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24 alternatives to Athro
Crowdsourced Learning Maps for the Open Web
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Athro launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hello HN, Over the last 12 months, I have been building https://learnawesome.org This idea came from Danny Hillis' 2012 talk at OSCON, which itself was inspired from Neal Stepehenson's _The Diamond Age : A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer_ The dream is to build a tool that matches the right learning material to the right student at the right time. Wikipedia is great, but it doesn't do a good job of leveraging the rich variety of learning resources that exist on the Web. Same applies to GoodReads - which is focused only on books, whereas these days we actually learn from videos,…
2020 · its alternatives →
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Learn Anything▲687Search Interactive Maps to Learn Anything
2017 · learn-anything.xyz · its alternatives →
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2014 · mysliderule.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! We're happy to announce the launch of Mapedia.org, an open source crowdsourced learning map! Mapedia is a new kind of learning platform at the crossroad between Wikipedia, Google Maps and Khan Academy: a learning map built collaboratively to support online learners to learn any topic seamlessly. We built an interactive learning map of topics to be able to visualize the different fields of knowledge, what concepts are included in them and how they relate to each other. This allows for curiosity based exploration, identifying knowledge gaps (unknown unknowns) and figuring out what to…
2022 · mapedia.org · its alternatives →
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2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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JavaScript.com▲217A free resource for learning and developing in JavaScript
2015 · its alternatives →
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I built this tool because I wanted a way to just take a bunch of URLs or domains, and query their content in RAG applications. It takes away the pain of crawling, extracting content, chunking, vectorizing, and updating periodically. I'm curious to see if it can be useful to others. I meant to launch this six months ago but life got in the way...
2024 · embedding.io · its alternatives →
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Code is still in pre-alpha but is perfectly usable, what do you think we can do better ?
2023 · learnhouse.app · its alternatives →
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Build, share, learn, and thrive in front-end development
2019 · its alternatives →
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