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24 alternatives to Coursemate – connect with other self learners

Hey Hacker News! My name is Collin, 18 years old and doing a gap year after finishing high school last year. This was my first real project after starting to learn web development around 5 months ago. I came up with this idea as it was a real pain for me to find other people from my country and especially my age, learning and taking online courses about the same stuff online. Lots of these online courses include their own discord communities and forums, but I still found it very hard to connect with other people in there. Thats why I built Coursemate. I would love to get your feedback on it!…

Coursemate is a platform that helps self-learners connect with others studying the same online courses, particularly those in the same country and age group. It addresses the difficulty of finding peers within existing… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Coursemate – connect with other self learners launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Make school life easier and more collaborative 🪄

    2024 · coursemate.pl · its alternatives →

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    I've been a longtime member @ HN, but I haven't been a developer. In fact, my only HN submission has been one asking how to learn to code (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=820741). My cofounder and I decided to solve the problem by making a simple, interactive way to get started with Codecademy. We'd love your feedback. If you're interested in helping us to get more courses up (on any topic!), please send us an email at [email protected].

    2011 · codecademy.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey, everyone I made a website that lets you find study partners/groups based on the specific course/book you are studying. It's 100% free + no registration required. Why: I know there are many subreddits for finding study partners. But, one of the biggest reasons we can't find the right partner/group is lack of clarity. Most posts that I read on Reddit were something like: "I'm interested in programming. Let's study Python together..." - That's not a clear goal. But, when you say "Let's study the Python for Everybody course on Coursera. I'm from Mumbai, India, and I'm looking…

    2024 · moocable.com · its alternatives →

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    Create community courses for unlonely learning

    2021 · pathwright.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn your course into a full suite of embeddable AI agents

    Mar 2026 · productizeyourmind.com · its alternatives →

  6. 6SA

    I am aged 11 and founder of https://sprout9.net/ a platform for students to find great tutors. Please forgive me if I get this wrong and post it incorrectly. I would like fellow hackers to give me some constructive feedback on my MVP please. Ideas and suggestions as how I can improve my version 1.0 and how I can get the word out so I can help many students as possible. Thanks alot! Azaan

    2021 · its alternatives →

  7. 7LO

    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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    Create custom courses with AI-powered personalization

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Make your next course a next level course

    2022 · getcoursearchitect.com · its alternatives →

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    Discover the top cohort based courses, for free

    2021 · its alternatives →

  11. 11HP

    Hey everyone, I've been experimenting with collaborative learning and active learning for a while (I launched Coderoulette a couple of months ago) and I'm launching something new today that I'm really excited about. Online learning is pretty passive (video lectures) and lonely, and I think we could create an online learning experience much engaging and effective than that. Only 5% of people who start a Coursera course finish it. My hypothesis is that we can increase that number significantly by matching learners online in teams of 2-3 and giving them a real project to build together. On top…

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Never forget homework again with your AI-powered assistant

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    100% Automated + Fully Hosted “Udemy Like” E Learning Site!

    2021 · warriorplus.com · its alternatives →

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    Spend less time searching, more time researching

    2021 · coursehub.app · its alternatives →

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    Learn on freeCodeCamp, together with your peers. 🔥

    2018 · bluedash.co · its alternatives →

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    Create, ship & improve courses together

    2019 · 360learning.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey! I’m JC. I’m 17 and part of Hack Club, a nonprofit where we help teenagers ship programming projects with their friends while growing technically. A while ago, I asked myself the question, “How exactly do programming languages work behind the scenes?” It seemed really daunting until I went to a half hour workshop at a high school hackathon about writing a tree-walk interpreter and realized that getting started was actually super fun. This guide is designed in the vein of that - to get people, especially teenagers, started on learning how to build a programming language in a literal…

    2024 · easel.hackclub.com · its alternatives →

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    Cuddy▲78

    Find a course buddy and do online courses together

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Find a study buddy for your MOOCs and online courses

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    A free course about, you guessed it, building a course!

    2015 · a-course-about-building-online-courses.teachery.co · its alternatives →

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    Master Clojure through project-based courses, live workshops, and a thriving community of practitioners.

    Feb 2026 · clojure.stream · its alternatives →

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    Lexie▲102

    Built this because kids 10-15 can't prompt AI effectively. They'd type "make quiz plz" and get confused when ChatGPT asks for context. Lexie takes 46 steps of AI prompting, context explanation, and output formatting and makes it one step: point camera, get quiz. The photo constraint isn't just better UX, it's the only way to get usable output from that age group. This demographic gets the worst deal in edtech. Too advanced for baby apps, too young for adult tools. They get gamification theater instead of real learning tools. I stripped all that out. Photo your geology notes, get instant…

    Apr 2026 · lexielearn.com · its alternatives →

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