Academa – Long-form STEM lecture videos generated by LLMs
Hi HN, we are Sina Atalay and Abdullah Geduk, co-founders of Academa. We are both PhD students. We thought: what if lecture videos were written as code and compiled into video using computer graphics and TTS? Then LLMs could write them, and lectures could be fixed with code edits instead of video production. On correctness: LLMs may make mistakes. But these videos are code sitting in our repository, and we can maintain them. Every report and review becomes a fix in the source, and everyone who watches after that gets the corrected lecture. Every recorded lecture on the internet is stuck with…
Academa – Long-form STEM lecture videos generated by LLMs launched on August 30, 2026 with 30 votes, #681 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Academa generates technical lecture videos using LLMs and computer graphics, creating content on demand in approximately 25 minutes. Users can request videos on any STEM topic, watch hand-maintained lectures, or chat with an AI that understands the video content. Unlike traditional recorded lectures, these videos are stored as code, allowing errors to be corrected at the source so all viewers benefit from updates. The platform is designed for students and learners seeking on-demand technical education with continuously improving, maintainable content.
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From the sources
Explore hand-maintained technical lecture videos, chat alongside each video, or ask Academa to create a new lecture about any technical topic.
Ask for something technical. Get a lecture video made for you in ~25 minutes. Online STEM education is, in practice, a library of lecture videos. Think Khan Academy, Udemy, Coursera, MIT OpenCourseWare, YouTube, etc. Picture a professor teaching a class at a blackboard. The professor is performing a form of presentation: they write an equation while explaining it, circle a term, draw a plot, then point to what matters and continue. Record that presentation, and you have a lecture video. Put it on the internet, and you have the paradigm behind today’s online STEM education. Producing a good lecture video is really hard. But let's say you managed to do it. Two weeks later, you notice a…from academa.ai
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi HN, we are Sina Atalay and Abdullah Geduk, co-founders of Academa. We are both PhD students. We thought: what if lecture videos were written as code and compiled into video using computer graphics and TTS? Then LLMs could write them, and lectures could be fixed with code edits instead of video production. On…
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