Skillshare Writings

Stop Paying $400 for Online Courses

My friend showed me an online “course” that cost $400 (technically $399). When I looked, I saw…

Rise of the Product Managing Designer

The design team at Skillshare does a lot more than just design. We’ve learned that to be as…

Build a Company for the Next 100 Years

Most industries as we know them today will be unrecognizable to us in the next 10 years.

In every industry, there are two kinds of companies: companies that create arbitrary value or companies that create real value for the world…

Skillshare Engineering Team Highlights

Culture & How We Work

More Than Just Mobile

How and why we created our own responsive grid system.

Here at Skillshare, providing access to education is a core part of our mission. One of our main initiatives in the last year has been to shift from building a web…

Why the Future of Education is Online and Open

Improving Site Performance and Reliability by Removing SQL Joins

For young companies trying to build a product towards market fit, iterative speed is key. You need to be able to build, test, and refine features quickly in order to outrace the competition (and your burn rate). In…