Course providers
You already have a catalog. We surface the specific lesson inside it that answers a learner’s question today, instead of asking them to buy a whole course on spec.
For creators and educators
Teach what you know. Get paid for it.
DIY Degree meets learners at the exact moment they need something explained. The marketplace we are building puts you there — whether you run a course platform, a YouTube channel, a classroom, or a tutoring practice.
Who this is for
If you teach anything, this is for you
A teacher is anyone who helps someone else understand something. Educators are allies in this, not obstacles — the whole point is that the people who teach well reach more learners and earn more for doing it.
YouTubers and creators
You have spent years explaining things well to strangers. Here that work is matched to people actively looking for exactly your explanation — and there is a way to get paid beyond ad revenue.
Teachers and tutors
Keep your classroom and your practice. Use the hours you choose to help learners anywhere, at the depth you like, without a commute or a scheduling war.
Mentors and coaches
If your value is judgment and accountability rather than lecture, mentorship is a first-class role here, not an afterthought bolted onto a course.
What you can offer The plan
Four ways to teach here
You choose what you offer and what it costs. Nothing here requires you to give up your own platform, channel, classroom, or audience.
Courses and mini-lessons, on your terms
Bring a full course or a single ten-minute explanation of one stubborn topic. Because learners arrive one topic at a time, a small, excellent lesson is worth as much here as a semester-long program — and it is far faster to make.
Short tutoring sessions
Take five, ten, or fifteen-minute sessions with learners who are stuck right now, on a topic you know cold. No scheduling a weekly hour, no minimum commitment, no travel — just the question in front of you.
Mentor subscriptions
Guide a handful of learners month to month toward a real goal: a career change, a subject they want to own, a kid who needs someone in their corner. Recurring, relationship-based, and the highest-leverage thing an experienced teacher can do.
Teaching as proof of mastery
Learners who master a topic can tutor the people one step behind them and earn credit toward their own learning. The good ones level up into paid expert tutors and then mentors — so the marketplace grows its own teachers.
How you get found
Surfaced at the moment of need
Discovery is the hardest part of teaching independently. It is the part we are actually built to solve.
The learner comes to you
Someone names a topic, and we point them at the best way to learn it. If that is your lesson, your video, or your fifteen minutes, that is what gets surfaced — at the minute they care most, which is also the minute they are most likely to pay.
Outcomes decide, not ad spend
Ratings and learning outcomes rank what we surface. Did people who used your material actually pass the assessment afterward? That question decides who rises, and it cannot be bought.
Small work counts
You do not need a course catalog or a production studio to compete. One genuinely great explanation of one topic can outrank a polished program that leaves people confused.
What we ask
Clear outcomes, no fluff, honest pricing
Clear outcomes
Say what a learner will be able to do afterward, specifically enough that we can check whether it happened.
No fluff
Cut the padding, the throat-clearing, and the recap of the recap. People come here to learn a thing fast and get on with their lives.
Honest pricing
Price it plainly. No hidden renewals, no fake urgency, no bundling someone into a year to answer one question.
Status
Where this stands today
Being straight with you: the marketplace is being built. There is no sign-up to rush, and we are not collecting names for a list.
What exists today is the open directory. Learning platforms and providers are catalogued there now, browsable by anyone, and it is the foundation the marketplace is being built on. If you run a platform or publish learning material, that is where the work starts.