Since all the lessons here are CC BY-SA, anyone, Khan Academy included, can use them as long as they keep them open. I’m also aiming to build this project in a way that it doesn’t really need me to stay alive. It’s a static site with no servers or accounts, so it costs almost nothing to run. If by any chance I ever stop, anyone can copy the repo and keep it going, lessons included. That’s kind of the point of making it open source.
Thank you for your feedback. Honestly many of the best IMO books I came across challenged readers in similar ways, but that style isn’t suitable everywhere of course. And yes, so far I’ve found and corrected many such stupid mistakes 😄 That’s why community contribution will be really important here.
Regarding my background, my full name is publicly visible on github. You can search that up to see some of my background, education and activities. I have talked to some teachers about this and used their feedbacks, but there’s still a long way to go. I can’t foresee the future, but I’m serious about exploring this projects potential.
The code is just the player and not the most important aspect of this project. the actual lessons (the part that matters) are CC BY-SA 4.0, which is basically GPL for content. anyone who reuses or changes them has to keep them open under the same license and credit the project. same license wikipedia uses.
I’ve already read through at least 30% of all the pages myself. I don’t think we’ll have problem verifying stuff. And how’d I know that other non opensource websites don’t have mistakes? I’ve seen many such problems in the biggest names like leetcode and khan academy.
I never claimed that this is currently a finished product. My argument is that we’ll verify and improve it as a community together. On each page, I placed a button where you can suggest an improvement or report a mistake. And no, It’s NOT a copy of Brilliant. I didn’t use any of their content, and they sure don’t own maths and natural sciences.
I get it mate, there’s a lot of low effort stuff out there right now. I did use AI a lot, but this isn’t a one prompt thing, and it sure isn’t done yet. I’m fixing lessons as people report problems. if you try one and it’s actually bad, easily use the report button and we’ll fix it.
I can imagine that with this contribution system, it’ll become WAY better than Brilliant. Take a moment and imagine that for a second. We’d have the best interactive learning software that’s also open source and free for everyone.
good points both. I’ve implemented this system where anyone can suggest an improvement and it opens up an issue on github. So feel free to report any improvements you can think of.
translations are on my list, and it sure can be done with ai agents. But the quality and tone have to still be checked by someone.
that’s so nice to hear, homeschooling was one of the things I had in mind.
thanks a lot, really glad it worked well for u! if you run into anything weird or want to contribute feel free to open up a PR
Fair questions. for you $13/month is fine, but I personally remember that I didn’t wanna spend this much money years ago when I needed it.
on accuracy: right now it’s me going through lessons plus anyone who hits the flag button, and every fix is public on github. I’m not going to pretend that’s the same as a team of experts, it’s honestly the weak spot and why I posted here. if you know a subject well and want to check a course, I’d really appreciate it. Together we can make this much better that Brilliant :)
I agree. I’ll make the modifications later. Thank you.