I built Solberra for my own class first. Then I built it for everyone else’s.

I’m Mikhail. By trade I’m an IT professional; by instinct I’m a teacher. I’ve taught SQL at a computer school, mentored colleagues throughout my career, and built an educational language site, internetpolyglot.com, that ran for years. Since 2021 I’ve also been teaching firearms-safety classes in North Carolina under the name Shot Courses — a small operation, one or two lessons a week, hundreds of students so far. Classes are bilingual (English and Russian), and they all follow the same four principles: safety, theory and practice, fun, and videos. The videos are how my students remember what they learned — and how they brag about it to their friends.

For a long time, “videos” meant me uploading drone footage to Dropbox after class and sharing links with each student individually. The drone shots from the end of class are the spectacular ones — wide overhead angles that make a student feel proud of what they just did. But the workflow around them was tedious: every class meant another evening of file management, link-sharing, and reminders to students who lost the links. Some students never got their videos. Some asked weeks later, when the files were already gone. I’m an IT person; I’ve built educational products before. I knew there had to be a better way, and I knew I could build it.

Solberra is what I built. After class, I upload my drone footage, set a price, and share one link with my students. They preview their video, decide if they want it, and pay directly. No Dropbox, no chasing, no lost links. I started building it for my Shot Courses students, but as I built it I realized the workflow problem isn’t specific to firearms instruction — taekwondo coaches, welding teachers, dance studios, and golf coaches are all doing the same Dropbox shuffle. So I built it for them too. If you’re teaching something that students want to take home as proof of what they accomplished, Solberra is for you.