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I built a self-hosted course platform in Clojure

Details

External ID
47165813
Source
HN
Company
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Product
I built a self-hosted course platform in Clojure
Website domain
clojure.stream
Launched
Feb. 26, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
59
Upvotes percentile
0.8335579514824798
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.

Enrichment

Theme
developer tools and programming utilities
Vertical
Education
Function
Vertical SaaS
Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
self-hosted course platform built in clojure
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes It is a standard web application for hosting courses, managing user authentication, and presenting educational content.

Discussion

13 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Podia (previous platform), spec/malli (for validation), Statically typed languages

Concerns raised: Scrolling performance issues (slow on Firefox), Pricing displayed in CHF instead of USD/EUR/GBP by default, Dynamic typing risks (missing contracts, schema versioning, field validation), No source code availability/GitHub link

Feature requests: Country detection or currency selection option, Support for EUR/GBP/USD currency options, Automatic currency conversion based on user location

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 188 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #36 of 189 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 116 days after the earliest competitor.

Other launches for this product

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