14 comments

  • dbbk9 minutes ago
    I don't think there's a business here, sorry. If people are in the mindset to have AI teach them something, they will either just ask a chatbot like normal, or at most they will use something like Gemini's Guided Learning. They're not going to pay for this.
    • dominotw2 minutes ago
      i will pay for it. I dont like chatbot ux for learning. for example if a reading about transformers and i want to take a detour into mlp then i can potentially fork the thread chat about mlp there and come back or pollute the current context. i dont like either of those.
  • kerryritter53 minutes ago
    Building educational content to teach users how to use your software is extremely challenging. Would be interesting to position this against startups.<p>Most of those subject matters - to me - are fun to chat with LLMs with to learn (Gemini hooked to web research works nicely).<p>But the expectations of easy-to-use software is rising. A solution to this problem would be extremely valuable.<p>Sorry, this comment feels a bit like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;shorts&#x2F;61ZqBW30LLA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;shorts&#x2F;61ZqBW30LLA</a> but just rambling
    • zackashen45 minutes ago
      Haha, no that makes sense. I think we&#x27;ve seen a few other people building toward what you are describing, but it definitely would be interesting to see if people end up generating courses in this direction. I think there was a company in a recent YC batch called Clicky (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.heyclicky.com&#x2F;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.heyclicky.com&#x2F;</a>) that built something adjacent to what you are describing (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;FarzaTV&#x2F;status&#x2F;2041314633978659092" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;FarzaTV&#x2F;status&#x2F;2041314633978659092</a>).
  • jaldert3 hours ago
    Interesting!<p>I get blocked on the phone number screen on sign up.<p>This has two issues:<p>1) It seems to require a US phone number (555-555-5555)? 2) Ideally I don&#x27;t want to share my phone number at all. It says it is for finding friends, but I think many people don&#x27;t want to share their phone number this lightly.<p>The app also tries to get access to my contact list - not ideal for just trying something out :)
    • zackashen3 hours ago
      Thanks! We are currently working on enabling international sign ups. Regarding the contact list and sharing your phone number, we wanted to make the app so you could interact with your friends courses as well. Sharing your contacts is also skippable. If it seems like users aren&#x27;t using any features that would make interacting with users helpful, then we&#x27;ll definitely remove requesting phone numbers in onboarding.
      • jaldert2 hours ago
        OK, I&#x27;ll keep an eye on this thread to see when I can try the app without this requirement!<p>Would people not be able to share their courses via a url?<p>Anyway, I don&#x27;t want to sound negative here, good luck!
        • zackashen2 hours ago
          Yes we have the ability to share courses via a url. No worries. Appreciate the feedback.
  • written-beyond15 minutes ago
    Congratulations on the Launch! looks great
  • fduran54 minutes ago
    Are the courses meant only for personal consumption or can&#x2F;will they be offered to other people? (for ex I have a Linux&#x2F;DevOps training &amp; assessment platform)
    • zackashen52 minutes ago
      Courses are publicly available. When you generate a course anyone on the app can enroll in it.
  • rahimnathwani3 hours ago
    I&#x27;m excited to try this.<p>I installed it on an iPad Air (M2). On launch, I am given two options:<p>- Get started (primary CTA). Tapping this takes me to a blank screen.<p>- Sign in (secondary CTA). Tapping this and choosing &#x27;Continue with email&#x27; gives me a login screen. I tried entering my email and choosing a password but it says &quot;Couldn&#x27;t find your account&quot;
    • zackashen3 hours ago
      Really sorry about that. We are looking into what happened. Do you mind sending us an email at founders@trykeet.com, so we can help you get signed up.
  • hutattedonmyarm1 hour ago
    That logo for „introduction to topology“ feels incredibly off. The Möbius Loop doesn’t connect to itself in the back
    • zackashen1 hour ago
      Yea we generate the course icons with a quick image generation model so total accuracy in representations is not guaranteed. But the actual courses themselves use research to construct the outlines and videos. Feel free to email us (founders@trykeet.com) if you end up taking that course and have any other thoughts.
