$184,300
paid out in his first twelve months
“I built the course from the questions I kept answering in code review. Now the tutor answers them at 2am, from my transcript, while I sleep.”
Tomás OliveiraStaff engineer · payments
Teach on Waypoint
Teach the job you do.Keep 70% of sales.
Pass four checks and your name carries a badge in about 11 days. The studio turns one line into six chapters, and payouts land on the 15th.
Studio draftDrafted in 4 min
Modern CSS layout for designers
6 chapters · 24 lessons
18 of the 24 lesson titles are in your words; 6 still read as the studio drafted them.
October payoutLands Nov 15
$896.00
Oct 1524 days to go
Your 70% of 20 course sales, and 5,000 Plus minutes.
See the splitWho teaches here
Every instructor here holds the job they teach
We confirm the job with the employer before a first course opens, so a learner can see who they are paying. Your name goes through the same four checks, and it carries the same badge once it passes.
3,100 Verified instructors
680K
Learners on Waypoint
We pay for every minute a Plus learner spends in your lessons.
41 languages, 96K on Plus
$38.6M
Instructor payouts, 2025
We send them on the 15th of each month, by bank or PayPal.
+42% on 2024, 38 currencies
$9,800
Median first year
What one course earned in its first twelve months.
2024 cohort, Top 10%: $41K
11 days
From application to badge
The median for all four checks. One applicant in five passes.
ID and job, Work and lesson
Earnings
Work out what a course pays
Pick a price, then set your sales and Plus minutes a month. The 70% share is written into the contract you sign.
One sale
At the price you set
$34.30
You keep 70% of a $49 sale
For a sale at $49, you keep $34.30 and Waypoint keeps $14.70.
Course price
Your month
Before refunds, which ran at 2.1% last year
Course sales a month
Plus minutes watched
5,000 minAt $0.042 a minute, last month's rate.
+$210from Plus
You'd keep
Sales and Plus together, before tax
$896
a month, $10,752 a year at this pace
- Course sales
- $686
- Plus minutes
- $210
How it works
Three steps to a first payout
Most instructors draft in the studio while the checks run, so the course is ready the week the badge lands.
11 days
median from application to badge
Instructors
All five kept the day job
They record after work and teach what they do all week, from payments engineering to type design.
4 min
from one line to her first syllabus
“The studio gave me six chapters in the order a type class runs. I folded them into four and recorded thirteen lessons over two weekends.”
Noor AzizType designer · studio
203 of 212
questions the tutor answered in September
“In September I read the nine it couldn't answer. Two of them turned into a new lesson on sampling, which is now the most replayed in the course.”
Ibrahim SalahML engineer · logistics
12,600
learners on a course she taught in Spanish
“I taught it in Spanish because that is how my team talks about data. Learners in Lisbon and São Paulo found it through the Portuguese captions.”
Lucía FerrerData scientist · public health
11 evenings
to record a course in French
“I recorded after the children were asleep. Before the kettle had boiled, the studio had cut the transcript into chapters.”
Claire DuboisCFO · SaaS
Tomás Oliveira, $184,300 paid out in his first twelve months
Application sent
Mina, your first check is booked
The call link is on its way to your inbox. Record your sample lesson in the studio before Nov 4.
- Identity document on a video callOct 23, morning
- Job confirmed with Tessellate HealthOct 28
- Two people in your field review your workOct 30
- Twenty learners rate your ten‑minute sample lessonNov 4
Badge by Nov 4 if all four pass.
Your card,
as the directory draws it
Design · Draft
MPWayfinding for product designers
Mina Park
Senior product designer · Tessellate Health
- Checks
- 0 of 4
- Learners
- 0
Every instructor starts as this card with an empty badge. The four checks fill it, and learners see it once your first course opens.
Questions
What instructors ask before they apply
Anything this list leaves out, a person on the instructor team answers within a working day. Write to them.
Card fees and currency conversion, video hosting, captions in 41 languages and the tutor's answers to your learners. The rest pays for the catalog that puts your course in front of 680K learners.
On the 15th, for the month before, by bank transfer in 38 currencies or by PayPal. The statement lists every sale, refund and Plus minute, course by course. A balance under $50 rolls into the next month.
You do. Waypoint holds a license to sell and stream it while it is listed, and you can unpublish it with 30 days' notice. Learners who bought it before then keep their access for as long as they have an account.
Yes. Waypoint asks for no exclusivity, sets no price floor and takes nothing from sales you make elsewhere, on your own site or anyone else's. The one rule is that a Waypoint coupon cannot be resold.
You record every lesson, so the video carries no label. Studio text you left as it was, a quiz question or a chapter summary, carries an AI drafted badge until you edit it. 41 lessons carry one today.
You hear which check and why within two working days, and you can apply again after 90 days. Most people who come back failed the sample lesson the first time and recorded it again.
Your first course can open in five weeks
The badge stays yours after that, and every later course opens the day you publish it.
No fee to apply, to list a course or to leave.
