[HN Gopher] Show HN: A YouTube videos course generator
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Show HN: A YouTube videos course generator
An exciting aspect of what I'm working on is that users can create
their own playlists. For example, you can provide an outline of
what you're learning, such as notes from your professor or any
other structure, and the pipeline will create a course tailored to
that. Since the content is highly customized, it will be relevant
and high-quality, matching current lessons or lectures in school or
university. Initially, the pipeline also generated some teaching
content using AI, but due to the risk of AI hallucinations, I'm
planning to pivot away from that. The new focus will be on curating
YouTube videos relevant to each subject, so the courses will
consist entirely of expert-created content from YouTube. This
approach avoids copyright issues entirely. I'm still in the
process of updating the code to implement these changes. The reason
I'm posting this is to get feedback on how it sounds to you as
learner. I'd love to hear your thoughts, does this solve a problem
for you, would you be likely to use it if it just works ? I'm
trying to find a product structure that users will find valuable
and effective. The web app is completely free to use right now as
I figure out the best model. Thanks!
Author : MO-379
Score : 24 points
Date : 2024-09-02 17:30 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (coursely.ai)
(TXT) w3m dump (coursely.ai)
| voisin wrote:
| I would get rid of the silly AI generated images for each course.
| I would make the page much more information dense rather than
| these huge bubbles (this might be only on the mobile site)
| MO-379 wrote:
| ahhh i see, will do, I'm due for UI UX upgrades next so this is
| on the top of the list.
| bdcravens wrote:
| Are there any pages on your site that describe what you've
| written here? At first glance I'm not really seeing anything more
| than a catalog of topics, with no additional information as to
| what uniquely valuable.
|
| This is a common pattern I see, where someone builds a great app
| but saves the proper explanation for HN. Often you could
| literally copy your HN description to /about to improve things
| immensely.
| MO-379 wrote:
| What I've described here is what I'm shifting the focus to,
| right now everything there is general and generic, The next
| update will include exactly what's included above
| primitivesuave wrote:
| Incredible to see this posted today, as I was just in a long
| discussion yesterday about the future of AI in education. It's a
| neat concept but I think you're spreading yourself too thin on
| content, especially given the number of courses on the site. It
| might be better to focus on building out a core set of lessons
| for a targeted group of learners first. At the end of the day,
| even if you're using AI to generate the content, a human being
| needs to do the proofreading and quality assurance.
|
| The design also has ample room for improvement - it's a bit hard
| to navigate the site and stay engaged with the content at the
| moment.
| davidt84 wrote:
| What stops it hallucinating videos that don't exist?
| MO-379 wrote:
| It cant hellucinate in this case, the videos are simply youtube
| videos all it does is generate for you the search query (which
| is very hard to get wrong since we have the context of what the
| course/topic/lesson is), all you have to do is click, its the
| same as just going on youtube, the value it provides is the
| convenience of not having to think about the query and
| providing many queries to choose from.
|
| the youtube videos are normal youtube videos not ai.
| knowaveragejoe wrote:
| I really like the idea of this. A bit more information about how
| the site actually works would be useful, perhaps within that
| modal that is presented when you land on the page. There's a lot
| of context that I have from visiting through HN so it's not
| terribly confusing to me, but to a random person they'd have no
| idea what's going on.
| tikkun wrote:
| What is this / what does it do? I'm confused by the site and the
| OP :)
| MO-379 wrote:
| right now its a courses site powered by AI and youtube, each
| course has an outline and when you click on a page you can
| 'study', the AI generates study content and tests, and performs
| a youtube search to find relevant videos that you can watch.
| It's an education platfor for...anything and everything.
| simple10 wrote:
| This looks promising!
|
| For anyone trying it out, it seems like the UX is a lot different
| when you're logged in. From what I could tell, the basic idea is
| you can create a new "course" based on a description of what
| you'd like to learn, then Coursely builds a custom playlist and
| course tracker for you.
|
| A few feature requests & thoughts...
|
| It would be super useful if I could give Coursely an existing
| video or playlist and then have it build out additional topics
| and videos into the generated course. The ability to add videos
| into lessons would also be useful (or maybe I missed in the UI?).
|
| A welcome / instructions video is probably needed to help guide
| users through the UI. But overall, I really like the concept of
| what you're building.
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