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Hello PH, I've been thinking deeply about and tinkering with self-driven, creative learning for over a decade in both physical and digital spaces. I've always hit the road-block where immediate feedback which is a major requirement for such a learning experience is not scalable. AI has opened the doors here and created a golden opportunity to innovate in this area. So, you can tell I'm super...

Hello Hunters, I'm so excited to launch this. Stories are very dear to us and bringing Chapter 1 to life has been a labor of love. In chapter 1, of the learning experience you go from learning about some of the story species through bite-sized lessons, games and examples. At the end of it, you get to choose the species of your story and you begin writing in our companion app Papyr. We are...

Hello Hunters, I'm super excited to launch Papyr. An infinite, privacy friendly, offline-first, open-data workspace for creative writers. It is free to use. We'll be launching GPT powered premium features soon with focus on learning rather than generation. We are also launching our first learning experience "Story Seed", integrated with Papyr. Papyr and storyseed are great If you have...

This year, I decided to try something new and attended a generative workshop on writing prose poetry. It was a riot, I had a lot of fun and got a few of my poems published in some cool magazines. The submission process was totally unfun though. The entire process revolves around Word documents and copy pasting stuff all over. So, I decided to build a tool to automate it as much as possible. I...

We wrote a bit about the evolution of Breakroom WordSearch. From physical tables to paper and screenshots during COVID to an almost physical mobile game - with some generous sprinkling of Puthir's pedagogical tangents. https://puthir.in/content/posts/breakroom-wordsearch-the-evolution/

Hello Hunters and Makers, Over the past 4 years we ran a physical parallel school that engaged children in creative problem solving and self-directed learning. The lockdown took away our ability to engage children at that level. We created Breakroom WordSearch to bring one of our cherished activities to children everywhere. Searching for words and patterns is super engaging by itself. But...