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Show HN: Life Skills Website (skill-trek.com)
14 points by DLarsen on Nov 20, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
Over a year ago, I purchased a small online business selling life skills curriculum to homeschool and special education families. The main asset was the library of 400+ lessons, each including a short video and PDF. The revenue appeared to reflect meaningful demand for such a program. At the time I purchased the business, the delivery mechanisms were pretty fragmented and browsing the lessons was all behind the paywall. Today I'm releasing a whole new website that brings (I hope) a more modern experience. Principally you can now browse all of the life skills library. I'm also hoping that this approach lends itself to better SEO as well.

While this is pretty far from being able to sustain the family from an income perspective, it's been really neat to connect with families who are taking the initiative to raise capable young adults.




This serves a great need and if I had a kid I would certainly consider using it. However, after browsing for a few minutes I don't see any way to actually preview the content. It looks like there are some helpful videos but I would suggest making at least a few available to preview so prospective customers can evaluate the quality. You might also consider a homepage video that features the same people in the rest of the videos. That would be an opportunity to explain the site and build some trust.

Good luck on your venture!


Great feedback. There are several sample lessons, but from your feedback I see how I can make them easier to find.


This is great, congratulations on getting it to this point. I’ll check out the curriculum.




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