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Christian Byza

Learn.xyz - Make learning a fun habit with the power of AI

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Make learning the fun habit it should be. Thanks to Lumi, your friendly octopus friend in charge of a powerful AI, you can now tickle any curiosity you may have and instantly generate a fun lesson, quiz included. How long will your streak be?

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Christian Byza
Hunter
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As the kids of teachers growing up in the European education system, both my co-founder and I were incredibly fortunate to experience widely accessible, free, quality education – and the impact it had on our lifes. It is probably to this, that we were able to find our way from Germany to the heart of Silicon Valley more than 10 years ago. So what is Learn.xyz? Think of us as “Duolingo and Wikipedia meets Gen AI”. But learning in our app is fun. Nurture your curiosities, fill your streak, and get inspired by what your friends are learning every day. Our app is like your personal study buddy, and we call her "Lumi". Today we released our app and are super excited to hear from you what you think about what we built! Please let us know in the comments below.
Arndt Voges
Maker
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Hi hunters! It’s Arndt, co-founder of Learn.xyz. Now that many of you have the app installed, please reach out with feedback to us: It’s our greatest pleasure to learn from our community. Email help@learn.xyz with comments and ideas and you’ll get me or Christian.
Sandro Stark
Love to quiz with the kids - especially when they ask questions where I don’t have an answer at hand immediately we can dive into a whole world of knowledge for both of us to learn. Love the super easy to use app!!
Christian Byza
Hunter
@sandrovan my 5yo is also a daily active 🙈. But I love that I am learning with him (rather than handing him the phone) - it's like reading a fun, interactive book with him. "Dad, what can we do with a Dragon Fruit", or "Dad, what is a Star-nosed mole"? - fun courses with a quiz for any of these. I cannot wait once we bring the parent/kids mode back into the product!
Heleana Grace
As someone who's super into video tutorials and ed content at Videodeck, I totally vibe with the power of accessible education. Love the mix of Duolingo, Wikipedia, and AI you've got going on with Learn.xyz! Just curious, have you thought about incorporating video learning modules? Lumi sounds like a fantastic study buddy!
Christian Byza
Hunter
@heleana thanks for the great feedback! It is something we think about but also intentionally decided against initially. Video is often not at your own pace. That's why we focus on text / slide content for now. But a mixture with more animation in slide format is probably one of the next steps! Let me know how you like it after using it a few days!
Ryan Hoover
Can't wait until someone builds a version that pumps knowledge into my brain, like in the matrix.
Piyush Narwani
Congrats on the launch and all the progress. I have a feeling this will be my go to app for bite sized learning.
Sankeerth Julapally
Congrats on launch @christianbyza Are there any gamification elements in the app to make learning more engaging and interactive?
Arndt Voges
Maker
@christianbyza @sankeerth_julapally I'll take that one. Yes, of course! Right now you can build a streak and collect points. And taking lessons is really fun already, you can share them with others, and you see when they learned something thanks to you. And a lot more coming! Download the app – looking forward to your feedback!
Tyler Swartz
Congrats on the official launch! I’ve been using the app for the past couple of weeks and really like it. It’s a fun way to learn
Rene
I wish learn.xyz existed when i was a kid! Love how fun the team has made learning about new (and sometimes random!) things. Congrats Christian, Arndt and team!
Arndt Voges
Maker
@followrene Thanks Rene! Random things are often the most fun to learn!
Christian Byza
Hunter
@followrene I cannot wait to release the kids mode soon. Good reminder that you see a key audience here.
Ba Thien Tran
Customizing education is probably the most powerful thing to push the next generation forward - amazing to see how this is pushing the frontier :)
Esther Yang
Maker
@ba_thien_tran heheh THANK YOU!!
Christian Byza
Hunter
@ba_thien_tran cannot agree more. Even people like Sam Altman are always talking about AI as a killer use case for education and learning. We think that we are exactly in that area and are just getting started.
Andy Smith
Such a fun and quick way to learn...anything! Learn.xyz meets me and my interest in obscure subjects where I am and gives me more than I know existed. Sure beats the heck out of doomscrolling!
Christian Byza
Hunter
@kabbenbock I need to write down the phrase "beats the heck out of doomscrolling!" - might try this in an ad! :)
