Courselit

Judgement

What it is

Complete system

What it does

A platform for selling courses and digital downloads and publishing a blog on your own branded site, as a Teachable or Thinkific alternative.

Adopt it when

A solo creator wants to sell courses without platform fees and can host a Node app.

Watch out

Still pre-1.0 and mainly one company's work.

Ready for

Usable

Runs as

Self-hosted server and cloud service

Built with

TypeScript, Next.js and MongoDB

How established

Established: started 7 years ago, latest release v0.74.2.

What the license allows

Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Courselit → TypeScript → Go → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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