🔍 The video is a comparison between a community building platform called School and its competitors.
🏫 The first competitor discussed is Circle, and the video showcases School's simple landing page and features.
💻 The video provides an overview of other competitors such as Mighty Networks, Kajabi, Thinkific, Teachable, FB Groups, Discord, Reddit, Podia, and a mystery platform.
💰 Skool offers a pricing of $99/month that includes unlimited courses and members, along with various community tools.
🔁 Circle provides similar features like community creation, organized discussions, and brand ownership, with options for recurring subscriptions and integrations.
🚀 Mighty networks promises faster community growth, has a high rating, and offers a free trial on their robust platform.
👥 Skool and Mighty are community building platforms with different features and templates.
💼 Mighty is more expensive than Skool, but offers native live streaming, chat, messaging, and events.
💰 Kajabi is an AI-powered platform for setting up online courses, but it is more expensive than Skool.
📚 There are several community building platforms available, such as Kajabi, School, Thinkific, and Teachable.
💰 Thinkific is slightly cheaper than School, starting at $49/month for unlimited courses and one community.
🖥️ Teachable is similar to School in terms of features, but its user interface has not been updated in a while.
🎓 Skool offers unlimited content hosting, unlike other platforms with limits on published types.
👥 Skool surpasses Facebook groups as it allows hosting and selling courses, in addition to community interaction.
💬 Comparing Skool to Discord, the key differences in functionality and features are not mentioned.
📚 Community Discord and Reddit are platforms good for community building, but not suitable for hosting courses.
💻 Podia is a platform that offers website building, course hosting, community management, and email functionality at competitive pricing.
🔍 Discord requires additional platforms or methods to sell courses, while Reddit has strict rules and potential for banning subreddits.
📚 Podia focuses on web design and templating while Skool focuses on the back end and community aspect.
💻 Building a custom app like Skool can be very expensive, costing tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.
🏆 Try Skool and other competitor tools for free to determine the best tool for starting a course business.