Inbox Academy

Quick backstory. A while back I found out about an email based learning platform that used to exist. Courses delivered straight to your inbox, no app, no dashboard, no video. It shut down years ago and nobody replaced it.

That bugged me. Email is one of the few genuinely universal technologies left. It works on slow connections, needs no new account or app, is harder to censor than most websites, and everyone already knows how to use it. That's a real accessibility story, not just a nostalgia trip.

So I built django-email-learning, an open source Django library for running an email based course platform. Content management, learner progress tracking, scheduled delivery, certificates, all of it.

The problem is most people who'd want this don't want to self host a Django app, configure database and LLM integrations, or manage infrastructure. So I built Inbox Academy, the hosted version. Free tier to try it, $29/month Professional plan if you want to actually run a business on it.

I just soft launched after a long stretch of perfectionism getting in my own way. No customers yet. Would love feedback from anyone who's built or taught an online course, especially if you've ever felt like existing platforms assume too much (bandwidth, a fancy device, patience for another login).

Link if you want to poke around: inboxacademy.io
Library on PyPI: django-email-learning