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Rajat Saxena @rajatsx.bsky.social · 4m

CourseLit’s marketing site, email sequences, and community all run on CourseLit itself.

We’re building a world-class product for everyone, by using it ourselves first.

Rajat Saxena @rajatsx.bsky.social · 1h

I’m starting to think:

All-in-one platforms raise the stakes.

If even one tool feels weak, the user questions the entire product and churns.

A focused product with one strong tool gives fewer chances for disappointment.

More tools mean more surface area for failure.

Rajat Saxena @rajatsx.bsky.social · 1h

Large accounts always say, “Money is not important.”

That’s because they’ve made it, and it’s no longer a scarce resource for them.

They should stop taking the moral high ground in front of folks who are struggling or just starting out.

Money does matter.

Rajat Saxena @rajatsx.bsky.social · 1d

I use no-brainer tech to build my apps.

It ensures that tech won’t get in the way of delivering my dream apps.

It’s @nextjs, @typescript, @tailwindcss, @MongoDB, and @Docker.

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Rajat Saxena @rajatsx.bsky.social · 1d

Saddened to see that Cloudflare R2 does not support bucket policies. Now, I have to redo my entire MediaLit architecture to support R2.

Rajat Saxena @rajatsx.bsky.social · 3d

After 2 weeks of relentless building and testing, I have finally hit 'ship it'.

The resumable uploads are now supported on MediaLit.cloud and hence on CourseLit too.

Rajat Saxena @rajatsx.bsky.social · 3d

Test. Test. Test.

Here is me watching:

- Server disk space
- Browser progress
- Network activity

Rajat Saxena @rajatsx.bsky.social · 4d

I am building the best open-source online platform to sell courses and run communities @CourseLit

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Rajat Saxena @rajatsx.bsky.social · 4d

Users complained about large files not uploading properly to CourseLit.

So, we went back to the drawing board and reworked the file upload experience.

Here’s everything new we’ve introduced:

* Integrated TUS in MediaLit for reliable large uploads
* Rebuilt a fresh uploader UI

Releasing soon...

Rajat Saxena @rajatsx.bsky.social · 5d

A fresh file-uploading experience is coming to CourseLit very soon:

- Progress indicator
- Better support for large file uploads
- Fresh UI

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Rajat Saxena @rajatsx.bsky.social · Jun 12

After a month long hustle, I have finally shipped a Theme builder to CourseLit.

It’s out in version v0.60.0

courselit.app/blog/introdu...

Introducing Themes | Blog | CourseLit

Sell online courses and digital downloads from your own website

courselit.app

Rajat Saxena @rajatsx.bsky.social · Jan 29

I have been testing Communities in @CourseLit internally for some time now.

The community permissions workflow doesn’t feel natural.

Back to the drawing board. 🙇

Rajat Saxena @rajatsx.bsky.social · Jan 13

Added realtime notifications to CourseLit, to make the communities more engaging.

How does it look? 👀

Rajat Saxena @rajatsx.bsky.social · Jan 28

Why I don’t care about Deepseek reading my data: 👇

I use it with code that’s already open-source, so they might have scraped it already.

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Rajat Saxena @rajatsx.bsky.social · Jan 19

Just discovered that bolt.diy is open-source 🤯

GitHub - stackblitz-labs/bolt.diy: Prompt, run, edit, and deploy full-stack web applications using any LLM you want!

Prompt, run, edit, and deploy full-stack web applications using any LLM you want! - stackblitz-labs/bolt.diy

bolt.diy

Rajat Saxena @rajatsx.bsky.social · Jan 18

What are you going to work on this weekend?

Rajat Saxena @rajatsx.bsky.social · Jan 18

🚨Builders!

Choosing Rust or Go is not going to increase your revenue.

Keep using whatever language or tech stack you are using and focus on marketing.

Reposted by Rajat Saxena

Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · Jan 14

Did you know you can center both vertically and horizontally in CSS now, without Flexbox or Grid?

Throw this on your block level element, and it works:

align-content: center;
justify-items: center;

And my trick to remembering it's those properties? It's the ones I never use normally 😆

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Rajat Saxena @rajatsx.bsky.social · Jan 15

Building a completely open-source system like @CourseLit poses a unique challenge. 👇

You cannot use paid third-party providers because not everyone will want to get a paid account on a third-party service to self-host the system.

Therefore, I have to build all the subsystems.

Rajat Saxena @rajatsx.bsky.social · Jan 13

Had a fun time implementing server-sent events for the very first time. 🚀

Also learned:
•You can’t (yet) proxy to an SSE endpoint via @nextjs.org rewrites. The connection will remain in a pending state.

•The SSE ecosystem is pretty stable and quite easy to implement in JS.

Rajat Saxena @rajatsx.bsky.social · Jan 13

Added realtime notifications to CourseLit, to make the communities more engaging.

How does it look? 👀

Rajat Saxena @rajatsx.bsky.social · Jan 13

Had a fun time implementing server-sent events for the very first time. 🚀

Also learned:
•You can’t (yet) proxy to an SSE endpoint via @nextjs.org rewrites. The connection will remain in a pending state.

•The SSE ecosystem is pretty stable and quite easy to implement in JS.

Rajat Saxena @rajatsx.bsky.social · Jan 13

Added realtime notifications to CourseLit, to make the communities more engaging.

How does it look? 👀

Rajat Saxena @rajatsx.bsky.social · Jan 13

Added realtime notifications to CourseLit, to make the communities more engaging.

How does it look? 👀

Rajat Saxena @rajatsx.bsky.social · Jan 4

Inviting all up-and-coming creators 🚀

Are you looking for an all-in-one platform to sell courses, build a website, and do email marketing?

We’re offering a 1-month FREE subscription to CourseLit platform in exchange for regular feedback.

Reply “WANT,” and we’ll be in touch!

Rajat Saxena @rajatsx.bsky.social · Dec 21

It’s always “Developer vs. Business Owner” in my mind when it comes to tests. 🙅‍♂️

As a developer, automated tests save manual testing efforts and make my code more change-friendly.

As an entrepreneur, writing tests makes my TTM longer and prevents me from shipping faster.

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Rajat Saxena @rajatsx.bsky.social · Dec 20

I’ve been using GitHub Copilot a lot lately.

Here’s what I’ve learned:

- The Copilot edits are much better when it can spot similar-looking code in the file.

- Editing long files takes a while, and you have to sit through a lengthy spinner.

What are your learnings? Comment 👇

Reposted by Rajat Saxena

GitHub @github.com · Dec 18

A new free tier of GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code.

✅ 2,000 code completions per month
💬 50 chat messages per month
💫 Models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT-4o
♥️ More fun for you

Check it out today!

Oh yeah, and we passed 150M developers on GitHub 💅 github.blog/news-insight...

Announcing 150M developers and a new free tier for GitHub Copilot in VS Code

Come and join 150M developers on GitHub that can now code with Copilot for free in VS Code.

github.blog

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Rajat Saxena @rajatsx.bsky.social · Dec 17

Sounds about right.

Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · Dec 17

This feels like exactly the use case the cloud is ideal for.

For a 10x load: don't invest in 10x infra that sits idle 99% of the year. Scale up using virtual cores on the cloud, pay for those high-load days, then scale back to "normal"

Shopify uses GCP