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Makr Journal · Courses & Commerce

Sell online courses — keep 100% of what you teach.

Marketplaces rent your audience and take a cut. Makr gives you a static-fast store on your own domain, with Stripe checkout and edge-gated lessons — no plugin, no gatekeeping.

Course previewBuild APIs Like You Mean It3 modules · 9 lessons · 4.2 hours
  • What you'll build
  • Tooling setup
  • Your first win (12 min)
$49one-time · lifetime access
The Playbook

Five steps from expertise to income

You don't need a marketplace. You need a curriculum, a checkout, and a page that loads instantly when your launch post lands. You can also bundle companion workbooks using our system to sell digital downloads.

01Day 1 · Outline

Map your curriculum

Break what you know into modules and lessons. One clear outcome per lesson — 'build your first API' beats 'learn backend' every time.

02Day 1–2 · Create

Record and upload

Screen recordings, PDFs, videos — drop them into Makr's course builder. Organize into sections, add durations, reorder with a drag.

03Day 2 · Price

Set your price & checkout

Connect Stripe once. Set a price in any currency, create coupons, and get a hosted checkout that works on every device — no plugins.

04Day 2 · Gate

Protect your content

Makr issues entitlements on purchase. Only paying students can stream lessons — gated at the edge, no leaky links or shared passwords.

05Day 3 · Launch

Publish your store page

Hit publish. Your course store is static HTML on a global CDN — instant load, perfect Lighthouse, and your own domain from day one.

Why not a marketplace

Everything to sell. Nothing to rent.

Makr is not a marketplace — it's your store. Your domain, your email list, your pricing — easily linkable from your creator link in bio. The only cut is Stripe's.

Course builder that respects chapters

Modules, lessons, durations, and rich content blocks. Built for learners who scan — progress is obvious from the first click.

Stripe checkout, your revenue

Direct Stripe Connect. No marketplace cut on top — your students pay you, not a platform that owns the relationship.

Access control that just works

Entitlements, verification emails, and gated video. If they didn't pay, they don't watch — handled at the edge, not with fragile JS.

Static store that never buckles

Launch-day traffic is just bytes from a CDN. No database to scale, no checkout to crash when your launch post hits.

Your domain, your brand

yourname.com/courses — not a subdomain on someone else's marketplace. Every link builds your SEO, not theirs.

Updates in minutes

Swap a video, add a lesson, change a price — publish again and the CDN is fresh before you've refreshed the tab.

Makr vs. marketplaces

Platform fee on top of Stripe0%10–30%
You own the email listYesRented
Custom domain & brandingFullLimited
Page speed (Lighthouse)100~60–80
Take down riskNonePolicy ban

Your course, your math

Adjust price and students — see what you actually keep.

Gross revenue$9,800
Stripe fees (≈2.9% + 30¢)−$344
You keep$9,456

No marketplace cut. On Udemy/Skillshare you'd lose another $2,940 at 30%.

Your students. Your revenue.

Publish a course store that's static-fast, fully branded, and yours forever — launch in a weekend, not a quarter.

Start selling today
FAQ

Quick answers

Create a course in the dashboard — add modules and lessons, upload videos or PDFs, set a price, connect Stripe, and publish. Your course store page is static HTML on a global CDN with gated access handled at the edge.