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Your Course Revenue is Someone Else's Exit Strategy

If you're a course creator watching Teachable take 10% of every sale, you've already paid for your own platform twice over.

We build course platforms, learning management systems, and e-learning experiences that handle thousands of concurrent learners without breaking a sweat.

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10K+
Concurrent Learners
Architecture tested
99.9%
Uptime SLA
Edge-delivered globally
95+
Lighthouse Score
Performance target
<2s
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What Custom LMS Development Actually Fixes -- And What It Won't

Your course goes live, students enroll, and somewhere between checkout and certification a SaaS platform is quietly taking 5–10% of every transaction--forever. Online course platform development builds you a custom LMS your business actually owns: video delivery that doesn't spike hosting bills when enrollment doubles, progress tracking that fits your pedagogy instead of forcing linear modules, payment rails that route straight to your Stripe account. Your brand, your data, your margin. This isn't about cloning Teachable's UI. It's about architecting a platform that scales with your student base without bleeding revenue or forcing you into cookie-cutter course structures. We ship in 12 weeks, not six months--because your next cohort launch date doesn't wait.

Your Current Site May Be a Liability

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

SaaS platforms take 5-10% of every transaction on top of monthly fees
Risk: At scale, you're handing over $50K+/year for features you could simply own.
Off-the-shelf LMS platforms look identical to your competitors' platforms
Risk: Learners can't tell you apart, and that hurts retention and referrals more than most course creators realize.
Video hosting bills spike unpredictably as your student base grows
Risk: Your margins shrink as you succeed -- which is exactly backwards from how a healthy business should work.
Cookie-cutter course structures can't support your pedagogy
Risk: You get shoehorned into linear modules when your content actually needs branching paths or cohort-based delivery.
Meaningful analytics stop at basic completion rates
Risk: You can't pinpoint where learners are dropping off or struggling, so there's no real path to improving course quality.
Platform migrations are painful -- you risk losing student data and progress history
Risk: Vendor lock-in keeps you stuck even when the platform's clearly stopped working for you.

What Your Website Could Look Like

Custom-designed for your industry. No templates. No stock photos.

Custom online course platform with student dashboard
LMS platform with course builder, video lessons, quizzes, progress tracking, and certificates

How We Build This Right

Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.

Adaptive Video Streaming

HLS-powered video delivery with adaptive bitrate streaming via Mux. Students get buffer-free playback on any device, at any connection speed.

Progress Tracking & Certificates

Granular lesson-level progress tracking with automated certificate generation. xAPI/SCORM support is there when enterprise integrations require it.

Payment & Subscription Logic

Stripe-powered checkout that handles one-time purchases, subscriptions, payment plans, and cohort-based pricing. You keep 100% minus processing fees.

Role-Based Access Control

Instructor, admin, student, and team manager roles with fine-grained permissions. Enterprise clients get SSO integration and team provisioning on top of that.

Course Builder Interface

A drag-and-drop curriculum editor your team can actually use. It supports video, text, quizzes, assignments, downloads, and embedded code exercises.

SEO-Optimized Course Pages

Server-rendered landing pages for every course and module. Structured data markup drives organic discovery and rich snippets directly in search results.

What We Build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Stop hemorrhaging 5–10% transaction fees to platforms that cap your upside

Own your revenue stream--zero SaaS fees means every dollar after hosting costs is yours

Break free from identical templates that make your courses indistinguishable from competitors

Deploy time-gated drips, peer threads, and group assignments that push completion 2x higher

Eliminate unpredictable video hosting bills that punish growth

White-label multi-tenant portals so B2B clients get branded dashboards under your roof

Escape linear module structures that can't support cohort-based or branching pedagogy

Layer automated grading, code challenges, and peer review into assessment workflows

Fix blind spots in analytics that hide where learners actually drop off

Serve 60% mobile learners with offline caching and touch-optimized navigation

Cut vendor lock-in before migrating becomes a data loss nightmare

Track engagement funnels, revenue per cohort, and behavior heatmaps in real time

Built on a Modern, Secure Stack

Next.jsSupabaseVercelMuxStripePostgreSQLRedisTailwind CSS

Our Development Process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

Platform Strategy & Architecture

Week 1-2

We map your course structure, monetization model, and learner journey first. Then we design the database schema, API architecture, and video delivery pipeline before anyone writes a line of code.

02

Core Platform Build

Week 3-5

Authentication, course player, progress tracking, and payment integration all go in during this phase. By the end of it, you'll have a working prototype with real video playback and a live checkout flow.

03

Admin & Course Builder

Week 6-7

Next comes the instructor dashboard and drag-and-drop course builder. Your team can create, edit, and publish courses without touching code.

04

Polish, Test & Optimize

Week 8-9

Load testing for concurrent video streams, Lighthouse optimization, an accessibility audit, and cross-device QA. We simulate real learner loads before anything goes near production.

05

Launch & Growth Support

Week 10

Deployment to production with CDN-backed video delivery. Thirty days of post-launch support plus an analytics review to sharpen early learner engagement.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Most course platforms go from kickoff to launch in 8-12 weeks. A single-instructor platform with video delivery, progress tracking, and payments can ship in 8 weeks. Multi-tenant platforms with white-labeling, advanced analytics, and community features push to 12-14 weeks. We scope every project before locking in a timeline — no exceptions.
A custom LMS starts around $12,000 as a one-time investment. Teachable and Thinkific run $99-399/month plus 5-10% transaction fees. If you've got 500+ students generating $10K/month in revenue, you'll typically recoup the build cost within 12-18 months — and every dollar after that compounds in your favor. You also own the codebase and the data outright.
Yes. We pull your course content, student accounts, progress data, and enrollment history from most major platforms via their APIs or data exports. Video files transfer to Mux for adaptive streaming. We handle the migration as part of the build, so your learners don't notice anything's changed during the switch.
Absolutely. We implement SCORM 1.2/2004 and xAPI (Tin Can) compliance for enterprise clients who need to plug into existing HR systems or track learning records in an LRS. For most independent course creators though, our native progress tracking is simpler and more flexible than SCORM's rigid packaging requirements — so we only add it when there's a genuine reason.
We use Mux for adaptive bitrate streaming with per-minute pricing that scales predictably. Unlike Vimeo OTT or Wistia, Mux only charges for actual encoding and delivery — typically $0.02-0.05 per stream hour. For a platform with 1,000 monthly active learners watching 10 hours each, you're looking at roughly $200-500/month in hosting costs.
Every platform we build is mobile-first. With 60% of learners in key markets coming in via smartphone, we design the course player, navigation, and assessments for touch interfaces first, then layer the desktop experience on top. We can also add progressive web app features for offline access and push notifications when it makes sense for your audience.
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