Disclaimer: I don't know enough about the legality/planned dev of CodeAcademy to know if this is actually feasible. It seems like one of the best ways to compe

Disclaimer: I don't know enough about the legality/planned dev of CodeAcademy to know if this is actually feasible. It seems like one of the best ways to compensate creators (and support another young company) would be to integrate the flattr platform. members, would create CodeAcademy lessons and at the end/completion of each lesson, users would be prompted to rate the course, write a few sentences of feedback (e.g. "What was the most interesting part of the lesson? What did you learn? What do you still have difficulty understanding?) and then are asked to click the flattr button and flatter the course author if they feel it benefited them. Benefits include payment to authors, another metric to evaluate course quality, and a payment scheme that doesn't feel like it is draining your user's wallet. Though again, I defer to my disclaimer.