LearningJar- Learn Skills Informally

#1

Post by americandesi333 » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 4:54 PM UTC

I would love to get feedback on my education technology startup from the HN community. Its helping people gain employable skills informally and prove what they have learned.

LearningJar- Learn Skills Informally
learningjar.com

Re: LearningJar- Learn Skills Informally

#2

Post by iamkovacs » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 5:04 PM UTC

A refreshing new player in the education and skill-development field. I'm definitely keeping and eye on this one and it's my first stop for new skills I want to improve.

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#3

Post by eykanal » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 5:12 PM UTC

At first glance, the site seems to be nothing more than an aggregator of tutorials. If there's a differentiating factor, I'm not seeing it.

Re: LearningJar- Learn Skills Informally

#4

Post by americandesi333 » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 5:17 PM UTC

eykanal wrote: post #3

At first glance, the site seems to be nothing more than an aggregator of tutorials. If there's a differentiating factor, I'm not seeing it.

Thanks for your feedback! We are helping people figure out the skills they need for a new role, connecting them to disparate content via our partnerships and then in the backend integrating with those content providers to track your informal learning in one place so you can use it to apply for jobs.

Will definitely try to get that across better with our landing page.

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#5

Post by p_apps » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 5:23 PM UTC

Another site with facebook login required, no thanks. Why not openid, or other authentication options?

Re: LearningJar- Learn Skills Informally

#6

Post by americandesi333 » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 5:26 PM UTC

p_apps wrote: post #5

Another site with facebook login required, no thanks. Why not openid, or other authentication options?

We are working on adding other authentication options as we have heard that feedback :) The reason we started with Login with Facebook is because it makes it easy on users. They dont have to upload picture and fill out more forms for LearningJar.

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#7

Post by jdeseno » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 5:41 PM UTC

That's a pretty striking lack of diversity in the call to action on the main page. ^C^P^P.

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#8

Post by engtech » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 5:47 PM UTC

I need to have some demo of what is going to happen on a site before I use facebook connect or give you any login information in any way.

Requiring a logged in user to use the site should not be the first step.

Re: LearningJar- Learn Skills Informally

#9

Post by americandesi333 » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 5:47 PM UTC

jdeseno wrote: post #7

That's a pretty striking lack of diversity in the call to action on the main page. ^C^P^P.

We actually want to and looking to add more people! LearningJar is started by two women and we strongly believe in diversity.

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#10

Post by jdeseno » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 6:04 PM UTC

americandesi333 wrote: post #9

jdeseno wrote: post #7

That's a pretty striking lack of diversity in the call to action on the main page. ^C^P^P.

We actually want to and looking to add more people! LearningJar is started by two women and we strongly believe in diversity.

The call out is "what I want to be" and of the 3 choices I'm given, all 3 are white male 25-30 something techies.

I can't understand why you'd want to advertise that so blatantly. I'd recommend something less abstract, like a useful explanation of what your site does etc.