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Udacity has laid off 5% of staff since August
- wpdev_63 8y agoNot surprising since the competition offers much more complete courses at a better price.
- sxp62000 8y agoApart from the price, I prefer Udemy courses because I can check ratings and reviews, so I know what I am paying for. With Udacity, it's a bit of a mystery. It's like signing up for an interesting class in college and realizing the professor is bad later. Also, it really bothers me that the names Udemy and Udacity are so similar!!
- Kagerjay 8y agohonestly wish all these MOOC's would just adopt something similar to Udemy. Its just miles better than everything else out there in terms of its video UI, course reviews, pricing, etc. Udemy doesn't have as much deep computer science topics though found elsewhere though.
- segmondy 8y agoUdemy is good for beginners, but suffers in quality for most courses.
- AzzieElbab 8y agoDitto for udacity. Although Peter Norvigs course is outstanding
- ckdarby 8y agoWhen did laying off 5% of staff be worthy of HN?
- tyingq 8y agoVC funded unicorn that has clearly stopped growing. Why wouldn't that be on HN?
- ausjke 8y agoWhenever I need an online course I found myself always checking out udemy. For academic courses you have edx, coursera etc, so what is making udacity stand-out of the rest?
- radicalgold 8y agoWell competitors are working on improving their service while udacity did not. Like someone mentioned, they don't really stand out much