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  • Interesting!

    I get blocked on the phone number screen on sign up.

    This has two issues:

    1) It seems to require a US phone number (555-555-5555)? 2) Ideally I don't want to share my phone number at all. It says it is for finding friends, but I think many people don't want to share their phone number this lightly.

    The app also tries to get access to my contact list - not ideal for just trying something out :)

    by jaldert
  • Are the courses meant only for personal consumption or can/will they be offered to other people? (for ex I have a Linux/DevOps training & assessment platform)
    by fduran
  • Super cool!

    Would you mind giving more insight into how you make the videos (sourcing clips or generating them for Remotion videos, agentic?, and how you handle rendering issues and QA for the Manim videos) and costs?

    by Fe2O3
  • Isn't video generation expensive? Are you letting/making users generate series of videos without any plan? I think content depth and breadth would be good to check pre-generation at a minimum.
    by netdevphoenix
  • The QR code that shows on hovering the "Download" button is very cool! Kudos to the person who came up with that.
    by rubymamis
  • Very cool, congrats on the launch. Are there any licensing issues with customers releasing generated courses with copyleft or public domain licensing?
    by toomuchtodo
  • I'm excited to try this.

    I installed it on an iPad Air (M2). On launch, I am given two options:

    - Get started (primary CTA). Tapping this takes me to a blank screen.

    - Sign in (secondary CTA). Tapping this and choosing 'Continue with email' gives me a login screen. I tried entering my email and choosing a password but it says "Couldn't find your account"

    by rahimnathwani
  • I tested it and the videos look great, congrats on that.

    That said, I’m struggling to see a thriving business here, for two reasons. First, the moat looks shallow. Anthropic and OpenAI are already building in this space, and it’s hard to see what stops them from shipping something better and cheaper fully integrated with their ecosystem soon.

    Second, I don’t think customer behavior around AI-generated content (and especially in your case) is settled yet and this affects many similar business across the board. The videos are good, but perception is a separate question from quality. If your buyers are content creators, schools, and e-learning platforms, they’re ultimately selling to their own customers, and they’ll need confidence that the content won’t read as cheap, low-effort or similar to everyone else.

    This might be the golden era for starting a company, but building a wrapper around an LLM is risky unless something outside the software holds it up (proprietary data, distribution, a regulated position, real switching costs or any external component). Otherwise the model providers or a well-funded copycat can rebuild it.

    Wishing you guys good luck! All the best!

    by f18m

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