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I love what Codeacademy is doing, but hope they'll be rolling out some meatier lesson content with that 2m round before too long. The entire venturebeat-post-worthy jQuery lessons take about 3 minutes to go through (http://www.codecademy.com/courses/jquery-and-the-dom/1#!/exe...)

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I'm the co-founder of Codecademy - we'll definitely be rolling out meatier content soon. This is just a peek at what some of our beta users have created. If you'd like to create a course, sign up - we're rolling out access to the course creator slowly to make sure our content is all high quality. Let me know if you have any other feedback!

+1 - I love your guys' model, just looking forward to seeing some bigger course projects!

I've been watching Codecademy off and on for a while and I think your comment finally touched on something that I seem to have missed this whole time: you're not focusing on creating the content, you're focusing on making it easy for people to create and find high-quality content.

I see you have a signup form for course creators, but I'm not seeing any data on what exactly you want to focus on (is reverse-engineering out of scope, for instance?), whether or not course creators are paid, etc. I'd love to be involved, but just don't have enough information to go on yet; if you could fill in the blanks, I'd greatly appreciate it. Keep up the good work.

Hi daeken - you're right. We're going to be a lot more than a content company.

I'd love to share what we're working on with you - feel free to send me an email at contact(at)codecademy(dot)com and I'll fill you in.

Very cool! I just put in an application to create a novice python course. If I like the experience of creating a course, I hope to make more.

I haven't read a whole lot about your guys' operation, in fact I didn't even know the content was user submitted, but I'm wondering how you're moderating content for quality. I ask because as I was checking out the site last night, I was noticing typos and grammatical errors here and there. There are also technical downfalls, which are probably not as easy to fix.

If anything, a lazy way to get information on this would be to 'robustify' the feedback tool. If I notice a typo, or a bug, am I happy? No, not really. But I'm not confused either. The feedback tool should also act as a quality assurance tool IMHO.

We're editing the content in house at the moment. We react to feedback in real time so any bugs you saw last night have likely been fixed (we saw a few on the courses that were fixed around 20 minutes after the course was released).

We'll work on fixing the feedback tool too.

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