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Ask HN: I'm building an open source LMS. What features you would like to see?

by codextremist on 4/1/21, 11:07 AM with 7 comments

Our team will start building today an open source LMS. We'll charge only for a cloud-hosted version and per-transaction if one decides to use our payment gateway (users may use any other if they want to).We'll make sure that self-hosting the service is simple and well documented. Our LMS will be api-first and build from ground up to integrate with services and apps in a marketplace. What are the missing features on competitors? What is currently your preferred LMS?

  • by alexc05 on 4/1/21, 11:51 AM

    You posted twice so I'm picking the older one to reply to.

    I don't work in e-learning, but the agency I work at used to have a whole line of business around learning solutions.

    Lots of talk of SCORM and the like.

    I'll trawl through my LinkedIn for people who might be able to help you build your feature set.

    I can't promise they'll have time for it, bit I can try for you.

    Do you have a link-back or place on the web where they can reach you?

    If I make a post on LinkedIn for you, is there someone I can refer them to?

    I'm not certain the educators and executives in the LMS space will want to create an account on HN to talk to you, but the might send a note on LinkedIn or an email.

  • by tsjq on 4/1/21, 11:22 AM

    What is LMS ?