Two stories.

A place where an academy owner registers, builds courses, invites instructors, sets prices, and reaches students — all under their own identity. Students browse across every academy on the platform, not one walled garden. The name on the door is theirs. The infrastructure underneath is shared.

Most learning platforms make you choose: join a marketplace where you are one of thousands of sellers, or stand up your own system and rebuild everything from scratch. SkillHive refuses that choice. Every academy runs on the same hardened foundation — payments, certificates, quizzes, analytics — but appears entirely as itself. That is the difference between infrastructure and a marketplace.

Courses and lessons. Quizzes with attempt limits and cooldowns. Certificates with public verification links. Subscriptions, invoices, and course purchases through Paystack. Reviews, discussions, notifications, audit trails. The full lifecycle of an academy, from the first course draft to the last certificate issued.

The API contract was documented before the first endpoint was written. The type layer was defined before the first component. Loading, empty, and error states were considered before the happy path. Every screen is the end of a decision, not the beginning of one.