For creators · The marketplace for patient education
Teach what illness taught you.
You learned it the hard way — pacing, appeals, symptom tracking, cooking from bed, rebuilding a working life. Someone three years behind you needs exactly that knowledge. Publish it as a course. You keep 75% of every sale.
No listing fee. No deadlines. No video production bar. Drafts never expire — build at your own pace and come back whenever you can.
Who teaches here
One marketplace, five kinds of teachers — all held to the same certification bar, with no gatekeeping beyond it.
Patient educators
You live with a condition and figured out things no leaflet ever told you. That is expertise.
Clinicians
Nurses, doctors, physios, OTs — teach the patient-facing version of what you explain in clinic every day.
Advocates
Insurance appeals, disability paperwork, medical self-advocacy — skills people pay to learn.
Patient organisations
Put your education programmes where the community already learns — and fund your mission with the proceeds.
Healthcare organisations
Discharge education and self-management programmes, certified accessible and measurable.
Why teach on Spooniversity
01
You keep 75%
A transparent share on every sale, snapshotted at the moment of purchase. Monthly payouts. No listing fees, no hidden costs.
02
An audience that gets it
Your learners are chronically ill people and the professionals who serve them. No explaining what a flare is. No convincing anyone the problem exists.
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Certification is your quality badge
Every course passes the Spoon-Aware Certification Audit — structure, accessibility, human-reviewed content. Learners trust the badge, and that trust sells your course.
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Built for your energy
Upload from bed. Save and stop mid-way. Nothing expires, nothing punishes a bad month. This platform assumes your capacity varies, because ours does too.
How it works
Four steps. You can stop at any step and come back — nothing expires.
Step 1 of 4
Create your creator profile
A few fields: your name, how you want to appear, whether you teach as a patient, clinician, advocate, or organisation.
Step 2 of 4
Create a course draft
Title, description, category, and your price in euros. That is all a draft needs to exist.
Step 3 of 4
Upload your materials
Lessons, audio, video, transcripts — whenever they are ready. Text-first is fine.
Step 4 of 4
Certification, then you are live
The automated checks run, a human reads your content, and once certified your course is on the marketplace earning 75% of every sale.
The maths, in the open
You set your own price (from €0.50 up — most courses list between €19 and €59). The platform keeps 25% to run certification, hosting, and payments. You keep the rest.
| Your price | You keep per sale | 50 learners | 250 learners |
|---|---|---|---|
| €19 | €14.25 | €712.50 | €3,562.50 |
| €29 | €21.75 | €1,087.50 | €5,437.50 |
| €59 | €44.25 | €2,212.50 | €11,062.50 |
Examples, not projections — your sales depend on your course and audience. Payouts run monthly.
What people need you to teach
Patient education is bigger than medicine. Our learners are looking for two things: skills that make life with illness workable, and things that bring them back to themselves. Both belong here.
Navigating a new diagnosis. Pacing and energy management. Insurance appeals. Working from bed. Cooking with no standing tolerance. Adaptive yoga. Watercolour for shaky hands. Writing your illness story. Returning to work part-time. Explaining your condition to your family. Grief for the life before.
If it helped you find direction, capability, or joy inside illness — someone else is searching for it right now.
Questions, answered honestly
Do I need medical credentials to teach?
No. Lived experience is a credential here. Patients teach alongside clinicians and advocates. What we do require: every course passes a certification audit, and any content that touches medical claims is read by a human before it can be listed. Nobody sells cures on Spooniversity.
Do I need to record video?
No. Text-first courses are welcome — many of our learners prefer reading in a dark room over watching a screen. Audio and video are supported if you want them, and captions or a transcript are part of the certification bar.
How much do I earn?
You keep 75% of every sale. If your course sells for €29, you receive €21.75 per learner. Payouts run monthly, and every sale is a permanent record you can see — the platform share is fixed at the moment of sale and never rewritten.
What does it cost to start?
Nothing. There is no listing fee, no subscription, and no upfront cost. The platform share on each sale is the only economics between us.
What if I flare mid-way through building my course?
Then you rest. Drafts have no deadline and never expire. You can create a draft today, upload materials next month, and submit for certification whenever you are ready. The platform is built by and for people whose energy is not linear.
What is the certification audit?
Three checks before a course goes live. Structure: lesson length and pacing, checked automatically. Accessibility: contrast, headings, captions, checked automatically. Content: always read by a person — never auto-approved, never auto-rejected. Certification is the trust badge learners see on every listing.
The marketplace is young. That is your advantage.
Founding creators get in before the crowd — first courses in a category become the courses a category is known for. Take your time building. Claim your place now.
Become a founding creatorSign in with a magic link — no password to remember. You can come back to every step.