[HN Gopher] Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into...
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Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online,
interactive courses
Hey HN, we're Tyrone and Guang, founders of Miyagi Labs
(https://miyagilabs.ai), an AI-powered education platform that
transforms educational YouTube videos into interactive courses. It
helps you learn better through active practice and personalized
feedback. We use LLMs to automatically generate quizzes, practice
questions, and real-time feedback from any educational video or
resource--turning passive watching into active learning. Here's a
short demo: https://youtu.be/alO7FaorHOY. Improving education has
always been tricky. Bloom's 2-sigma problem (showing that a high-
quality personal tutor is far more effective than conventional
methods) has persisted, even as technology has advanced. We met at
MIT as CS majors and have always been passionate about education.
Over the years, we've become teachers and experts in subjects like
chess, algorithms, math, languages, and ninja warrior. A common
theme was that we both heavily relied on YouTube to learn. YouTube
has incredible content for learning pretty much anything, but it's
buried in a lot of distractions. Also, passively watching videos is
far less effective than taking notes, asking questions, and doing
practice problems, which is what we aim to do with Miyagi Labs.
Our solution is essentially a multi-step function that takes in a
YouTube playlist (or list of any resources) and outputs an entire
course with summaries, questions, answers, and more. The pipeline
is roughly: video/resource --> transcript/text --> chunks -->
summary and question --> answers to questions, with some other
features along the way. We mostly use prompting and different
models at each step to make the course as useful as possible.
Certain topics require more practice problems vs. comprehension,
and we'd use reasoning models for highly technical subjects. We
launched about three months ago and currently have 400+ courses and
partnerships with some businesses and awesome creators. Some of our
popular courses include 3Blue1Brown's linear algebra course, a
botany course on plants and ecology, and YC's How to Start a
Startup series. Our product resembles classical MOOC-style course
platforms in terms of UI, but is more interactive. It's really easy
to ask a question or receive custom feedback compared to a static
course on Coursera. It's also comparable to AI tutor sites, but we
try to build more of a community and require less activation energy
as a learner. We're basically betting that AI can hugely improve
education, but that students still want to learn from their
favorite creators and want baseline shared resources for standard
topics that are then augmented with personalized features. You can
try it here: https://miyagilabs.ai (no login required for most
courses--but if you sign up you can also create your own course).
We'd love your feedback on what kinds of videos/resources you'd
like to learn from, what's missing from current learning tools, and
if you know any creators or educators who would like to
collaborate. Happy to hear any feedback and answer any questions!
Author : bestwillcui
Score : 144 points
Date : 2025-05-13 12:56 UTC (10 hours ago)
| lassenordahl wrote:
| Just wanna say that this is one of those magical ideas that I'd
| never personally think of, but when I see it like this, it makes
| perfect sense! So cool.
| rylan-talerico wrote:
| Nice work! Really cool.
| karar01 wrote:
| Good Stuff!
| bananapub wrote:
| How do you validate you're not generating garbage, and thus
| teaching people nonsense?
| bestwillcui wrote:
| For official courses, we go over the generated course with the
| creator to vet the content. Generally they're pretty impressed
| but have a few things they'd like to change/add before
| publishing.
|
| For self-created courses, it's generally been quite accurate
| and we're playing around with some eval metrics to make it as
| good as possible, but it's definitely a concern.
| kamranjon wrote:
| Is the course creator being impressed the most important
| metric? Are there other more concrete metrics you are able to
| use to determine quality from the perspective of a student?
|
| I am curious if you are using any methodologies from the
| digital learning space like knowledge tracing to help ensure
| that learners are actually retaining knowledge and improving
| over time or knowledge mapping to understand the gaps that
| might exist in your content?
|
| Do you maintain your own skills taxonomy? Are you tagging
| your questions or assessment events with knowledge components
| or skills of any kind to understand what you are testing your
| students for?
|
| All of this is really cool, I'm just curious at what level
| you've gotten to on some of this because there is a very fine
| line in online educational content between making the
| students life more difficult and actually helping them learn,
| especially when you get into auto-generating content, and
| especially if you aren't following solid principles to verify
| your content. (I work for an online education company and
| particularly in the space of training LLMs and verifying
| their outputs for use in educational contexts)
| bestwillcui wrote:
| At this stage it seems like a good metric since it's the
| creator's content. We're adding a feature for question
| feedback from users, so they can like/dislike/report
| questions, but very open to other metrics if you have any
| ideas.
