I built a self-hosted course platform in Clojure
Details
- External ID
- 47165813
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- 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
- —
- 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.
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- Cljbang.el · hn · 2026-07-22 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Local LLM code-generation with Gemma 4 e2B via JSON AST to Clojure · hn · 2026-05-19 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Igor · hn · 2026-03-09 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Quokka · hn · 2026-09-18 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Edsger · hn · 2026-06-02 · 264 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- I Built a Tool to Turn YouTube into Structured Courses · hn · 2025-12-29 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Limabean · hn · 2026-03-03 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a vertical saas tool for Insurance yet.