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Education & School Apps opportunities·tracked since 29 Sept 2026·evidence from 23 Jun 2024·scored 52m ago

Udemy Online Video Courses: Udemy Course App Performance Issues

Users consistently report that the Udemy online video courses platform is plagued by significant technical issues, including bugs and a poor offline experience. This has led to widespread dissatisfaction, with many describing the app as garbage or trash.

6 different people have complained about this since 23 Jun 2024, most recently on 14 Sept 2026.

  • user·6e54· App Store· 24d agooriginal ↗
    “Udemy Online Video Courses — Garbage App.”
  • user·22ff· App Store· 14 May 2026original ↗
    “Udemy Online Video Courses — Horrible offline experience.”
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6 people in 6 posts across 1 source · demand low, pain moderate, competition moderate

Pain pointRising⚠️ CrowdedEvidence: low
Index score
38.3
ahead of 81% of the rest of this market
0.4%score / 7d0.0%signals / 7d
Posts per week, last 16 weeks · 1 in the past 4
Demand
0.0low
Momentum
61.6moderate
Pain
43.2moderate
Competition
44.5moderate
lower is better
Monetization
9.0low
Market size
26.1low
Evidence
44.9moderate

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
100% of posts are complaints · pain score moderate (43/100)
Since
23 Jun 2024 → 14 Sept 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 · 0% 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
  • Complaint6100%
23 Jun 20246 posts14 Sept 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·6e54App StoreApp Store AU/Course platforms·24d ago·Complaintsource ↗

    Udemy Online Video Courses — Garbage App You would think with a platform hosting literal thousands of courses on Full-Stack Development, Mobile App UI/UX, and Quality Assurance would know how to build a reasonably functional application. Apparently, not a single Developer at Udemy has ever bothered to enrol in one of…

  • user·55b8App StoreApp Store US/Course platforms·24 Jun 2026·Complaintsource ↗

    Udemy Online Video Courses — Trash — Udemy is good but that app itself is trash trash trash trash trash trash trash trash trash. It simply won’t function and if it does you’ll waste half your study time trying to get it to work.

  • user·22ffApp StoreApp Store AU/Course platforms·14 May 2026·Complaintsource ↗

    Udemy Online Video Courses — Horrible offline experience See title

  • user·4564App StoreApp Store US/Course platforms·06 Jul 2026·Complaintsource ↗

    Udemy Online Video Courses — Trash — Garbage !!!!!

  • user·0b00App StoreApp Store AU/Course platforms·06 Jan 2025·Complaintsource ↗

    Udemy Online Video Courses — Buggy — Riddled with bugs.

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Market and score

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

Opportunity history

Every score change is stored as a snapshot — click a sub-score to overlay it

Why did it move?

Score 38.4 → 38.3 · 08 Oct 2026, 08:00 → 09:15 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 communities1 → 17
Distinct sources1 → 35
Adjacent categories1 → 32
Regions / languages1 → 28
Competition
Existing products5 → 50
New entrants (90d)0 → 0
Funded players2 → 45
Market maturity13.1 → 94
Incumbent activity50 → 50
Monetization
Stated willingness to pay0 → 0
Existing paid products3 → 38
Pricing complaints0 → 0
Business context0 → 0
Momentum
Period-over-period growth100 → 95
Latest period growth0 → 43
Sustained trend1.2 → 45
Acceleration-2 → 48
Pain
Complaint intensity40 → 40
Complaint frequency100 → 100
Negative sentiment-100 → 100
Willingness to switch0 → 0
Urgency0 → 0
Willingness to pay0 → 0
Repeat complaints0 → 0
Demand
Mention volume1 → 9
Explicit requests0 → 0
Distinct people1 → 10
Questions asked0 → 0
Alternative searches0 → 0
Feature requests0 → 0
Evidence
Evidence volume6 → 24
Source diversity1 → 35
Extraction confidence15.3 → 15
Source credibility72 → 72
Duplicate rate0 → 100
Freshness23.8 → 32
Cluster cohesion98.1 → 98

Questions about this idea

Is Udemy Course App Performance Issues 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 23 Jun 2024 and the most recent from 14 Sept 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
Is this problem getting worse?
Current status: rising — mentioned more often than before. Momentum is 62/100, measured as how often it is mentioned recently compared with before.

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