Why I Built emeralize

• I want to build a new educational model to obsolete the state educational model

What is my product

• It’s like Substack x Udemy x TeachersPayTeachers meets Bitcoin

• Marketplace to sell resources and courses

• Creator to create resources and courses

• Social for social links, tips, and creations the creator has made.

• Resources.

  • Resources are single pieces of content like blogs, articles, videos, audio, or all of the above.

• Courses.

  • Courses are sets of resources organized in a way that helps you learn a topic from A->Z. You can: - Create resources & courses for your audience. -

• Wallet to hold balance and withdrawals.

  • Withdraw minimum is 10 sat and is automatic to lightning addresses.

What problems does my product solve?

• Reduces payment processing and platform costs by 28% currently

• Enables new monetization opportunities

• Global payments to create more inclusive educational opportunities

• Resource / Course completion rates due to monetary incentive to learn

• Central location for high quality education resources

• Increasing the number of bitcoin circular economies. (Creators <> Learners)

How I built it

• Philosophy wise: keep it simple and easy.

• Design: Figured out how I wanted to brand to feel and ensured all the flows were easy to follow and do in terms of user experience and engineering execution.

• Eng: I built it using Django, MySQL, and the ZBD API.

Team

• Me

Project Roadmap

• Comments on Courses and Resources

• Paid Creator Feature

• Newsletter integration

Lightning Features

• LNURLp (pay to lightning address)

• BOLT-11 Invoices

• Wallet balances

Next Steps

• Announce it with a waitlist for creators

• Release the app 2-4 weeks later after onboarding creators and their content

• Continue to iterate and add features whilst this is ongoing.

Pitch Video

https://youtu.be/JJrLBTYPHqc

Try it out

emeralize.com/resource/41 to get started.