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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 bestwillcui »

EcommerceFlow wrote: post #60

Really cool idea! Some improvements I'd recommend with the ultimate goal being "getting users to learn the subject at hand". 1) Section Lectures on the left side need to be cleaned up, instead of just a numbered list. Seeing 30+ lectures off rip is a bit daunting, especially with no labeling, sectioning, etc. I'd imagine feeding a model a list of all the lecture titles, then having it structured should work? 2) You'r…

Great points. Definitely will improve the section lectures on the left, some formatting stuff to think about with the bottom section/transcript as well.

Not completely sure about the AI tutor points though. I don't think the standard AI chat interface is the ideal form factor for the average person trying to learn something, and there's value in having pre-generated content that users can see instead of having to actively go to the tutor.

Also, a lot of people do like using flashcards specifically to learn! Granted, our current implementation is pretty barebones so it's not super useful yet. And definitely agree that things can be cleaned up quite a bit.

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

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Post by bestwillcui »

vasusen wrote: post #74

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.

Thanks! We'd love to chat if you have any ideas or want to share your experience, we think Coursera is great. And yea totally understand the blue chip edtech thing, we're pretty excited to be a startup in this space.

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

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Post by bestwillcui »

FergusArgyll wrote: post #82

How censored is the "AI Tutor"? can a parent leave their child with it unsupervised?

It's currently run on gpt-4o with some prompting guardrails, but I wouldn't trust it completely for younger (elementary school age) children.

Most of our courses are built for a slightly older age range, but we'd consider rolling out more beginner courses that are geared towards younger children and have more safety tests. If you have any thoughts let us know!

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

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Post by vasusen »

bestwillcui wrote: post #84
vasusen wrote: post #74

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.

Thanks! We'd love to chat if you have any ideas or want to share your experience, we think Coursera is great. And yea totally understand the blue chip edtech thing, we're pretty excited to be a startup in this space.

Happy to help and chat if it helps --> my username at donobu dot com

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

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Post by fzysingularity »

tdthree wrote: post #13
fzysingularity wrote: post #8

Neat idea! Do you do anything with the video itself? Understand the visual content or extract details from slides?

Users can upload slides (ie. docx or pptx) and create a course from them - give it a try! For videos, we don't currently process any frames from the video just the transcript, but this is on the roadmap.

Ah ok. Nice!

Let us know if you’d want to extract from long videos. You might find this useful: https://docs.vlm.run/guides/video-ai/guide-video-transcripti...

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

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Post by adobbs »

vm wrote: post #6

For anyone else interested in Bloom's 2-sigma, here's the original paper (1984): https://web.mit.edu/5.95/readings/bloom-two-sigma.pdf Blows my mind that 1:1 tutoring dwarfs the impact of other factors such as socioeconomic status, reinforcement, assigned homework, classroom morale, etc (at least according to the researchers). Does anyone know if this thesis has been replicated? Or if these results hold in modern tim…

In my experience with 1:1 before and during my Masters in Education, nothing could compare to the learning and growth my students had from that highly personalized (and personal) instruction.

It's super common for students to not understand material or express that they don't, but it's just not possible to drill into each specific student's particular knowledge or skill level in the classroom environment.

On the social and behavioral side, many students who struggle in a classroom environment transform into model students when taught with both the care and privacy of 1:1.

For me, I feel it's a combination of hyper-personalized instruction plus compassion in a relationship where it feels safer for the student to accept the value of improving at something without social pressure or embarrassment.

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