Homework Helper
Your Intelligent Study Companion
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I like that the product started from a real moment of frustration rather than a technology idea.
One distinction I keep thinking about with learning tools is whether they're optimizing for getting an answer or helping someone become the kind of person who can arrive at that answer themselves. Those can look similar on the surface but lead to very different products.
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Thanks for checking out my post! I think that products arising from pain points and not just ideas to make money have an real chance to help people and build a loyal base.
On your second point, I think that learning products designed to help the user arrive at the answer themselves have greater staying power and income potential than ones that just give an answer. I hope my app falls into former category.
I'm glad to have made something can help my nieces. Hopefully I can get more feedback and refine this app so I can help more people.
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I appreciate you taking the time to explain your thinking.
I'd be interested in continuing the conversation by email if you're open to it. What's the best email to reach you on?
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I think this is cool, and the site looks well polished
I asked for something vague and it gave me an interesting chemistry lesson, cool! I especially like that you are thinking of ways to not let the model just hand the user an answer outright, which bypasses our natural learning!
Some things I am curious about:
What is the underlying model used?
How do you plan to set this apart from any ol chatGPT-like experience? I think the teaching subject style outputs and select-able subjects is definitely a good start
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Hi there, thanks for using the app and liking what you see!
Yeah I agree with you, I think students learn better when they get a lesson tailored from their question rather than just handing them the answer and sending them along their way. I'm looking for staying power for my app and assisting students to understand the subject they're inquiring into appeals to me.
As to your questions:
I'm curently using GPT - 4o to power the app. I had it on 4.5. but ran into errors that forced my back to good ol' 4o.
What I currently have in my mind is to make the app more user-friendly to younger students like 1st graders. Improve the interface and things like that to appeal to the youngsters. Another idea is to gamify the expericnce - add badges, levels points, etc. to give the kids an enjoyable time while searching for an answer.
Thanks for your kind words and trying out my creation and telling me what you think! I truly appreciate it!
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