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Show HN: I made AI app to deliver courses as newsletters

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Post by Ankur_Datta »

Hey HN.

When I was an intern, I was supposed to take 5-6 udemy courses. Some lessons were an absolute waste of time.

So I built offthreadr, where courses are AI powered. The snippets of the course is directly sent to your inbox just like a newsletter. This makes learning asynchronous and makes it easy to skip the bs lessons.

Since, its AI powered: you can also chat with course content and get the questions answered in seconds rather than hours while waiting on the udemy QA board.

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Post by Ankur_Datta »

Hey I'm Ankur, For the past 3mo, I've been building offthreadr.

I realized that async-courses(non-cohort) based courses are also fairly synchronous, cos it'd have these long lessons/lectures extending for hours.

I thought with AI, I can convert the lessons into snippets and send it over the mail, making it like a newsletter. Cos I'm an avid reader of newsletters. This helps us know what's coming, know the key-topics. This also helps avoid going to chat-with-course bot and asking it to summarize.

I'm planning to add more integrations like discord, whatsapp, etc.

I've created a few free courses compiling videos from youtube. Do check it out.

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Post by jaggs »

I took a look and it looks good. You've clearly thought about the platform. However I foresee problems for you to get traction.

1. You're one (young) person. 2. You're based in India 3. You're asking people to spend a large amount of money, with no guarantee that you'll be around in 6 months. 4. The 'dev hit by a bus' syndrome. 5. One demo does not make a product.

Solutions?

1. Get and show a team somehow 2. Get some connection with US/EU somehow (only if you want to market there) 3. Do something with your pricing to make it easier for people to test the system. 4. Start to give away accounts to gain testimonials, community and other proof points. 5. See if you can partner with any org. Maybe an Indian university, or a well known YouTuber in education or something which again will give you launch credibility. 6. Think about approaching an incubator, which will give you credibility, network and hopefully users.

Good luck!

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Post by Ankur_Datta »

jaggs wrote: post #3

I took a look and it looks good. You've clearly thought about the platform. However I foresee problems for you to get traction. 1. You're one (young) person. 2. You're based in India 3. You're asking people to spend a large amount of money, with no guarantee that you'll be around in 6 months. 4. The 'dev hit by a bus' syndrome. 5. One demo does not make a product. Solutions? 1. Get and show a team somehow 2. Get some…

Thanks for the dissection! Will definitely consider getting partners from US/EU
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