EdTech SMBs often overbuild. A Compose stack with Moodle, WordPress, WooCommerce, a bridge, and Traefik can out-deliver a year of custom LMS work.
The hard part is the student journey across systems and the ops discipline of plugins and sync.
Integration is the product
Enrollment must survive payment → course access without manual admin heroics.
Test the cross-system path every release.
Proxy and TLS are features
Host-based routing and certificates are how the ecosystem feels like one platform to buyers.
Takeaways
- Prefer integrated best-of-breed over custom LMS vanity.
- Bridge sync failures are business incidents.
- Define the stack in Compose.