|
| Yep--also in the process of adding learning paths for
| certain subjects, so you can go from an introductory course
| to more advanced topics and fill in gaps in understanding.
| Agreed: our mission is to help students actually learn in
| the best way possible, we have individual courses now to
| start out but the goal is to integrate the learning
| experience.
|
| Very curious to chat about what you guys do, and if you
| have recs for any literature in the space that we should
| look at.
| notachatbot123 wrote:
| So in less promotional words:
|
| - For official courses the creators are doing some quality
| control and do necessary fixes. - For self-created courses
| there is zero human supervision or quality control.
|
| Is that correct?
| bestwillcui wrote:
| Yes for the first, technically yes for the second? The user
| can go in and change the content as well (i.e. if it's a
| teacher generating a course for students). But not sure
| what other human supervision + quality control methods
| you're referring to that we could implement.
| vm wrote:
| For anyone else interested in Bloom's 2-sigma, here's the
| original paper (1984): https://web.mit.edu/5.95/readings/bloom-
| two-sigma.pdf
|
| Blows my mind that 1:1 tutoring dwarfs the impact of other
| factors such as socioeconomic status, reinforcement, assigned
| homework, classroom morale, etc (at least according to the
| researchers).
|
| Does anyone know if this thesis has been replicated? Or if these
| results hold in modern times (original study was 40 years ago)?
| basch wrote:
| Would be nice ie to see this product with focus on elementary
| school age content.
| WildRyc wrote:
| The article states that Anaina and Burke separately conducted
| their tests, but social robots [1] have been shown to be
| effective in individual tutoring. Human tutoring is not always
| better than a well-designed computer program [2]. There have
| been issues with how studies interpret their effect on group
| size / scalability [3].
|
| [1]
| https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/scirobotics.aat5954
| [2]
| https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00461520.2011.61...
| [3]
| https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/0013189X2091279...
| pxndxx wrote:
| Are the people that create the content okay with this?
| zoklet-enjoyer wrote:
| Who cares?
| Applejinx wrote:
| Marketers, among others
| haswell wrote:
| The people who spend hundreds of hours carefully creating
| content for their viewers care [0].
|
| The referenced video is from a photographer who has some
| pretty strong and reasonable thoughts on this - specifically
| the features YouTube itself is experimenting with.
|
| Depending on the nature of the AI product, it has the
| potential to completely sideline creators.
|
| Not saying that's what Miyagi is doing and it sounds like
| they're actually working with creators on this which is good.
| But the broader point is that such tools need to be
| thoughtfully implemented.
|
| - [0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ULUSS1-G3do
| zoklet-enjoyer wrote:
| They put their videos out for public consumption. Not
| behind a paywall. Once its out there, they lose control of
| how people interact with it. Should cliff notes and other
| study guides be banned or regulated?
| haswell wrote:
| I don't find Cliff's notes to be similar at all. They
| represent standalone short-form content written by
| authors that is a purchasable option alongside more in-
| depth options written by other (or at times the same)
| authors.
|
| If Cliff's notes were actually just AI summaries of
| specific books generated by an unrelated entity and
| presented in a way that allowed the reader to avoid
| purchasing the underlying content, that'd be a very
| different scenario.
|
| In the linked example, YouTube is essentially doing the
| latter. The product launched in this thread sits in a
| greyer area I think, but still raises some questions
| about content ownership and how creators will react to
| these new kinds of tools and modes of consumption.
|
| Whether or not it's strictly legal is a different
| conversation than whether or not creators feel
| comfortable with these emerging options.
|
| > _Once its out there, they lose control of how people
| interact with it._
|
| Sure. But they also have every right to choose to put it
| behind a paywall if new tools change the calculus that
| originally made publishing it publicly make sense.
| tdthree wrote:
| Yes. Any content that we monetize we are revenue sharing with
| the creator. We already have more than 5 partnerships with
| creators.
| chairhairair wrote:
| 3b1b is a monetized partner?
|
| Association with that brand would be very valuable.
| tdthree wrote:
| Not yet! We don't monetize his content (it's not behind a
| paywall). But we are talking with him :)
| haswell wrote:
| Do creators have the option to opt out?
|
| I'm still coming up to speed on the full scope of what your
| product does, but I'm curious what you'd say to someone like
| pal2tec, who has some fairly strong and what I feel to be
| reasonable views about the impact of content summarization
| [0].
|
| Getting direct buy-in and sharing revenue is great. But it's
| not clear to me that this is the only thing that creators
| care about, i.e. are you still summarizing content you're not
| monetizing without creator buy-in?
