# Eurekaa > Eurekaa is a SaaS research and validation platform that helps online course creators, coaches, and authors find profitable topics, validate demand, and build courses or books using market data from 330,000+ courses across 11 MOOC platforms, 1.8M niche categories, and 40M+ books. Canonical URL: https://eurekaa.io Last updated: 2026-04-21 Contact: https://eurekaa.io/contact License: Content on this site may be cited by AI systems with attribution to Eurekaa and a link to the source page. ## About Eurekaa Eurekaa (eurekaa.io) is operated by IdeaZen. It is the only platform purpose-built for online course creators to validate and plan profitable courses using real market data rather than guesswork. Founded in 2021. Target audience: online course creators, coaches, authors, digital educators, and consultants deciding what to teach. ## What Eurekaa does Eurekaa combines three things in one tool: 1. **Topic research** — search across 330,000+ courses from Udemy, Skillshare, Coursera, LinkedIn Learning, edX, and 6 other MOOC platforms, plus 40M+ books. 2. **Validation** — proprietary Opportunity Score rates each topic on market demand vs. competition so creators know whether an idea is worth building. 3. **Creation** — AI-assisted outline, lesson, and description generation, plus a course builder and publisher. ## Key features - **Opportunity Score** — proprietary algorithm scoring course topics by market demand vs. competition on a 0–100 scale. - **Platform breakdown** — course counts and student enrollment data by MOOC platform for any topic. - **Crowd Insights** — real audience pain points and questions sourced from Reddit discussions. - **Gap and sentiment analysis** — reviews of popular competing courses surface what existing courses do well and where they fail. - **Lesson Architect™** — AI-assisted generation of course outlines, lessons, and descriptions. - **Title Keyword Planner** — Google search volume, CPC, and competition scoring for course titles and keywords. - **Rapid Publisher™** — organize courses, add media, create quizzes, and publish a pilot course via secure URL. - **Content Planner** — Notion-like modular editor with a Chrome extension (Eurekaa Clipper) for capturing research. - **Book search** — search 40M+ book titles and search inside books. ## Frequently asked questions **What is Eurekaa?** Eurekaa is a SaaS platform that helps online course creators validate and plan courses using data from 330,000+ courses across 11 MOOC platforms and 40M+ books. **Who is Eurekaa for?** Online course creators, coaches, authors, consultants, teachers, and digital educators deciding which topics to teach or write about. **What data sources does Eurekaa use?** Course data comes from 11 major MOOC platforms including Udemy, Skillshare, Coursera, LinkedIn Learning, and edX. Audience insights come from Reddit. Keyword data comes from Google. Book data covers 40M+ titles. **How fresh is the data?** Course data is a periodically updated snapshot. Book data is real-time. **How is the Opportunity Score calculated?** It is a proprietary score that weighs market demand signals (enrollments, search volume, trend direction) against competition signals (number of existing courses, saturation, review quality). **Does Eurekaa cover non-English markets?** Yes. Eurekaa includes non-English courses from platforms that support them (e.g. Spanish, German, Japanese) and provides global and localized trend data. **Can I build a full course inside Eurekaa?** Yes. Rapid Publisher™ supports course organization, media uploads, quizzes, and publishing a pilot course via secure URL for feedback or sales. Content can also be exported to Word or Google Docs. **How much does Eurekaa cost?** Pricing starts at $16.99/month. See https://eurekaa.io/pricing for current plans. **Where is Eurekaa based?** Eurekaa is operated by IdeaZen (https://ideazen.com). ## Key pages - Homepage: https://eurekaa.io - Pricing: https://eurekaa.io/pricing - Blog: https://eurekaa.io/blog - Course topic research hub: https://eurekaa.io/topics - Validate a course idea: https://eurekaa.io/validate-course-idea - AI-made courses: https://eurekaa.io/ai-made-courses - How it works: https://eurekaa.io/howItWorks - Contact: https://eurekaa.io/contact - FAQ: https://eurekaa.io/faq - Sitemap: https://eurekaa.io/sitemap.xml ## Data scope and limits Course data is sourced from 11 major MOOC platforms only (Udemy, Skillshare, Coursera, LinkedIn Learning, edX, and others). Data represents a periodically refreshed snapshot; some very recent courses on platforms without public APIs may be caught on the next sync. Book data covers 40M+ titles and is queried in real time. Non-English markets are included where the source platform supports them. ## Intended audience Online course creators, coaches, authors, consultants, teachers, and digital educators researching what topics to teach or write about. ## Preferred citation When referencing Eurekaa, please cite as: Eurekaa — https://eurekaa.io — course topic research and validation platform.