Hey everyone,
I’ve moved all my Clojure courses off Podia and onto a platform I built and self-host: clojure.stream
Some of you might know the courses — Reagent, Re-frame, Reitit, Datomic, and Pedestal. They’ve been on Podia for years, but I wanted full control over the platform and to build something tailored for a developer audience. So I did — in Clojure, all the way down.
The project has been growing organically for about 3-4 years now. Started as a shell over Podia, self-hosted on OpenBSD and a lot of libraries i wanted to use in anger, also a lot of back and forth over the years with @thheller and evolved from there — adding, removing, rewriting. The main reason for self-hosting; It felt like Podia is becoming a platform with way too many bells and whistles that i never used and it was hard for me to pay more, and more for those things.
What’s new:
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All content, accounts, and subscriptions migrated from Podia
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Prices lowered across the board — no more platform tax
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If you bought a course on Podia, restore your purchase at /settings/billing
For the ClojureVerse community — use code CLJVERSE for 20% off any course. Valid through March 10.
I’ll be sharing monthly updates on the platform going forward — new content, features, and improvements: https://clojure.stream/changelog
Happy to answer questions about the stack, the migration, or the courses. Feedback and bug reports always welcome.
Cheers, Jacek
Hi
First congrats, and second this is very expensive, 49 and 490 EUR is 79 and 790 Canadian
(or 58 and 580 USD)
I understand that maybe the pool of customer is small, and the price need to high to make sense
Pluralsight which have thousands of course is less than half the price (when you get it at their annual 40% or 50% discount)
And that being said, at half the price and with thousand of course pluralsight is still a bad deal
considering many course are old, youtube have a ton of free stuff , and we can learn with AI
your site have 6 courses , and even the workshops are not included
personally i cannot say what would be a fair price, I noticed in general that many specialized courses site are equally expensive (or almost, i think you are the most expensive by quiet a bit), and i think this is not a good trend
Again congrats 
Let us know how well it does
Just as a note: 49 EUR is the old price, 29 CHF is the new, lower price – about 33% cheaper.
That’s about 51 CAN or 37.50 USD. Or about 9 or 10 Starbucks coffees (large latte).
I wouldn’t consider that particularly expensive for a good video course about a niche technology (which we have to admit is what we’ve all chosen here).
Thanks for the correction! And the Starbucks math 
Just to add — the 29 CHF/month subscription gives you access to all courses. But if subscription isn’t your thing, every course is also available as a one-time purchase, own it forever. Those prices came down too.
Always open to feedback on pricing. Appreciate the honest conversation.
Let me be clear first and repeat and assert this
you are free to price your work anyway you want
but i checked the cost of individual courses and it was 238 cad (174 USD) per course
this is very high , excessively high
udemy have some courses priced at 100+, but many of them get sold at 90% and 80% percent discount during black friday and other discount season during the year
and those are usually 7+ hours courses , with very indepth content
i would also like to hear other people opinion on this, is it just me who think those prices are too high
Subscribe for one month at 51 CAN and go through as many courses as you want. Even two months subscription is only 102 CAN and, again, you have access to every single course and can take them all.
When I learned Clojure, it was from Amit Rathore (“Clojure in Action” author), and it was a half-day workshop for $199 (USD) – back in 2010. No downloads of material, no access to the material after that half day. And I had to drive to the workshop – it wasn’t even available online.
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