Explain Ideas Visually course, $1.5K in 30 days: visual skill-building

An online course and community for turning complex ideas into clear, novel visuals. Its $1.5K in the last 30 days is verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Stripe), as of September 30, 2026.

What it actually sells

Explain Ideas Visually sells an online course and community for turning complex ideas into clear, novel visuals. Illustrator Janis Ozolins teaches the course.

The course teaches a visual creation process, feedback, live events, and ongoing skill development. It also explains where AI fits into the process and covers newsletters, presentations, books, whiteboards, and marketing.

How it charges

The product's price could not be identified on the pages we read. Its recorded revenue was $1.5K in 30 days, verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Stripe); as of 2026-09-30.

Month by month

Monthly revenue as read from the payment provider by TrustMRR, in US dollars, as of September 30, 2026.

Month	Revenue (USD)
2025-10	$5,555
2025-11	$5,073
2025-12	$2,024
2026-01	$5,012
2026-02	$871
2026-03	$2,188
2026-04	$1,538
2026-05	$754
2026-06	$1,000
2026-07	$750
2026-08	$1,225
2026-09	$1,250

Where customers come from

The founder lists Blog, Newsletter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads, X / Twitter, and Affiliate as growth channels. The site publishes quick tips, deep dives, behind-the-scenes content, and office-hour recordings.

The site also presents a community where members can receive feedback. Explain Ideas Visually says: "Trusted by 1,267 coaches, creators and knowledge workers. No design background required."

What stands out

The site says the course is trusted by 1,267 coaches, creators, and knowledge workers. It also reports that one student grew a Twitter account to more than 5,500 followers in five months.

Another student reports moving from no drawing experience to crafting over 50 scenes. The site also describes library access and Figma-template walkthroughs: "Get feedback, join live events, and keep leveling up."

The Figma material includes a walkthrough described as: "Walking through the Figma template as if starting from zero, showing exactly how a beginner would use it."

From the official site

Trusted by 1,267 coaches, creators and knowledge workers. No design background required.

Get feedback, join live events, and keep leveling up.

Using the EIV template from scratch Walking through the Figma template as if starting from zero, showing exactly how a beginner would use it.

Excerpts from the official website, fetched October 1, 2026.

Where it sits in the data

Explain Ideas Visually's $1.5K in the last 30 days is higher than 79% of the 5,602 projects with payment-verified revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $150. Within the “Design Tools” category (452 projects) it is higher than 87% (category median $118). Snapshot: 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-30. The dataset only covers founders who chose to publish their numbers, so it leans toward businesses that work; use it for scale, not as an average.

Currency

All figures are in US dollars as published. A rough yuan or euro conversion is not applied here because prices, taxes and acquisition costs differ by country.

Could you build something like this?

My view is that demand would come from coaches, creators, knowledge workers, and beginners who need to communicate complex ideas visually. The buyer is a person learning a practical skill without a design background, and distribution would need to reach that audience through educational content, social channels, newsletters, and affiliates.

The difficult parts are teaching a coherent process, maintaining useful community feedback, supporting beginners, explaining AI within a visual workflow, and competing for attention in an established education market. Strong instruction and sustained community support would both require real work.

Verdict: Needs real work.

One thing to take from it

My view: the transferable idea is to package a defined skill with instruction, examples, templates, feedback, live events, and an ongoing content library around one practical outcome.

Sources

Explain Ideas Visually official website, fetched October 1, 2026
TrustMRR: revenue verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Stripe), as of September 30, 2026

Revenue, team and start-cost figures are what the founder reported at the interview date, not current figures and not a prediction of what you will earn. Product and pricing facts come from the business's own website as checked on 30 September 2026. Method & sources · Disclosure