A project about learning while learning is a great way to go.
It’s really nice to hear you are a self taught developer. There is a different kind of free thinking and creativity to solve problems that comes from your path that others won’t have, and doesn’t have to be understood, only experienced.
the site looks real nice. Congrats and keep shipping.
People who use it are the only opinions that matter. This site makes you someone who makes something people want, while solving your own problem as a student, both of which YC like if you ever are interested one day down the road.
Feedback:
Instead of age you might be referring to stage of learning (complete beginner, some exposer, some experience, intermediate, advanced, etc).
Uncovering another way a group of people like to connect and start learning together around those topics is really good. You might be surprised if you modify the age guidelines for the following reason:
- Learning with other pellets around the same stage in a fantastic way to support peer based learning where people are a little ahead and behind of each other and end up reinforcing their own learning by explaining things to others and helping them, and also being helped.
- Having groups with synced schedules is a cool feature. If you focused on students globally their schedules would be different from time zones. Since the time zones would be different, there might be an opportunity to just do it by stage.
- Self-directed learners typically don’t stop learning at any age, they are usually good at being beginners in any age of their life because there is always something new to learn, or to learn from scratch. It lightheaded be hard to imagine it but a beginner to Python at 40 not much different than 18.
- If the site focuses even more on communicating learning stage, and being especially for self directed learners (but all are welcome) that might prove to help get even more of the types of users you are after.
- I agree I don’t think slapping an external discord chat and forums on a course is helpful as much as it’s convenient for the course creator. Chat and discussion should be built in seamlessly like other things we use. Edtech is generally poor at mindful learning and user experiences.
- You may like learning about the difference between pedagogy (how children learn) and andragogy (how adults learn) pedagogy can wrap up around 18-22 and after that learning and coming back to it can be a bit different.
If you’re interested to chat, I’ve also been building online learning since I was 16 or 17. That meant helping design and build a platform to deliver high school, college/university and then industry education and training. I’m into video now as it relates to learning.