|
| - [0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ULUSS1-G3do
| solardev wrote:
| Not to be ironic, but... is there a summary of that video?
| It's a bit long and he doesn't seem to get to the point for
| quite a while.
| haswell wrote:
| It's an 8 minute video...and even shorter at 1.5X that
| will take me longer to summarize than you to watch.
|
| But in summary, YouTube is rolling out AI summarization
| features on some content without giving creators any say
| in the matter.
|
| Concerns include:
|
| - Low quality summarization of high quality content will
| devalue the content, and in many cases is just a worse
| version of the content
|
| - Impact to watch time on the channel can impact channel
| success over time
|
| - YouTube is not doing anything to compensate creators
| for reducing watch time such as sharing revenue from
| viewers who primarily interact with the AI summary
|
| But I think he articulates this much better than I did.
| Much better to watch the video.
| seventh12 wrote:
| The videos are the intellectual property of the creator,
| and YouTube has the rights to distribute and make money
| off of it for hosting it for you to billions of users.
| What's the problem? The creator can take their content
| somewhere else or host it themselves on their website
| solardev wrote:
| Thanks, I appreciate that!
|
| FWIW, unfortunately, I think the problem is a two-headed
| one, and maybe reversed for viewers vs creators. Creators
| want as many people to see their work as possible. But
| viewers have to sift through a graveyard of 95%+ junk
| videos to find the 5% worth watching. AI (or
| Google/TikTok/etc. in general) acting as gatekeeper in
| between isn't great, but not having any
| metrics/summaries/descriptions for videos would be even
| worse.
|
| In this particular case, I get that this particular
| creator might've had a point to make, but the description
| and summary were so cheekily written (to make a point, I
| guess) that I had no idea what it was about.
|
| The creators who I do follow typically make long-form
| educational videos with a lot of nuance; I wouldn't want
| to rely on even the best-written human summary for those.
| But there are many, many videos for which I'd prefer a
| 1-sentence summary over 3 minutes of intros and jokes, a
| 45-second sponsorship, and a gradual dramatic buildup
| before getting to the point.
|
| Not sure what the long-term solution is.
| bestwillcui wrote:
| Yep, if anyone didn't want their videos to be on our site,
| we would take it down.
|
| Just watched the video, I don't initially agree with his
| take completely but do totally respect the viewpoint and
| think a payment split to the creator whenever someone
| summarizes the video makes sense.
|
| Yes we do offer the option to summarize content without
| creator buy-in, although it seems a bit different since
| we're also augmenting the content with questions etc. which
| should drive users to watch the video even more as opposed
| to skip it and just read the summary.
|
| But you're right it's not perfect. If we ever have creators
| who don't want their stuff on our site we'd totally respect
| their wishes, but that hasn't been the case right now so
| this seems like the best thing to do.
| haswell wrote:
| I do think the fact that your product is likely to drive
| views makes this less of a concern than what YT is doing.
|
| From a creator's point of view, I think the concern would
| be about how true this remains as the product
| grows/evolves.
|
| But as long as there's an opt-out, that seems like a
| reasonable approach.
| Cherub0774 wrote:
| > Yep, if anyone didn't want their videos to be on our
| site, we would take it down.
|
| Do note that this behavior of "opting creators into a
| program without their consent, justifying it via revenue
| share, and CYA with a 'they can opt out if they want to!'
| shield" is still... awful optics.
|
| The whole Brave scandal
| (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736888) is a good
| case study on how laypeople will perceive this. It's not
| popular at all.
| q3k wrote:
| [flagged]
| bestwillcui wrote:
| I don't think that's true? We're embedding the videos,
| which is allowed.
|
| Also to be clear we have partnerships for all the
| featured courses. This refers to if a user creates a
| course based on some videos.
| q3k wrote:
| > I don't think that's true? We're embedding the videos,
| which is allowed.
|
| Are you not still making derivative content of the work
| without the copyright holder's permission? A judge might
| not care that much whether the video is embedded or not.
| fzysingularity wrote:
| Neat idea! Do you do anything with the video itself? Understand
| the visual content or extract details from slides?
| tdthree wrote:
| Users can upload slides (ie. docx or pptx) and create a course
| from them - give it a try! For videos, we don't currently
| process any frames from the video just the transcript, but this
| is on the roadmap.
| sperr11 wrote:
| Great concept!
| ix101 wrote:
| Amazing approach! Is learning a second language too different
| from the types of courses Miyagi was designed for, or do you see
| a potential for that category?
