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Re: Launch HN: Epihub (YC S20) – Shopify for teaching online

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epigrammar works as sort of a nice play on words when you consider epigram. But epihub does not. Teachify is much better. The only point against it is it isn't very euphonious but then neither is epihub. Maybe edify, since it is already a word. But I think even so Teachify is better because everyone gets immediately sort of what your problem domain is.

Big Teachify crowd here! I will say, Epihub was really the byproduct of Epigrammar (as Mike highlighted above) and us just using the term “hub” a lot. It was hard to mispronounce, we had the .com, it felt like an homage to our previous work, and we didn’t think about it too much afterward. I do like Teachify though. It’s a pretty great name; I can’t lie.

Even though I also think that epihub sounds like epipen or something epidemiology related (especially in the time of covid) - getting a 6 letter dot comfor a nice prononceable name is not a small feat haha. That alone is a not insignificant number of points in favor of the name.

Re: Launch HN: Epihub (YC S20) – Shopify for teaching online

#52
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μὴ φρόντιζε (don't worry): we have a reason! I used to teach Greek and Latin, and our very first product, Epigrammar, took its inspiration from Classical antiquity: the English word “epigram” comes from “ἐπί” (epi) and “γράφειν” (graphein) meaning “to write upon” (historically, epigrams were written upon household items such as broken pottery or sea shells). With Epigrammar, we wanted to digitize the ancient way of w…

Epihub sounds more like a map of epipen sale points or something like that. Definitely 0 association with teaching.

Yep Epipens was where I went too

Re: Launch HN: Epihub (YC S20) – Shopify for teaching online

#53
post #36

Great idea. Not crazy about the name though because it doesn’t evoke anything. I would consider changing. Why not go all the way with the Shopify analogy and call it Teachify?

μὴ φρόντιζε (don't worry): we have a reason! I used to teach Greek and Latin, and our very first product, Epigrammar, took its inspiration from Classical antiquity: the English word “epigram” comes from “ἐπί” (epi) and “γράφειν” (graphein) meaning “to write upon” (historically, epigrams were written upon household items such as broken pottery or sea shells). With Epigrammar, we wanted to digitize the ancient way of w…

If it takes that length of explanation then you've got an issue. Also I won't remember that to tell a friend. Teachify on the hand is a gift

Re: Launch HN: Epihub (YC S20) – Shopify for teaching online

#55
Congrats on all your hard work, this looks great. I just signed up and am clicking my way through it, to understand how it works.

One question, regarding subscription. I only see a premium plan, for £15.00/mo. Are there different levels of subscription? I only ask because I am thinking of teaching Icelandic online, well, I do teach Icelandic online but currently only to one student and am feeling a bit overwhelmed by how to upscale, made the website, created YouTube content, but, not sure what to do next and whether I'll manage to spread the word enough to justify committing to a monthly cost or whether to give it up and just keep to that one student.

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