Jonathan Tzou

Sunlight — Give your team access to courses, books and events worldwide

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Sunlight is a platform for companies looking to grow a highly engaging learning culture at work by empowering your team to access any course, book, or event in the world.

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Ryan Hoover
I thought this was Spotify at first glance of the video 😂
Juan Andres Lagrange
Thanks @rrhoover ! We will take it as a compliment :) We definitely took a lot of inspiration from them as we believe they have a great UX that people can feel familiar with and works great for our use cases.
Juan Andres Lagrange
Hello! Product Hunt community 👋 Designing for how people will learn and grow in the coming years is what our 12 person team dreams about every night. Over the past decade we have built learning & development programs on every continent (except Antartica 😊) Over half of today’s jobs are at risk of being eliminated or significantly altered in the next 15 years. For millennials this has made training the most valuable benefit a company can offer. To prepare us for this future, we built Sunlight to organize and make all of the world’s learning opportunities accessible. Even more important than the functionality of our product, we are making it easy for companies of all sizes to create an engaging learning culture. With Sunlight you can just assign a learning budget and enjoy the beautifully curated experience given your learner profile. · Our analytics dashboards keep HR managers, CFOs and CEOs happy. · Our personalized recommendations keep your team members happy while growing. · Our Slack Integrations and social activity feeds keep people engaged and aware of the diverse learning opportunities grasping their colleagues’ enrollment. We envision a future where everyone has access to any learning opportunity and the resources allocated to pursue those opportunities with as little friction as possible. All the support in growing your people! With Gratitude, Juan Lagrange CEO PS. Thanks to @jtzou for hunting us!!
Jonathan Tzou
Been following Sunlight for awhile now...and I'm *so* excited to see them launch the service I believe will fundamentally change the way employees access continued learning content from within. So many employees sit on unused continued learning budgets because searching for content is too much of a hassle, the approval process is too convoluted, or the motivations just aren't there. I admire the Sunlight team for trying to change this and cannot wait to see the ripple effect it will have on industries for years to come ☀️
Alberto Martinez de Arenaza
Solving a real problem and curating great content, definitely worth checking out for a team! Pros: The platform looks awesome, and I'm sure the learning metrics, featured content + dashboard get even better when a whole team in onboarded (as opposed to using it as an individual) Cons: none so far Congrats on the launch!
Juan Vicci

As mentioned, the customer support is one of the best ones I have experienced in online products. They are friendly, fast and super professional. Before using Sunlight, it was a chaos for us to control the educational budget in our different teams using excel, but since we introduced it, it's one issue less we need to worry about.

Pros:

Simple, intuitive, I like the user interface and the amazing customer support.

Cons:

I would love to include old transactions into the system.

Thomas Rosenmayr

I especially like the concept to empower people taking care of their own learning curve

Pros:

Easy to use and well designed

Cons:

Recommendations with deep linking

Brandon Walker
How did you make this website/landing page its beautiful! Did you use a particular landing page service or was it from scratch?
Carlos Lagrange
@thatoastman Thanks! Made from scratch with Webflow. Gotta thank @bryantchou for that magnificent marvel of a product. Our UI is also built on it. Do check out if you want to build anything on the web :)
Andrea R. Armada
Easy to use, engaging and lovely interface. Went beyond my expectations. It could use with a few more resources but I’m sure that’s exactly what the future will bring. Excellent!
Juan Andres Lagrange
Hi @andieramia thanks for your kind words! There are actually over 40k resources currently on the platform. If you head over to the left hand menu and click on "search" you should be able to find lots. Still making sure we work on adding more as well as more expertly curated playlists.
andy whyte 🌐

More integration with Amazon for books - I don't know if it's possible, but a great feature would be if it pulled in product info from the URL. Also, if it remembered my addresses so I don't have to re-type.

Pros:

Great idea, encourages self improvement across my team, intuitive interface, the timeline is great for discovery, approvals are ace

Cons:

I'd love the request process to be a little more streamlines

Juan Andres Lagrange
Hi @whyteuk , really appreciate the review! We are indeed making improvements to pull in product features but an early functionality is already out. If you try to "request anything" on the left hand menu, you will see that sharing the URL now autocompletes some information (more on the way). Also, in order to avoid typing your address every time, add it to your profile. Just go to your profile -> settings -> address. This should avoid the hasle. Hope it helps :)
Valerie Gomes

The playlists are amazing!

Pros:

Very easy to use and great design! No customization needed

Cons:

To include more resources

Felicia Reich
This is interesting. However i have one question - As a manager of a team of 15-20 people, how can I control what my team is purchasing?
Carlos Lagrange
@felicia_reich You can turn on admin approvals so that anytime someone wants to spend their Sunlight, someone you designate can approve or deny requests. Theres some extra options in there too so that for example only requests above a certain $ amount need approval. If you use slack you can approve through there for extra simplicity :)
Theresa Jones
great
Andrea R. Armada

Excellent support system, very helpful team. I love the idea that we are independent to develop ourselves as well as out team’s independent to develop itself. Loads of value here.

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Easy, engaging and lovely interface. Great tracking and a greatly ambitious future resource plan. Very exciting!

Cons:

Needs more content but that’s exactly why they are here so I’m confident this is what the future brings.

brryant
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Congrats @jalagrange and @carlosxcl ! Beautiful site & product, and I'm really happy for you both seeing the traction you guys have had over the past couple of years!
Hanna Welch
Thank you for this interesting service! I have been searching for something like this for a long time
Juan Andres Lagrange
Great to hear @hanna_welch ! Let me know if you need any help getting setup. You can also contact our team through the live chat on the lower left hand side or email hello@sunlight.is :)
Tony Freed
Congrats on the launch!
Paul Berry

A product like this maximises it’s usefulness at scale sobthe sooner it gets there the better for all users.

Pros:

Well designed tools to help motivate staff and develop their skills

Cons:

Keep adding to the menu options.

Sergey Filipovich

This product has good future

Pros:

Very easy to use and very good design!

Cons:

Don't have at that time.

Denise Moreno

In my prev company, that's an issue, the manager has the budget, but he can't simply allocate it to the team for education/training since it's so hard to track and organize such stuff. So this for sure will help a lot of teams

Pros:

Easy to manage educational budget in resources you really want to attend.

Cons:

Needs to be more intuitive in some menus.

Juan Andres Lagrange
Thanks for the review Denise! Could you by any chance dive a bit deeper on the menu's you are getting lost in? Would love to make this simpler.
Povilas Panavas

It's important that company would put people into the correct groups in Sunlight. This way you can browse items your co-workers in back-end ordered, instead of seeing all the things HR, marketing and other departments ordered.

Pros:

Easy to use Great support service

Cons:

There isn't any real issues as far as I could notice.