SQL Habit: online course about data and SQL, give me feedback

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I like that the course is using real life use cases as examples. People can get values by going through each single video.

It also shows that you are targeting entry level customers. What makes you decide to target this user segments?

I was thinking making a SQL booster course for developers because I found it even for technical people, if you are not using SQL everyday, it takes time to figure out the syntax and certain way of thinking to get the queries right.

1. Super clear and professional grade website!
2. Pricing is straight forward
3. More social proof would be great. I saw that a couple people from Blinkist took your course. It might be good to have a list of companies on the site for further social proof

1. Very clear! I really dig the approach you're taking. SQL is an area I'm relatively weak in, so this course really interests me, and I like the reality-based fake data approach you're taking.

2. Yep, pricing is crystal clear. $99 strikes me as high, but you have free lessons available, so assuming the free ones are well done, I could see that price barrier being overcome easily enough.

3. Nothing I can think of that I would drop at the moment, though this statement really struck me and so I'll expound on it a little: "Practical SQL course for Product Managers, Marketers, Designers, Software Engineers, CEOs and more"

So... It's for everybody? :P You even say so further down on the page.

This is not a product for everybody.

There are people in the world who have to interact with SQL systems, who don't know SQL, and we're feeling the pain from that lack of knowledge. There's also many organizations where you couldn't run your own SQL queries even if you wanted to (everything is too locked down) - But maybe there's value in a local approach where you load your own data into PostgreSQL or something and analyze it. I don't know! I lack enough SQL knowledge to know if that'd be helpful - I'd probably use Excel or write a custom Node.js program before reaching for a database - Maybe that's making me unproductive, you tell me.

I think it's fine for you to target all those categories of people, but I think you might benefit from separate pages you can tailor to each type of person. "Oh, you're in Marketing? Here's the challenges I know you're facing, and here's how knowing SQL will solve them."

The pains and limitations of each category are different as well. A product manager might be able to cajole his way into running SQL queries on a live system or one close to being live, but a designer might have a harder time, and might have to stick with a local solution. A CEO might not have the time to set something up locally, so if there's cloud-based solutions he can load data into to do analysis, he might appreciate that.

Four final thoughts:

1. It's called "SQL Habit" but I didn't catch anything on the page about habits in particular. Am I supposed to treat this as like "daily flashcards/exercises for SQL"? Do you send reminders or otherwise employ research-based psychology tricks to keep me coming back and building up a habit? Does this prepare me for figuring out myself how to build a habit? Explain the habit aspect or give the product a different name.

2. I didn't see anything about what sort of skill level this will teach me at. I assume because of the "this is for everyone" comment on the page that this is a pretty basic course. Will you provide resources for digging into more advanced concepts? Do you already provide those? Is this actually an advanced course that's not telling me it's advanced?

3. What flavor of SQL will the course use? While SQL is a standard, my limited interactions with it have lead me to believe that it only pretends to be a standard. Is this going to teach me MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLLite, MS SQL Server, something else? Will you be going over the changes we'll need to make based on the different flavor of SQL server we'll encounter in the wild?

4. Your "For Software Engineers" blurb needs to be rewritten. "There’s a big chance that one of your projects is running on..." No kidding. You've written what you're hoping for as an author. Don't tell me about my environment, speak to me about the pain I feel when I see a running SQL system I can't interact with because I'm afraid of breaking it. Or the trepidation I feel when a coworker writes a utility that relies on a SQL server as a backend, and I know I'm gonna be the one who has to maintain it later on. Or how I could become a better developer by analyzing error events logged to the DB by our users. Or something else. You could literally save me stress, or help me raise my income, or give me access to useful information that was previously barred from me. Talk about something along those lines.

Overall, while I've provided some criticism above - do not take it negatively. These are all just things I think might improve things.

You've got a great looking product! :D

I've bookmarked it for later because I want to come back to it and maybe play with it a bit.

I've started to read a couple SQL books, and they're very dry and often very light on practical application, so I stopped reading them. Your course might be something that could actually get me to learn this stuff.

Sadly, at the moment, I have no need to work with SQL, so taking this course might not have an impact on my day-to-day work. But this is a skill I've been lacking in for a while, so I'm intrigued.

Whew. If you read all that, thanks for reading :) Keep up the great work! :D

This is awesome. Always thought about creating something like this, congrats on actually doing it! :)