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Dev tools · July 10, 2020

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Learnawesome.org – Open-source learning map for humanity

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,…

Learnawesome.org – Open-source learning map for humanity launched on July 10, 2020 with 216 votes, #94 of 4,305 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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Learnawesome.org is an open-source platform designed to connect learners with appropriate educational resources across multiple formats, including videos, articles, podcasts, MOOCs, and interactive content. Built as a social network for lifelong learners, it addresses the limitations of existing resources like Wikipedia and Goodreads by curating diverse learning materials beyond books. The platform uses Rails and PostgreSQL to help match students with the right materials at the right time, drawing inspiration from concepts about personalized education.

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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…

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