Fellow Hackers,<p>I'm a startup founder, and a little over a year ago I set out to build a "Wikipedia for courses". I ended up building a publishing platform - the idea was to make it extremely easy for anybody to produce highly interactive, online courses (without, and then easy for anybody else to learn from them).<p>Pensieve: www.pensieve.net<p>From an infrastructure standpoint, the platform has been quite mature and powerful - anybody can come to the site, and immediately create interactive courses, and put in assessments, assignments ... etc. We generally receive solid approval of our product.<p>However, our success at programming has been matched by our inability to gain traction. Users don't come for infrastructure, they come for content or because of your brand name - without either, nobody will come. Since then, Coursera and EdX rose, and due to their names, academic relationships, excellent funding, and access to a large body of quality content - they are growing at an insane pace.<p>The last thing I would want would be to be a "me too" type of company. The thing is, that I believe the we <i>still</i> provide a major value which I haven't yet seen replicated. I've seen lots of content distributors, but I haven't seen a platform which makes it possible (and easy) for you or me to make a course that is more than just a youtube video channel / wiki.<p>I've tried several things (most promisingly targeting the corporate training market), but I'm interested in your opinions - how would you move forward and get traction?