My on again, off again life's work has been a foss dev stack for interactive tutoring systems. Something like a general purpose Math Academy, with mechanics to permit UGC and courses that are both adaptive (to the user's background and demonstrated skill) and inter-adaptive (to the userbase's expressed priorities).

http://github.com/patched-network/vue-skuilder, docs-in-progress at https://patched.network/skuilder

I am using this stack now to build an early literacy app targeting kids aged 3-5ish at https://letterspractice.com (also pre-release state, although the email waitlist works I think!). LLM assisted edtech has a lot of promise, but I'm pretty confident I can get the unit cost for teaching someone to read down to 5 USD or less.

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abdullahkhalids 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The docs seem to be highly targeted towards software engineers who want to build the system. There is scant information on how teachers would find this useful.

It's like inventing the refrigerator and all the brochure talk about is the internal engineering of the machine, rather than how keeping food cold is useful from the economic and culinary perspectives.

	▲	NiloCK an hour ago \| parent [-]
		This is a fair point, but I'll emphasize that this is developer documentation and there isn't really an existing product or service targeting consumers, teachers or institutions. My focus on that front is the LettersPractice app. I taught my own kids (6, 4) to read using early versions of the same software, and I'm pretty confident about the efficacy of the approach. As far as the broader project moving toward being a consumer facing applications, there are a few options. The existing platform-ui is a skeleton / concept sketch of one category. A web platform that allows users to create and subscribe to different courses, and then study sessions aggregate content from all subscribed courses. reddit for knowing stuff and having skills, rather than . Another broad category is in NoCode ITSaaS (interactive tutoring system as a service?) platform. EG, a specialized bolt.new for EdTech that uses agentic workflows to create courses that cover a given domain or specific input documents (eg, textbooks, curriculum documents).

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Ozzie_osman 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Tried the email list. Got an error.

Very interested in this sort of stuff.

	▲	NiloCK an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Whoops, sorry about that. I updated that submission right after writing this post, and re-published the front-end without having committed the changes. Should be working now. Really appreciate the interest.