Thinkific

Thinkific is an online learning commerce platform that enables individuals, academies, and companies to create, market, and sell various digital learning products, including courses, communities, memberships, and digital downloads. It provides tools for content creation, student management, payment processing, and analytics, allowing users to build and scale their online education businesses.

Thinkific is a platform for creating and selling online courses, memberships, and digital products, which aligns with the core concept of an online publishing platform. While it focuses more on structured courses than free-form articles, it offers many analogous features. It provides tools for content creation (rich text editor, multimedia support), monetization (memberships, various selling tools), analytics for tracking engagement, and community features. It also supports user profiles, tagging/categorization, email automation, and mobile access. The primary difference is its emphasis on 'courses' and 'learning experiences' rather than general 'stories' or 'articles' and it lacks a direct 'recommendation engine' for content discovery in the same way Medium does for articles.