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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 sigmaisaletter »

eochaid wrote: post #54
bestwillcui wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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!

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".

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

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Post by mayapugai »

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!

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

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Post by bredren »

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?

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

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Post by vasusen »

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.

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

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Post by bestwillcui »

mayapugai wrote: post #72

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!

We'll reach out and hopefully add some courses! Thanks.

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

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Post by bestwillcui »

bredren wrote: post #73

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 tha…

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.

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Post by tdthree »

bredren wrote: post #73

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 tha…

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.

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

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Post by joshdavham »

notpushkin wrote: post #28
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.

> 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!

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