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REC From "How I Create My Online Courses", November 2025
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One platform, students from all over the world.

"If you had told me back in 2021 that I could sell my product to an audience from different parts of the world by just focusing on one social platform, I would not have believed that."

I started selling my first online course in October 2021. Around a thousand days later it had taught more than 1,300 students, roughly one a day, with an average rating of 4.0. I have been creating online courses for five years now, and they bring in recurring revenue every month.

In 2022, I started an educational YouTube channel from scratch. Today, I have paying students from more than 40 countries around the world.

In 2024, I launched another YouTube channel with just 3 subscribers, and my first video received only 20 views. Today, the channel has grown to 4,070 subscribers, and my most-watched tutorial has surpassed 100,000 views.

"Overnight success is rare. It's about being consistent and believing in yourself along the way."

Five tools, one workflow.

The exact software I use to make my courses and videos, from the first idea to the thumbnail. Over the years I have tested countless tools. Some improved my workflow, others broke it completely.

  1. 00:30

    Capture

    "Notion is like my second brain in my content workflow. And the best part is, I'm still using the free version." Every idea, link and teaching resource lives in one place, instead of scattered over paper, phone notes and random apps.

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  2. 03:46

    Record

    Screen, camera and audio in one recorder. "Most of them look fancy with tons of features." What matters is a simple, stable workflow that just records.

    Watch this step
  3. 08:34

    Clean up

    Transcript-based editing: delete the false takes as text and the video follows. "Once you get your transcript based editing, it's very hard to go back to the old way of cutting videos manually."

    Watch this step
  4. 17:50

    Edit

    Camtasia in 2021, then Final Cut Pro and a pile of plugins. "Finally, I discovered DaVinci Resolve and never looked back ever since." Start with the free version, upgrade only when you need the extras.

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  5. 19:57

    Visuals

    Landing pages, ads and YouTube thumbnails. Easy, cloud based and on any device, and the background remover is my favourite feature: "it has saved me countless hours across different projects."

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Edit it like a document.

The way I clean up every video, tried on 24 seconds of mine. Tap any word to cut it, or press and drag across a phrase. Then press play: the video skips everything you crossed out.

0:00 / 0:24 Nothing cut yet
intro_take_final.txt

Try it: cut "For example," and the list of places, and the thought still lands in fewer seconds.

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The Airport Test, from "Will It Fly?" by Pat Flynn

Five years from now you bump into an old friend at an airport. "How have you been?" You answer: "Amazing! Life couldn't be better!" And you truly mean it.
What would need to happen for you to feel that way?

Family

  • Lunch or dinner once a week with my parents and siblings
  • Quality time with my wife every evening
  • Annual family trips

Professional

your list

Health

your list

Wealth

your list

Then ask: if I keep doing what I'm doing now, will I realistically get there in five years?

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