Does the list of resources simply need to be a list of links to video objects?
They can be links or actual files such as mp4 videos.
Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses
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#42I 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 (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.
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#43Great idea! Automated quiz generation seems like a nice use case for LLMs.
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 :)
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
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. a…
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 th…
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.
Re: Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses
#45I 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 ( 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…
Sorry we're running into some rate limits with course generation but will be fixed soon. Valid points—will respond in a bit.
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#46This 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 do…
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.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
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.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
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. a…
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 th…
> 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.
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#49Can 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.
Yes! I did something similar with daily exercises at https://app.fluentsubs.com/exercises/daily
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#50Does it work on YouTube videos that have transcripts disabled?