I’m breaking up with Podia (affiliate link). Officially, I mean. I will still be helping my clients who are on there, I’m still following the platform as an expert, I’m still a podia pro. But, im personally moving on.
I’ve moved my main website off-platform last week. And that was phase 1.
Phase 2 has to do with the more technical and security aspect of selling. I’ve put some stuff for sale off-Podia for testing, and I’m waiting for volume to tell me if I’ve come up with a good system or if it still need some work.
I’m breaking up with Podia over differences of objectives. The platform wants to be a community-first space, and I don’t. (why does everything has to be a social media now?)
But I’m also motivated by a great need to not rely on platforms I don’t control the direction of (kinda left Notion (affiliate link) in the same way, when they turned AI native). We use those tools with all those features we technically pay for but that we never use. And I’m tired of having to wait for other to offer the stuff I really care about.
Luckily for my non-technical ass, I live at the most exciting time to have this need : the AI era !
I see a lot of creators around me experimenting with ai to replace their course provider or their blog, sometimes even their entire selling system. And I’m very inspired by it all.
It’s not all rainbows eh. There are reasons why platforms are still popular :
- ease of use
- no need to know what you want
- other people are in charge of maintenance and repair
- onboarding and stuff
- Security and compliance with global and national internet laws
But my oh my the freedom of doing whatever you want with your platform? Priceless so far.
And I feel like by having to ask yourself the hard questions of how you want to do things, you end up working on the actual good things to work on. Rather than accepting the default pretty looking stuff. A concrete example on : wow is a bad brief
Also you get to really understand how the magic of the web work. I’ve never learned as much about technical stuff as my time building my website. ALL THE WHILE, still having a blast adding the fun layers on top.
Bref. Tis the season to break up with platforms !