Frequently Asked Questions

Question 1

What is this website?

Accepted Answer

We add online courses, mostly for free, in this place. We do not host or sell courses; Udemy, Skillshare, Coursera and other websites do. We add value to your learning experience by tracking discount and free coupons, free courses, etc., from those platforms.

Question 2

What exactly are you guys?

Accepted Answer

We are a team of French developers based in Paris. We develop websites for clients, mainly corporate, saas, or affiliate websites. We have focus on NextJS - Tailwind - GraphQL stack. We started the Comidoc website development in May 2018, as an internal project, because we wanted to find a way to automate and share our discoveries of Udemy coupons with the rest of humankind, thirsty for knowledge; we believe in the universalization and democratization of information and education.

Question 3

Do you work for profit?

Accepted Answer

Since the beginning, we are actually losing money each month; we made profits only on one ocassion: April, 2020, during the Covid worldwide lockdown! We do this mostly for our personal believes. Why is this so? Because we are not a Wordpress website with a $10 hosting bills per month at Digital Ocean. We have several dedicated servers, big bandwidth, CDNs, bots, scrappers, ... All of this tech stuff costs money. Our dev time is, of course, not billed; we do this as a side project. We only rely on ads to cover our operational charges.

Question 4

What is exactly your relationship with Udemy?

Accepted Answer

In the past we had an affiliate contract with Udemy. They revoqued it in November, 2020, at the beginning of the Black Friday! So now we have zero links with them.

Question 5

Do you gain any money whenever I buy a course via one of your links?

Accepted Answer

No, since november 2020 we have no more Udemy affiliate links. All the money goes to the instructor (and Udemy). Our sole job is to connect you with them, and we survive with ads, as stated previously.

Question 6

Once a coupon appears on your website, for how long is it valid?

Accepted Answer

Coupons are issued by instructors to promote their courses, gain traction and reach momentum. The instructor can choose to emit discounted (ex: $11.99 coupon) or 100% off coupon (you pay nothing). Each coupon becomes expired when emitted quota is over (1000 enrollments) OR expiration date has been reached (5 days).

Question 7

What is this "1000 enrollments rule" from Udemy? Why was it enforced?

Accepted Answer

For a coupon, number of activation are now capped to 1000 max. This means that it can be activated only a 1000 times, and then it expires; or reach its expiration date; whatever happens first. We suspect that some instructors abused in the past the system and created an artificial hype (thousands of new students in a shot time span) around the course they promoted, and by doing this, they messed-up the Udemy ranking algorithm.

Question 8

How does your browser extension work?

Accepted Answer

The technology used is quite simple: when a user of this extension browses on udemy.com, we look in our database and provide a coupon in a popup if we have one. Conversely, if a user uses a coupon on the Udemy site that we do not have, we will add it to the database and share it with our user community. It also allows us to automatically deactivate expired coupons, and thus have a list that is always valid and in real time; in simple words, we always keep VERY FRESH leads. This is a very virtuous community model: the more users we have of the extension, the more coupons we have to offer them.

Question 9

What information is transmitted when using the browser extension?

Accepted Answer

When you browse Udemy courses pages, we only send the url visited to comidoc servers. Personnal data (Udemy account, courses enrolled, courses whished,...) is never accessed. You can choose wether you want the added coupons to be credited to your name, or remain anonymous.

Question 10

What courses are posted on your Telegram

Accepted Answer

Only free courses or courses where you have to pay nothing because of a valid 100% discount coupon. Quiz only courses are excluded from Telegram posts.

Question 11

How can I know if my contribution worked, and how can I see my name on it?

Accepted Answer

If you use the browser extension and are a registered user, an email is sent to you when you discover a course (free/paid) or a coupon (100%off or discount). If you use the submit form you have a summary at the end of the process.

Question 12

Could you please help me to find a coupon for this course?

Accepted Answer

We have no contact with instructors, and only instructors can emit coupons. You can try to directly contact the instructor finding his/her Twitter/Facebook, and ask him/her for a coupon, but at our level, we cannot help, sorry.

Question 13

What do I gain from helping to post coupons?

Accepted Answer

You help people who do not have the money to study a topic. In other words, you participate in spreading knowledge to the whole world, and thats a thing! You are helping to build a fairier and better society!

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