| CharlieDigital wrote:
| I was actually thinking about building this because I watch a
| lot of YT videos in other languages (best way to do travel
| research is to search the destination using the local name and
| getting local videos).
| bestwillcui wrote:
| Thanks! Definitely some potential, we actually built a language
| learning tool for a few days early on (but decided that it was
| too crowded of a space to start in).
|
| Learning languages seems a bit different in that there's more
| focus on repetition compared to comprehension questions, but
| there are certain topics (like grammar concepts) that could
| work well in our current structure. Also there are some really
| popular YouTube channels for learning any language, so we
| definitely see a potential to augment those videos to more
| accurately & effectively learn.
| joshdavham wrote:
| How worried are you about platform risk?
| notpushkin wrote:
| I don't think they're attached to YouTube too rigidly. (Well, I
| hope at least.) In theory this should work with any platform
| that provides subtitles. But I think if YouTube falls, or
| blocks their API access, they would just start hosting the
| videos themselves.
| tdthree wrote:
| Yea YouTube is only one format we support. Users can also
| upload pdfs, mp4, docx, pptx, etc. And we already do support
| video hosting ourselves. It wouldn't be great if YouTube
| decided to part ways with us, but we'd be just fine.
| joshdavham wrote:
| > In theory this should work with any platform that provides
| subtitles.
|
| Streaming platforms can vary quite a lot in how they choose
| to distribute subtitles. I've worked with scraping subtitles
| from both Youtube and Netflix and I will say that these
| platforms distribute subtitles very differently!
| breakpointalpha wrote:
| Poker, specifically Texas No Limit Hold'em, is widely taught on
| Youtube.
|
| Here are some of the very best in the category, it would be
| really cool if you partnered with any of these.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/@hungryhorsepoker
|
| https://www.youtube.com/@CarrotCornerPoker
|
| https://www.youtube.com/@PokerCoaching
| bestwillcui wrote:
| Thanks, we'll reach out. We have a poker course from MIT
| (https://miyagilabs.ai/course/mit15s50) but yea these seem more
| practical & engaging.
| tdthree wrote:
| Poker is interesting. I think these videos do work in our
| current course generation process. However, I do think some
| subjects like poker need custom tooling around the course to
| really make the learning experience great. For example, access
| to solvers or actually playing a hand on a table is a part of
| the course experience as well. Chess is another one that falls
| in this special bucket imo. Some of this tooling is on the
| roadmap!
| eochaid wrote:
| This is a fun concept, and I love the name!
|
| I'm curious why you didn't use multiple choice for the exercises?
| I feel like those would be easier than typing out full answers
| and be closer to MOOC style homework. Maybe have a longer written
| question at the end of a section.
|
| The exercises work pretty well, I like the highlighting red wrong
| vs. green right. It does feel a bit like the MOOC-style
| discussions. The tutor doesn't just tell you the answers which is
| cool, but something about talking with the tutor feels a bit
| flat. And the flashcards weren't very helpful for the course I
| picked.
|
| I could see myself doing some courses like this with some more
| gamification. Being able to filter by course provider
| (Ycombinator, or MIT) would be cool too.
| bestwillcui wrote:
| Thanks! We do have multiple choice questions now (agreed) but
| some of the older courses were generated when there were only
| short answer.
|
| Anything specific we could improve about talking to the tutor?
| Definitely will add some of those features and gamify better.
| eochaid wrote:
| Maybe give the tutor some personality or persona (having it
| speak as the instructor). I'm probably off base with that
| suggestion, though.
|
| Again, very cool idea. I'm going to try some of the nuclear
| courses later this week.
|
| Best of luck!
| sigmaisaletter wrote:
| Please don't, or at least don't without a looooooooooot of
| behind-closed-doors trial and error. There are few things
| more off-putting then an AI try-hard "i am a quirky hooman
| with quirky hooman personality traits".
| jmathai wrote:
| I think this is a great idea. I've learned so much on YouTube but
| it's always been in small chunks and very task oriented. I
| imagine there's a lot of content Which covers broad topics that I
| don't come across.
|
| Something I've been doing more and more lately is asking chatgpt
| to create a detailed description of a topic which can be read
| aloud for whatever duration I plan on driving. This works
| exceptionally well - even for short 5 minute drives.
|
| I wonder if the same can be done for video-based content.
| Sometimes I'm short on time but still want to learn something.
