Frequently Asked Questions
Courses (purchased on Gumroad)
What does it mean?
We used Gumroad.com as a payment processor for our courses for the last few years. What it means is that the purchase itself has been done on Gumroad.com and we validate it against their database to enable the courses for you here, on our platform.
This is NOT the only way to do it anymore, but if you used Gumroad for purchase this FAQ section is for you.
Canât see ANY of my courses
Make sure that you used the EXACT same email for your gumroad.com purchase as the one youâve logged in with at https://hype4.academy
We auto-authenticate and 90% of issues come from a different email or a typo in the address.
If youâre still having problems reach out to us at hello@hype4.com
Canât see some of my courses
If you can see some courses but canât see others hereâs what to do:First, check whether on your gumroad.com account they are all there. If theyâre not, it means that you may have purchased some courses using a different email address. In that case just email support@gumroad.com and tell them to merge your accounts.
If all your courses ARE in your gumroad account, yet you donât see them all in your courses tab hype4.academy, do this:
Make sure youâre logged in. Then go to the Books & Courses tab, click on See All. Find the course you donât see in the library and go to its dedicated page. If the button says âstart the courseâ it means it works ok. If it asks you to purchase, and youâre sure all is OK with your gumroad email, contact us.
Courses as part of the PRO plan
What does it mean?
At the moment our main PRO plan has one video course included in the subscription (Mobile Apps UI part 1). The complete PRO plan includes ALL our design oriented video courses.
To access the courses you donât need a gumroad account if you purchased one of the PRO plans. Simply log into your account and youâll see the courses you own (depending on the subscription) in your library.
Canât see my courses
If you canât see your courses, first check if you have an active PRO subscription that includes the courses youâre looking for.
Make sure youâre not logged in with another account, and if the problem persists email us at hello@hype4.com and weâll get this sorted for you as quickly as we can.
Course video content issues
Video unavailable
If you keep seeing Video Unavailable for one or many of the courses, try restarting your computer, refreshing your browser or disabling/enabling a VPN.
Alternatively you can try a different browser to see if the problem persists.
Video plays with only audio
This issue happens if youâre using more than one connected display. For security reasons our video provider doesnât allow for this and at this point itâs better to just use one display and pause the video when necessary. Or play it on an external device.
Once weâll figure out a way to make this work but also stay secure, weâll let you know. Thank you for the understanding!
Courses
Canât see ANY of my courses
Make sure that you used the EXACT same email for your gumroad.com purchase as the one youâve logged in with at https://hype4.academy
We auto-authenticate and 90% of issues come from a different email or a typo in the address.
Canât see some of my courses
If you can see some courses but canât see others hereâs what to do: First, check whether on your gumroad.com account they are all there. If theyâre not, it means that you may have purchased some courses using a different email address. In that case just email support@gumroad.com and tell them to merge your accounts.
If all your courses ARE in your gumroad account, yet you donât see them all in your courses tab hype4.academy, do this:
Make sure youâre logged in. Then go to the Books & Courses tab, click on See All. Find the course you donât see in the library and go to its dedicated page. If the button says âstart the courseâ it means it works ok. If it asks you to purchase, and youâre sure all is OK with your gumroad email, contact us.
Video unavailable
If you keep seeing Video Unavailable for one or many of the courses, try restarting your computer, refreshing your browser or disabling/enabling a VPN.
Alternatively you can try a different browser to see if the problem persists.
Challenges
How challenges work?
Challenges have a streak mode (hardcore) and a relaxed ânormalâ mode. In the streak mode your streak starts when you upload your first challenge. This is the exact hour when your next challenge will become available. Make sure you do it at the right time.
Guided challenges
Our PRO users have access to a guide for each of the challenges. It means they can avoid the most common mistakes and complete the challenge better and faster. The guides are text based or video based depending on the challenge itself.
PRO vs FREE challenges
Our plan and commitment is to enable as many challenges as possible on the free plan (without guides). However, a couple of challenges each year will be PRO user only - theyâre mostly more advanced challenges like Information Architecture or learning our visual patterns for apps / landing pages.
The goal is to have 4 challenges available to everyone for every 1 challenge thatâs just limited to PRO users.
I lost my streak
If you lost your streak because the website was unavailable, it likely means your internet provider had an outage on some of the connections to the outside world.
If our servers encounter an issue, weâll notify everyone and help them reset their lost streak. In all other cases there is nothing we can do.
However, just continue with the challenge, as even without the badges, at the end of it youâre going to be a MUCH better designer.
I accidentaly upload the wrong thing
If you uploaded a different design for a challenge, donât worry. Just add the right design again as part of your portfolio and clearly label it as the challenge number you uploaded wrong.
If you complete the 90 day streak, weâll allow one or two challenges to be taken from the portfolio. Donât go above two though!
A good designer should be PRECISE and thorough. Donât just click through stuff as quickly as possible. Make CONSCIOUS effort here and you wonât have this issue.
Pricing changes outlined
What does it mean?
The platform started at $5/$6 per month for the PRO plan. If you purchased it at this price, congrats and thank you for being the earliest bird! You will keep that price for as long as youâre subscribed and all the price raises wonât be affecting you.
Price ranges
We want to offer immense value to our users. Thatâs why our end-goal price is $12 per month. Before we get there we will have multiple tiers like:
- ⢠$5/6 per month
- ⢠$7/8 per month
- ⢠$9/10 per month
- ⢠$12/$14 per month
Each price increase will be clearly announced in our emails, videos, social media channels and on the platform itself.
The more value for PRO users is added to the academy, the more the price will go up.
At ANY point, if you purchase the PRO subscription you wonât be affected by the later price changes and you will keep your price for as long as youâre subscribed.
We give you feedback
How does it work?
Pro users can receive feedback on their work from our academy team. Feedback is placed as in-context comments on top of your designs.
What kinds of feedback?
We add nearly a hundred feedback comments on projects every single day - this is human feedback done by Michal and the team.
We also have an AI feedback bot that you can run once a week to get longer feedback on a specific, already uploaded project of yours.
That feedback is private and only you can see it. You can find it in the feedback tab in your PRO user panel.
What you need to know
We add feedback comments every single day at a couple different hours.
However there is no guarantee that your specific project will receive feedback every single time.
If youâre consistently uploading every single day then itâs likely you will be receiving feedback on some of your projects though.
This is an extra feature and we cannot give feedback to every single project by every single pro user.
Our focus is also mostly aimed at those who need the feedback the most.
General
I want to remove my account
We are working on an automatic feature, but for now just email uicourse1@hype4.com with the âREMOVE MY ACCOUNTâ in the title.
No questions asked, we will remove the account as soon as we can.