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Education & School Apps opportunities·tracked since 09 Oct 2026·evidence from 17 Feb 2026·scored 5m ago

Udemy Online Video Courses: Broken Udemy App Needs Fixing

The Udemy Online Video Courses app is experiencing significant functionality issues, rendering it largely unusable for users. Problems include failure to load content, missing purchased courses, and a lack of access to messages, leading to widespread dissatisfaction.

6 different people have complained about this since 17 Feb 2026, most recently on 04 Apr 2026.

  • user·5b39· App Store· 17 Feb 2026original ↗
    “Udemy Online Video Courses — App is broken.”
  • user·98b2· App Store· 04 Apr 2026original ↗
    “Take the useless ‘ai’ out and pay for a pro dev team to fix this broken app.”
  • user·1c1a· App Store· 27 Feb 2025original ↗
    “The newest update did not fix anything as I still can’t load anything on the app.”
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6 people in 6 posts across 1 source · demand low, pain low, competition low

Pain pointStableEvidence: low
Index score
25.2
ahead of 49% of the rest of this market
0.0%signals / 7d
Demand
0.0low
Momentum
42.8moderate
Pain
0.0low
Competition
34.5low
lower is better
Monetization
0.0low
Market size
9.3low
Evidence
43.3moderate

The pain

shares of 6 quoted posts

What goes wrong, and for whom

Who
6 people using Udemy Online Video Courses
What goes wrong
Not classified into a failure type — read the posts below.
How bad
83% of posts are complaints
Since
17 Feb 2026 → 04 Apr 2026

Is this a startup idea?

Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use — the fix belongs first to that provider.

Complaints are about
Udemy Online Video Courses
Looking for something else
0% want an alternative · 17% ask the provider for a feature
What the numbers say
Almost nobody is looking for a different product — people want this provider to fix it, not a new option.
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The pain — what people say

Their asks, who is writing, and the posts themselves

What people were doing

Every post behind this page, by what its author was doing — and when each one was written

6posts
  • Complaint583%
  • Request117%
27 Feb 20256 posts04 Apr 2026

Sources

6 signals · 1 sources

App Store6
Only public content is collected, author names are stored as one-way hashes, and every excerpt links back to its original post.

Evidence

Raw public posts behind this opportunity — click through to the original

  • user·5b39App StoreApp Store GB/Course platforms·17 Feb 2026·Complaintsource ↗

    Udemy Online Video Courses — App is broken App literally doesn’t work. No courses load you can’t do anything

    Strong complaint
  • user·98b2App StoreApp Store GB/Course platforms·04 Apr 2026·Complaintsource ↗

    …tified This used to work well and now I can’t see any of my courses. Take the useless ‘ai’ out and pay for a pro dev team to fix this broken app. I’ve paid many hundreds over the years for this now to be useless

  • user·1c1aApp StoreApp Store US/Course platforms·27 Feb 2025·Complaintsource ↗

    …days ago has caused the course as well as the front page to not load. The newest update did not fix anything as I still can’t load anything on the app.

  • user·9e29App StoreApp Store GB/Course platforms·07 Feb 2026·Complaintsource ↗

    Udemy Online Video Courses — Broken app — The app used to work but now it’s not showing my courses I’ve paid for. The courses it does show it shows an error message.

  • user·cd92App StoreApp Store GB/Course platforms·05 Mar 2026·Requestsource ↗

    Udemy Online Video Courses — Doesn’t work Nothing works. Not all purchased courses are shown, it notifies me I have a new message, but there’s nowhere in the app to view messages, opening any course just shows “load error”

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Market and score

Products already there, how the score moved, and what it is made of

Opportunity history

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Why did it move?

Score 26.8 → 25.2 · 09 Oct 2026, 06:00 → 07:15 UTC

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How the score was measured
38 measured values behind the seven sub-scores · each shows the value, then the points it earned out of 100
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Market size
Distinct people affected6 → 26
Distinct communities0 → 0
Distinct sources0 → 0
Adjacent categories0 → 0
Regions / languages0 → 0
Competition
Existing products5 → 50
New entrants (90d)0 → 0
Funded players0 → 0
Market maturity9.2 → 80
Incumbent activity42.5 → 43
Monetization
Stated willingness to pay0 → 0
Existing paid products0 → 0
Pricing complaints0 → 0
Business context0 → 0
Momentum
Period-over-period growth0 → 40
Latest period growth0 → 43
Sustained trend0 → 43
Acceleration0 → 50
Pain
Complaint intensity0 → 0
Complaint frequency0 → 0
Negative sentiment0 → 0
Willingness to switch0 → 0
Urgency0 → 0
Willingness to pay0 → 0
Repeat complaints0 → 0
Demand
Mention volume0 → 0
Explicit requests0 → 0
Distinct people0 → 0
Questions asked0 → 0
Alternative searches0 → 0
Feature requests0 → 0
Evidence
Evidence volume6 → 24
Source diversity1 → 35
Extraction confidence20.9 → 21
Source credibility72 → 72
Duplicate rate0 → 100
Freshness188.1 → 0
Cluster cohesion100 → 100

Questions about this idea

Is Broken Udemy App Needs Fixing a startup idea?
Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use, and the fix belongs first to that provider. The page shows what is frustrating users and how badly — not an open market to start a company in.
How many people have this problem?
6 different people described it independently, in 6 mentions, the earliest from 17 Feb 2026 and the most recent from 04 Apr 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
Is this problem getting worse?
Current status: stable — mentioned at a steady rate. Momentum is 43/100, measured as how often it is mentioned recently compared with before.

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