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| Does the list of resources simply need to be a list of links to
| video objects?
| tdthree wrote:
| They can be links or actual files such as mp4 videos.
| clamlady wrote:
| Can you extend this into language learning content on YT? I think
| that would also have amazing utility. As a biologist, so happy to
| see Crime Pays but Botany doesn't on here. Thanks for the awesome
| tool. I will be using it.
| ph4evers wrote:
| Yes! I did something similar with daily exercises at
| https://app.fluentsubs.com/exercises/daily
| aeblyve wrote:
| Great idea! Automated quiz generation seems like a nice use case
| for LLMs.
| skeeter2020 wrote:
| it's a natural extension after you use the LLM to generate the
| content. We do these in our content creation - and I assume
| learners use an LLM to answer them :)
| skeeter2020 wrote:
| I work in edtech and one of my teams is content creation, so
| pretty excited about this space but also very aware of the
| challenges and massive amounts of hype and over promise / under
| deliver. To assess I tried to generate a short (< 10m), one-video
| course from a YT video I've previously watched on a topic I'm an
| "expert" - after an hour all I see is the embedded video, the
| transcript and "generating content" dialog.
|
| UPDATE: " This course failed to generate. Please try again or
| contact us."
|
| I really like a lot of the components of your idea, but the
| execution is underwhelming. Right now it feels like you're
| providing middling tools for too many components without nailing
| any of them. Alternatively I could watch the YT video at all
| ready has a transcript, take notes in any tool, and ask questions
| to any LLM; the piece missing is context, so that's where it
| feels like you should focus.
|
| Re: assessments; it feels like you're being distracted here; I'm
| not convinced that's how your natural target market learns in
| this modality. We generate quizes in our product, but it's
| typically used in the "internal compliance" segment - think
| mandatory training like food safety for food preparers - not the
| external (typically adult) self-improvement market (which is
| huge!). If you're going to do asessments you need a lot of non-AI
| boilerplate around tracking, validation and
| certification/credentials. My two cents: quizes in your app are a
| cool demo feature with little real value.
| bestwillcui wrote:
| Sorry we're running into some rate limits with course
| generation but will be fixed soon. Valid points--will respond
| in a bit.
| andrethegiant wrote:
| Does it work on YouTube videos that have transcripts disabled?
| tdthree wrote:
| No, it won't work for those.
| lmrl wrote:
| You probably know this, but gemini is great to generate
| transcripts. I did a quick browser extension for that:
| https://github.com/za01br/yt-subtitle-extension
|
| Congrats on the launch!
| kubasienki wrote:
| Do you have any revenue sharing program with the content
| creators? Or are you just poaching them?
| wordpad wrote:
| They probably haven't decided yet
| not_wyoming wrote:
| That would mean poaching lol
| bestwillcui wrote:
| Lol yea not just poaching, we do revenue sharing (signed deals
| with a bunch of top creators). They get the majority of all
| revenue from courses.
|
| For instance we worked directly with Crime Pays but Botany
| Doesn't & Faculty of Khan etc. to get official courses that
| they also had input in, and 3Blue1Brown is on board with us
| having his content on our site.
| EcommerceFlow wrote:
| Really cool idea! Some improvements I'd recommend with the
| ultimate goal being "getting users to learn the subject at hand".
|
| 1) Section Lectures on the left side need to be cleaned up,
| instead of just a numbered list. Seeing 30+ lectures off rip is a
| bit daunting, especially with no labeling, sectioning, etc. I'd
| imagine feeding a model a list of all the lecture titles, then
| having it structured should work?
|
| 2) You're doing too much on the bottom section.
|
| You need to incorporate all those tabs into the single Ai tutor,
| which can run whatever tools required (maybe notes/discussion can
| be a small additional indication). No one's going to be using the
| Flashcards section, and it's calling probably the same LLM as the
| AI tutor, so might as well combine them.
|
| For the quiz, maybe when the video ends or the user wants to
| continue, the Ai Tutor goes into "quiz mode" forcing the user to
| attempt or pass the quiz (depending on the settings?).
|
| Think of this like Cursor but for Education. Cursors powerful
| agent can handle/do so much, you're not using 3-4 different
| fields.
|
| Oh and have it on the right side instead of transcript, so it's
| right there in users faces instead of having to scroll down.
| bestwillcui wrote:
| Great points. Definitely will improve the section lectures on
| the left, some formatting stuff to think about with the bottom
| section/transcript as well.
|
| Not completely sure about the AI tutor points though. I don't
| think the standard AI chat interface is the ideal form factor
| for the average person trying to learn something, and there's
| value in having pre-generated content that users can see
| instead of having to actively go to the tutor.
