Introducing Epsilearn
Over the past few months, Torin Keenan and I have been building an educational content aggregator together. Today, I’m excited to share it with everyone.
Intro
There are a near infinite amount of educational resources on the internet. Last summer, I wanted to learn how to make a videogame, so I googled it and found a ton of resources. So many resources, in fact, that I couldn’t pick one — I was facing a paradox of choice.
Which resources were easy enough to understand, but hard enough that I’d actually learn something? Which ones were short enough to fit into my schedule? Where could I find peer reviewed, reliable resources?
What Epsilearn does
What Yelp is to restaurants, Epsilearn is to educational resources.
It’s a strange analogy to make, but bear with me. If you want Indian food, Yelp will give you a list of Indian restaurants, while also providing you ratings, wait times, prices, and top menu picks.
Epsilearn does the same with educational resources. If you want to learn Physics, we’ll provide a list of resources, as well as information on how difficult that resource is, how long it takes to digest, what learning style it targets, as well as its quality rating.
Tell Epsilearn what you want to learn, how you want to learn it, how much time you have to learn it, and how much experience with the subject you have — then it’ll find you a resource that fits your needs perfectly.
How?
How does Epsilearn do this?
I don’t believe it’s practical to use a scraper or AI (unassisted) to sort educational resources. So, we plan on crowdsourcing it — our site will feature human curated resources. Our resources aren’t scraped, they’re submitted by human beings. Information about them (time, difficulty, style, etc.) are also given by people, via votes.
Users and content creators submit their favorite educational resources, and tell us how long they take/how difficult they are. Then, when other users come looking for resources, we serve them ones that fit their needs.
Much like Yelp crowdsources information on restaurants, we plan to crowdsource information on people’s favorite educational resources.
Content creators have a natural incentive to list their resources on our site — all we do is link to them, so all the advertising revenue/views stay with content creators, on their platform of choice. Epsilearn is just another way for them to get traffic.
More on Epsilearn
Looking long term, there’s a lot of stuff we’d like to do with Epsilearn. I’ve written a few more essays on that — here’s a list of them:
Try it out!
Go to epsilearn.co to give it a spin.
If you have a favorite educational resource you’d like to submit, you can do that here.