      • jonplackett1 hour ago
        So do you guarantee accuracy for the course content itself, or is that also not guaranteed?
        • zackashen1 hour ago
          We use pretty comprehensive web searches to find examples and real worked problems to use in courses and base the curriculum and roadmaps off of publicly available syllabi, so from our experience the content has been accurate. We haven&#x27;t seen anything inaccurate but that could certainly be possible, just like learning via the internet or from any other source.
  • blazarquasar2 hours ago
    Phone number sign-up means instant delete. Absolute no-go.
    • zackashen2 hours ago
      Sorry about that. We wanted to implement more social features on the app to let users learn with their friends which we figured letting users find friends from their contacts&#x2F;phone number. Understand that isn&#x27;t for everyone and we might make some changes to make those social features opt-out.
      • soco2 hours ago
        Not about your app but every and I mean EVERY app implements these social features, and I don&#x27;t know anyone in my circles actually USING whatever social features - even if we talk about our experiences with common apps. Are you sure you&#x27;re not just investing programming effort into nothing?
        • zackashen2 hours ago
          We&#x27;ve seen some of the people on the app using the social features, but yea I think on some apps it doesn&#x27;t get used. I think if no one ends up using these features we&#x27;ll just remove them.
  • rubymamis3 hours ago
    The QR code that shows on hovering the &quot;Download&quot; button is very cool! Kudos to the person who came up with that.
    • zackashen3 hours ago
      Thanks! I can&#x27;t take credit though I first saw it on the landing page for Halo (halohabits.app).
  • netdevphoenix3 hours ago
    Isn&#x27;t video generation expensive? Are you letting&#x2F;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.
    • zackashen3 hours ago
      We are generating the videos using Remotion via React so its not as expensive as using a AI video model like Veo. There are three places where you can customize the course before you generate:<p>1) The initial prompt where you type what you want to learn<p>2) There are a couple universal follow up questions that ask the depth and breadth you want to learn at<p>3) There are then some course specific intent questions we ask that ask content specific questions. For example if you type &quot;History of NYC&quot; we might ask &quot;What time period do you want to focus on?&quot;
  • iamcoder183 hours ago
    Super cool!<p>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?
    • zackashen2 hours ago
      Both workflows follow the same broad pattern. First, break the video into a set of scenes, then plan the scene, write the code, render it, and iteratively refine the result.<p>For Remotion, the AI determines what resources the scene will need, whether that be images, generated assets, or prebuilt visual components. This part doesn&#x27;t happen in Manim because its more for math based visualizations.<p>Re costs, both workflows have a series of presets that make the implementation less expensive and more consistent. The reduction in price for the Terra model series has been particularly helpful for us.
      • iamcoder182 hours ago
        I see. Once again, really cool product! Congrats!
  • toomuchtodo4 hours ago
    Very cool, congrats on the launch. Are there any licensing issues with customers releasing generated courses with copyleft or public domain licensing?
    • zackashen4 hours ago
      Thanks! Right now, any course you generate is freely accessible to anyone on the app. Sharing the course requires other users to sign up for Keet. In the future, we could build in some features to allow users to extract the course outlines and videos, but we haven&#x27;t seen that requested so we don&#x27;t have any licensing in place for that.
  • vancekai1 hour ago
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  • thataccount4 hours ago
    I thought this was keet.io. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keet.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keet.io&#x2F;</a><p>I sense a potential problem here.
    • zackashen3 hours ago
      We&#x27;ve had the same name for the past few years, but hadn&#x27;t seen this other app. Sorry about the confusion. If it ends up being something that we see confusing potential users we will take a closer look.
      • marjipan2002 hours ago
        the other Keet has been around 4 years with millions of downloads. Might make distinguishing your app in searches challenging