|
| Also, a lot of people do like using flashcards specifically to
| learn! Granted, our current implementation is pretty barebones
| so it's not super useful yet. And definitely agree that things
| can be cleaned up quite a bit.
| mlsu wrote:
| The tech looks cool.
|
| But it does seem that your platform ingests video content without
| the permission of the person who creates these videos? The value
| of your platform is driven by the people creating the videos. You
| say that you do revenue sharing, and that you have done 5
| partnerships. But you have 400 courses, so what about the other
| 395?
|
| Putting it as kindly as I can: this is ethically fraught. Really,
| did nobody in the room point this out? You _do not_ come off
| looking like a partner here.
|
| You need to make this opt-in, not opt-out, and specify revenue
| sharing terms up front. Those terms need to be generous. The
| people who produce video content are producing the majority of
| your product's value. Opt-out, of an ambiguous revenue sharing
| agreement, is _not enough._
| ncr100 wrote:
| See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43973153
| adambeecee wrote:
| This is awesome! Congrats Tyrone & Guang!
| sam1234apter wrote:
| Congrats on launch
| mayapugai wrote:
| This is really cool!
|
| Prof. Steve Brunton's YT channel is a treasure trove of material
| for you folks, with course-like playlists for controls, data-
| driven engineering, and dynamical systems:
| https://www.youtube.com/@Eigensteve/playlists
|
| He should be a featured creator, much like 3b1b is for math!
| bestwillcui wrote:
| We'll reach out and hopefully add some courses! Thanks.
| bredren wrote:
| I am very interested in this, and I have personally built manual
| workflows to do Youtube video -> rip audio->transcript->llm
| context.
|
| For example, taking a video about building garden retaining walls
| and generating detailed system prompts for Q&A with the expert in
| the video.
|
| I reference ~home improvement or tool videos and often comments
| contain points of wisdom or even corrections of mistakes (errata)
| on videos that are otherwise good. For example, setting up a hand
| plane and ways to mark a board you're working on.
|
| Do you use video comments in your context? I've (manually)
| scraped content on educational videos and built prompting to
| assess signal and incorporate what are likely important errata in
| LLM context.
|
| > video/resource --> transcript/text -->
|
| For this step in your pipeline, are you multi-modal? I mean, are
| you using the LLM to interpret what is shown in the video itself?
| How is that content used?
|
| Do you have any sense for allowing people to generate educational
| content off arbitrary videos?
| bestwillcui wrote:
| For now we only use the YouTube transcript because for most
| educational content we've found it does about as well for lower
| cost.
|
| We may make that an option though, since we also offer other
| resource types (pdf, slides, docs) -> course.
| tdthree wrote:
| To your last question, what do you mean by arbitrary? If the
| video is not educational at all, then the generated course will
| likely not be good. If the video is pure entertainment then
| probably not a good use case.
| vasusen wrote:
| I was at Coursera for years and pitched this exact thing multiple
| times internally! So excited to finally see it being built.
| Congratulations on the launch!
|
| This concept is really cool and solves big challenges around
| content creation. Obviously, it adds new challenges around
| pedagogy, licensing, and ads. The last part is a big no no for
| blue chip edtech platforms.
| bestwillcui wrote:
| Thanks! We'd love to chat if you have any ideas or want to
| share your experience, we think Coursera is great. And yea
| totally understand the blue chip edtech thing, we're pretty
| excited to be a startup in this space.
| vasusen wrote:
| Happy to help and chat if it helps --> my username at donobu
| dot com
| badmonster wrote:
| this is super interesting would love to give it a try!
| scalewithlee wrote:
| Shout out to Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't :)
| bestwillcui wrote:
| Yea he's awesome! We just launched another official course with
| him yesterday haha (https://miyagilabs.ai/course/taxonomy-and-
| plant-id)
| mrtimo wrote:
| No python course?
| FergusArgyll wrote:
| How censored is the "AI Tutor"? can a parent leave their child
| with it unsupervised?
| bestwillcui wrote:
| It's currently run on gpt-4o with some prompting guardrails,
| but I wouldn't trust it completely for younger (elementary
| school age) children.
|
| Most of our courses are built for a slightly older age range,
| but we'd consider rolling out more beginner courses that are
| geared towards younger children and have more safety tests. If
| you have any thoughts let us know!
| popalchemist wrote:
| Seems to actually work! Thanks for sharing, I'll be checking it
| out.
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