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Dev tools · September 10, 2021

Explain

Open education with crowdsourced blackboard videos

Explain launched on September 10, 2021 with 117 votes, #332 of 2,941 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

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What it does

Besides from minimizing the effort it takes to teach, any blackboard explanation can be turned into a lightweight, fileless video with 5-200x less memory than traditional videos. Looking for product feedback - it's ready to use anytime.

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