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This is a platform that connects travelers with vetted family homestays in developing countries, facilitating unique cultural experiences while generating revenue for local communi…

Pageturners is a new product for school-going students from Great Books Homeschool, which I started based on my experience designing a secular literature-based homeschooling curric…

Hi everyone, Great Books Homeschool has just released this free tool for generating high school transcripts using the standard American unweighted GPA system. It's available to the…

Story Multiplier makes it fun to learn the times table by generating kid-friendly short stories about each multiplication fact using parameters chosen by the student. The stories a…

This is really helpful. I'll see if I can add something like this to the landing or about pages.

Kids' art has a fresh, innocent style that can be very uplifting and is hard for an older artist to replicate.

We actually do include Life of Fred as an optional supplement for elementary grades and an alternative core curriculum for high school. My seven-year-old loves it!

Thanks for this detailed feedback! Re introducing reading separately from writing, this is recommended in The Well-Trained Mind and A Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading and worked …

Yes, this is a secular curriculum. It's intended to address a bit of a market gap in that respect as well.

Good to know. Right now the only way to view sample units is to create a free trial account.

That's a good idea. Maybe we can include some screenshots in the homepage or How It Works page to give visitors a better idea of what it looks like when you create an account and g…

Thanks, this is helpful to hear. It's interesting that one of the main pieces of feedback we get is about pricing. Some people say that it is overpriced, others that we should be c…

Thanks! I am familiar with some of these and a big fan of The Well-Trained Mind. Our curriculum uses "Great Books" in a broader sense of quality fiction and nonfiction literature, …

Yes, my hypothesis was that the works would be attractive because of their lack of professionalism, not in spite of it.

Thanks for the feedback. That's a really intriguing idea. It would be interesting to test once the site has more traffic. Optimizing the images is definitely on my to-do list. Feel…

I built this customizable literature-based K-12 homeschool curriculum, based on my experience as a homeschool parent. It's designed especially for intellectually curious kids who l…

A while ago I started a marketplace for kids to sell their artwork as a side project. It has grown organically to ~300 listings, but only about a dozen sales mostly to family and f…

As a homeschool parent, I've spent the past decade compiling the best learning resources I could find for creative, intellectually curious kids and teenagers. In Great Books Homesc…

Assembling an educational curriculum for your homeschooled child is way more work than it needs to be. Comprehensive prepackaged curricula often cost thousands of dollars, are bori…

That's an interesting idea. Currently there is no financial incentive to pick successful projects, because the entrepreneurs don't receive the repayments personally. We may add som…