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Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses

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Re: Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses

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Post by notachatbot123 »

bestwillcui wrote: post #12
bananapub wrote: post #5

How do you validate you’re not generating garbage, and thus teaching people nonsense?

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.

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?

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Post by tdthree »

chairhairair wrote: post #19
tdthree wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. Any content that we monetize we are revenue sharing with the creator. We already have more than 5 partnerships with creators.

3b1b is a monetized partner? Association with that brand would be very valuable.

Not yet! We don't monetize his content (it's not behind a paywall). But we are talking with him :)

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Post by CharlieDigital »

ix101 wrote: post #17

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?

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).

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Post by breakpointalpha »

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

Re: Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses

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Post by bestwillcui »

ix101 wrote: post #17

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?

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.

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Post by haswell »

tdthree wrote: post #10
pxndxx wrote: post #7

Are the people that create the content okay with this?

Yes. Any content that we monetize we are revenue sharing with the creator. We already have more than 5 partnerships with creators.

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

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Post by notpushkin »

joshdavham wrote: post #23

How worried are you about platform risk?

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.

Re: Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses

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Post by bestwillcui »

breakpointalpha wrote: post #25

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

Thanks, we'll reach out. We have a poker course from MIT (https://miyagilabs.ai/course/mit15s50) but yea these seem more practical & engaging.

Re: Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses

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Post by eochaid »

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.

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