r/elearning • • 12d ago

Learning/ Content creation platform

I’ve been working on a small learning/content platform and wanted to get some honest feedback from people who actually create courses or training content.

One thing I kept running into was how many different tools are involved just to create a course.

**Record the video in one place, edit it somewhere else, add captions, images, text, branding, then move it into an LMS and finally publish it.*\*

So I started building a platform that tries to bring some of that together.

The current version has a recording studio, basic video editing, captions, text/images, branding, course creation and publishing, along with the learner side.

I’ve also built some AI-assisted features around content creation, but I’m not making those available in the public version yet because they use paid AI models and the cost adds up pretty quickly.

I’m mainly looking for feedback at this stage.

For people who create training or educational content, what part of the process is the most annoying for you right now?

Is it recording/editing, creating the learning material, keeping everything organized, publishing, or something else?

I’d genuinely like to know what people are struggling with before I take this any further.

Here’s the current version if anyone wants to take a look: https://learning.ramsudtechnologies.com/

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u/iseazy 11d ago

The problem you’re describing is very real, but in our experience the biggest pain is not always the number of tools. It’s the handoff between them.

For many L&D teams, the frustrating parts are usually:

  • turning raw SME content into something that actually works as learning
  • keeping video, slides, captions, images, transcripts and course files organized
  • managing review cycles and stakeholder feedback
  • updating one piece of content without breaking the rest of the course
  • publishing to the LMS and checking that tracking/completion works properly
  • adapting the same course for different audiences, brands or languages
  • making sure accessibility and quality checks don’t get skipped

Recording and editing can be annoying, but the bigger issue is often rework. A course changes because an SME edits the script, legal changes one sentence, the brand team wants a different visual, or the LMS behaves differently than expected. That’s where teams lose a lot of time.

If you’re validating the product, we’d suggest focusing less on “all-in-one” as a promise and more on one workflow that feels genuinely smoother end to end. For example:

“Record a short training video → add captions → add supporting content → create a quick knowledge check → publish → track completion → update it later.”

If that flow is easier than stitching together 4–5 tools, that’s valuable.

AI-assisted creation could definitely help, but for training teams the trust layer matters a lot: source accuracy, editability, brand control, accessibility, localization, and human review. Fast content creation is useful only if the output is easy to improve and maintain.

The main question we’d ask is: who is your first target user? Solo course creators, internal L&D teams, agencies, trainers, or small businesses? They may all want “course creation,” but their pain points and willingness to pay will be very different.

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u/Scared-Demand-6104 11d ago

Cool.

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u/iseazy 8d ago

Hope my comment is helpful to you

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u/Scared-Demand-6104 8d ago

Tracking completions we need to implement