for languages.
That will matter a lot as Skool keeps growing outside the English-speaking world.
7️⃣ Better visibility for plans / upgrades
They admitted this needs work.
Especially for premium / tier-based communities.
Main point:
If you want upgrades, the upgrade path needs to be more obvious.
Simple.
True.
Still not polished enough yet.
8️⃣ Global calendar
This was one of my favorite ideas from the AMA.
The idea:
One Skool-wide calendar showing events across all the communities you’re in.
That would be genuinely useful.
Because right now it’s easy to miss a great live call just because you didn’t check that group at the right time.
A global calendar would make Skool feel a lot more alive.
9️⃣ Email performance on Skool
This one stood out too.
They said platform-wide email open rates are around 60%.
And click rates around 3%.
That’s much stronger than most normal newsletters.
Of course, quality of group and post matters.
But still — those numbers caught my attention.
🔟 Accounting is easier than most people think
This part was surprisingly practical.
Their point was:
If you were doing all this yourself with separate tools, invoices, affiliates, subscriptions, and bookkeeping would be a nightmare.
On Skool, much of that transaction handling is managed by the platform.
So for accounting, you mostly reconcile payouts, not every member payment one by one.
Not the sexiest topic.
But if you’ve ever dealt with messy systems, this matters a lot.
🧭 Bottom Line
This episode was less about shiny launches and more about something useful:
What real users are asking once they start using the platform more seriously.
My take:
Three things stood out most:
- Discovery is clearly becoming a bigger priority
- Languages + currencies are getting closer
- Skool keeps improving the boring stuff that actually matters long term
And honestly, that last part is good.
Because better notifications, better calls, better discovery, cleaner upgrades…
That’s the kind of stuff that quietly makes a platform much stronger.
🧭 Quick question for you
Which AMA answer caught your attention most?
Discovery improvements?
Languages / currencies?
1:1 calls?
Global calendar?
Drop it below 👇
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