We create most of our courses at Boot.dev in-house, but we also love to collaborate with talented authors! If you’re interested in creating a course for Boot.dev, here’s some preliminary info about how we work:
- Course Topic: We organize courses into larger learning paths, and our goal is always to improve the learning paths, not to simply ship “random” new courses.
- We have an open roadmap on GitHub here where we list the learning paths that are under development.
- Any course in a learning path that doesn’t yet have a link is open for authorship!
- If you feel passionate about a topic that isn’t listed, or think the structure of the learning path itself could be improved, feel free to still reach out to us with your ideas.
- Course Style: Boot.dev courses are text-first, and highly interactive. While video is a part of our courses, it’s not the primary medium. Be sure to check other Boot.dev courses to get a feel for our style and structure.
- Compensation: We pay authors on a contract basis, and purchase the course material outright as it’s published. We also offer commissions on sales made via the author’s unique referral code.
- We do this so that we can make updates to the course as needed without needing to nag authors to keep things up to date
- We also want to make sure that authors are compensated for their time, even on courses that might not have super broad appeal, but are nonetheless important to the learning path.
- Collaboration: Authors spearhead their course, but we (Boot.dev) do provide a lot of support along the way. We have in-house editors, animators, and developers that will help to copyedit, animate, and test the course material before it goes live.
- Who can write a course?: We want to work with folks that are experts on the topic they want to write about. That doesn’t mean you need to have a huge social following, but some existing credibility with the subject matter is important.
If you’re interested in creating a course, send an email to lane at boot dot dev with the following information:
- A bit about yourself and your background
- The course you’d like to create
- Any questions you have about the process
We’ll get back to you as soon as we can!