Ship a course without burning out.
Plan the curriculum, record without dread, run launch week — all on one canvas.
Most courses die between the outline and the first lesson recorded. Not because the creator stops caring — because the production stack (Notion, Loom, Carrd, ConvertKit, Stripe) drags everything sideways. This guide keeps the project on a single board so you can teach, not configure.
Start with the promise, not the outline.
Open a new board. In the AI prompt: "Course on X for Y. Outcome: Z after eight weeks." Hilla returns a module breakdown, lesson list per module, and a recording order.
Adjust by dragging. The first edit you want to make is usually merging lessons that say similar things.
Decide the format once.
Pick the format that matches the promise: cohort, drip, on-demand, or community-led. Note it on the board.
Format decides everything downstream — landing page, billing model, recording schedule. Locking it on day one removes 80% of future indecision.
Lock the recording schedule.
Use the calendar widget on the board to schedule recording blocks. Two blocks of 90 minutes per week is enough for an eight-week course.
Treat the blocks as appointments with your audience. If something else tries to land on them, that something else is the thing that loses.
Record raw, edit ruthlessly.
First take. No teleprompter. If a lesson takes more than two passes, the script is wrong — fix the structure on the board, not the delivery.
Drop the raw file into the lesson card. Mark it shipped. The board now tells you where you actually are.
Build the landing page in parallel.
Don't wait until module four to write the sales page. Open a Landing frame and draft the headline, outcome, and three objections by week one.
Customers will tell you which objections are real. Update the page as you hear them.
Launch week without flailing.
Use the Launch frame: pre-launch list, four-email sequence, two social posts, one live demo. Sequence them against the open date.
Hilla pings you when a card is overdue. The launch is mostly executing what you already decided, not deciding under pressure.
A course is just a structured promise to a customer. Keep the structure honest on a single board, and you'll ship it in the calendar you set — not the one you'll resentfully reschedule three times.
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