“I actually started with a building public community... after four months I shut it down... maybe I can do a challenge... maybe I can try teaching so if a community for building in public didn't work maybe I should really just break things down and walk people through how to actually do it but I didn't jump into course creation I did a challenge first... I went into uh live teaching so a cohort-based course... and only recently I was thinking maybe it's time to switch”

Iterate your product format toward what fits the creator, not what's popular

Kevon's sequence: pure community ($5/month, killed at month 4) → 30-day challenge → live cohort course → interactive video lessons → video+challenge hybrid. Each iteration kept what worked and replaced what didn't. Don't commit to a single product format because it's the "right" creator-economy answer. Audit every 4-6 months: what feels like a slog for you (kill), what energizes you (double down), what do students consistently get stuck on (replace).