iOS dev course sales plummet to $0 due to AI, forcing instructor's going-out-of-business sale
rudrank · x · 2026-10-19
iOS instructor Sean Allen is shutting down his course business: AI cratered sales to essentially $0 while hosting costs remained high, so he's cancelled hosting, enabled permanent downloads of purchased videos, made old courses free and discounted the latest — site closes Nov 24. Developer Rudrank Riyam relates, having shut his own book services months ago after writing about Cursor + SweetPad iOS workflows. Two real cases of AI disrupting paid developer education.
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