Podia — Easily sell memberships, online courses & digital downloads.

@mijustin Thanks so much, Justin! ♥ We’re really excited about our three big updates today: - MEMBERSHIPS! Creators can now use Podia to sell membership subscriptions to their audience. - Our new name (we used to be Coach). - $3M in funding from some amazing people who believe in our mission of helping creators earn more money. While we’ve always let creators sell online courses and digital downloads, Memberships are different in one big way: they generate predictable recurring revenue each month. With the help of many of our customers, we’ve built what we believe is the best and easiest-to-use membership platform on the market. What makes Podia Memberships different from any other tool out there, aside from its simplicity, is that it seamlessly integrates with your other Podia digital products. So if you have Online Courses or Digital Downloads with Podia, you can include them as Membership perks with a single click. You can now sell your Online Courses, Digital Downloads and Memberships from a single digital storefront, and keep all of your customers and payments — across all of your products — in one place. As for the new name… For a while now, we’ve wanted to change our name to something that better represented what we help our creators do. We’d been brainstorming new names, when a few months ago, a customer suggested the name Podia. Definition: The plural form of podium, a small platform on which a person may stand to be seen by an audience. Right away, it felt perfect. Podia captures exactly what our product helps our creators do: stand and be seen by their readers, fans and customers. A podium creates authority, and authority is the foundation on which thousands of our creators have built their online businesses on. We love the name, and we hope you do, too. And as for the funding…well, we’re going to use it to move faster and build a better product — and company — to serve creators 😃 As always, I’ll be around all day answering questions, so please feel free to chime in. I’d love to hear what you think!

@mijustin @spencerfry awesome platform! Any difference in branding options between the two plans? Any thoughts of including a lifetime 48 hour special for product hunters (as a holiday special 😉 ) ? Love the UI!

@kieranchase Yes, all of the money goes directly to you via PayPal and/or Stripe. We don't take any fees. 👍

@frank_denbow I've wanted to change the name for 3 years now, but could never come up with the right name that was also an available (or relatively inexpensive) .com. Then I was discussing with one of our customers about the name and he suggested Podia (the plural form of podium). It clicked and one month later we bought the domain name. 😀 In terms of conversion, it really hurt things for a number of reasons: 1. People couldn't Google us 2. People used our full .com to refer to us rather than our name 3. People had preconceived notions about what we did 4. It wasn't brandable ...and a lot more bad stuff.

@frank_denbow Also everyone thought we sold purses 😆

@frank_denbow @mackenziechild Definitely got more than our fair share of questions about Coach purses. 🤣

@spencerfry @bryantchou Thanks so much Bryant :) So glad we used Webflow for the site. It allowed me to work so much faster, and actually launch on time!

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@smalter Thanks so much, Walter. 😍

@jeffrey_wyman it reminds me of "Love Heart" sweets! https://www.google.ie/search?q=l...:

@jeffrey_wyman Hehe, glad you like it! I went for something fun / inviting / approachable, and ended up with the bright / pastel color palette :) And now I'm craving ice cream lol.

@weirdowizard Thank you. I've hated the old name for 3 years now.

@tyvdh Awesome to hear, Tyler. Let us know if you have any feedback/suggestions.

@tyvdh "Oh my gosh this makes me so happy!" Yaaaas 🙌. Goal achieved :)

@tarekp Oh, man. Thanks so much for the kind words. Really appreciate it. 😍 You almost brought me to tears...

@srikanth_noah echoed my thoughts re Podio vs Podia. Luckily, those vowels are at opposing ends of the keyboard so hopefully typos will be minimal.

@kylefox @danno Thanks Dan 😍

@yanivgoldenberg Thanks so much, Yaniv!!

@richp_ Thanks so much, Rich. 😍

@supermombartz Thanks so much, Sascha! Glad you're liking the changes.

@vit1251 We support a bunch of different countries (both languages and currencies). What country are you talking specifically?

@spencerfry current time Russia language. It may be in domain podia.ru ?

@vit1251 We haven't translated podia.com, but the translations we do have are for the storefronts: http://help.podia.com/account-ma...

@leah_gibbs Thanks! Please let us know if you have any questions at all.