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Tell us what you wanna learn and we’ll find high quality content for it

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25 pointsmtolga9 comments

I had problem with finding high quality resources online. Sometimes, I took me hours hours to find great content about a subject I want to learn. So, I created this landing page and me and my friends will find great high quality content according to your level. (Will only find the subjects we’re capable of finding)

I think you'll find that many of the difficult problems in this space worth solving require a great deal of domain specific knowledge, expertise and specialized apps for dealing with it.

For example: I'd like to find Chinese listening material, that is at my level, with pinyin and character subtitles, that follows a certain word repetition strategy optimized for listening learning. Plus, it needs to be able to playback at a fast speed and not too fast speed.

there's a lot of chinese audio podcasts out there but finding one that's exactly at my level and entertaining is challenging. Some apps do it really well, like "immersive chiense" but they need more material. Du Chinese is also a great contender but there's no word progression to the audio, so any listening you do, even if it's intermediate, contains words from HSK 5 and beyond. then those words aren't repeated for a long time, which means you have to repeat the same dialogue many times.

And those are the 2 best Chinese listening apps out of 100s of crappy ones.

the point is, these problems are complicated.

Hi there thanks for your comment.

Maybe you can create list on your domain of expertise for somebody else and share. So, they don’t have to search for really great resources. Probably you’d know all the great resources on your domain knowledge?

What do you think of that?

The website REQUIRES that you provide an email address before finding out how useful the website is. There is a "test it" button, but it just takes you back to the same page.

There also doesn't appear to be a link to this website's privacy practices. I decided to give it a try using a throwaway email address, and I got an email telling me "We'll get back to you". I'm not optimistic.

Hey thank you for commenting actually, we’ll take back to you but there is a lot of request right now so we have create an list to serve you guys. It can take a while but the main thing is we’ll try to best open resources possible for the given subject and create a collection out of it so you don’t have deal with fluff content

How about you generate a link to visit after getting the user's input and I can come back at my own convenience rather than give out my email to yet another website?

Please don't put "Show HN" on things that aren't ready yet for people to try out for themselves. This is in the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

I regret input a fake email...

Creating a high-quality human-curated online learning resource directory is a terrific idea.

Locking it behind an email/paywall destroys most of the value.

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