Maria Hagsten
Congratulations on the launch. This is such an exciting app! Like you, my European roots (Denmark, to be specific) also made me a firm believer in free education and your mission touched my heart. I created a few Curiosities and they worked really well. Both visually and text-wise, you strike a great balance of playfulness that can appeal to both adults and kids, which isn't an easy balance to create! It was easy to get going and simple to use. A favorite moment of delight was the push notification prompt text "Better to ask for permissions than forgiveness" which, together with your cute avatar Lumi, made me smile. One piece of feedback: I created a Curiosity about Albrecht Dürer, my favorite artist, and while the text was great, the visuals were quite bad. They were all AI-generated images that imitated Renaissance art and looked janky. When I want to learn more about an artist, I want to see their work, not AI work. I could also imagine some users confusingly thinking that what they saw was the artist's work, which would be misinformation. Related question: What do you do to ensure that the information displayed is true? AI is notorious for hallucinating after all 😅
Arndt Voges
Maker
@maria_hagsten Thanks Maria! We generate all of the images just for your question. But that also means they are original, and don’t replicate the actual artwork exactly. Agreed that we need to find a better way to at least highlight that so it’s clear to our community in use cases like yours. On your question of hallucinations — in full transparency that does happen sometimes, especially on questions that don’t make much sense, but we strive to only use the most trusted sources possible instead of blindly using all the information out there. And when things don’t quite look right, we have an ace up our sleeves: You. The community can flag content and tell us what’s wrong and over time we get really good at preventing problems before they even happen.
Maria Hagsten
@arndt_voges Thank you for the thorough answer. I missed the "flag content" button the first time around, but see it now. Just flagged another Curiosity and giving feedback worked well.
Esus 🛡️
Wow! Awesome and a ton of app reviews to launch with, congrats on your launch. Curious who your ideal audience is? (School age?)
Arndt Voges
Maker
@esus These people! 👆 👇
savvyblunt
Although I wasn't able to find the app on my phone's Play Store I got to install it using the website link. first of all please let us get rid of the haptic feedback. What is the vibration for? The Android app is still very buggy. I saw visual bugs when the cards had a white filter on them as if they were not fully loaded. When closing the learn cards I saw the most bugs. but forgetting all of this. the concept is very nice. and I searched two topics and the results were acceptable but I wonder if the information can always be trusted or not. and from my experience, they were good as a pass time read or more targeted towards younger audiences but I believe on the Apple store it said for 17+ users .
Christian Byza
Hunter
@savvyblunt Thanks so much for the feedback! If you are open to it, @carmen_elena92 in our team would love to do a quick call with you. https://calendly.com/carmen-229/...
savvyblunt
@carmen_elena92 @christianbyza For sure, I'd love to share my opinion. I will play around with the app a bit more then.
Arndt Voges
Maker
@savvyblunt Arndt here as well, chiming in on the 17+ setting. That's what Apple suggested (I think this is because we allow people to enter their own topics) despite us filtering bad content and using it with our kids all the time. In short - didn't want to risk getting rejected at launch, so we went with the suggestion. We'll update that now that things are live.
Congrats on the launch @christianbyza ! This is such a cool concept! I love how Learn.xyz combines learning and fun using AI. But for me, the best part has been the ease of use and how it delivers the information in a simple and easy-to-understand manner. I'm curious to know, what kind of subjects does Learn.xyz cover? Are there specific categories or is it more open-ended? Keep up the great work! 👍 I just downloaded the app and I'm looking forward to seeing Learn.xyz grow!
Christian Byza
Hunter
@gusoliveira_ Thanks for the note! Basically we allow any content with the exaction of violent, racist etc. Just ask and you get a course. Or get inspired by what your friends are learning in the feed!
Alex Giang
Congrats on the launch! Amazing how fast you guys have launched this. Can't wait for the next update! The feed algorithm is amazing! Can I ask who designed it? I'd love to talk to your team!
Vic Onyeweke
Congratulations! Have followed this project right from when it used to be cryptohunt, the dedication of the team to build this AI learning tool making it easier for people to learn about different things is remarkable. Cheers for this milestone, keep building a product people actually use 🥳🥳
Tim Heicks
Congrats on the launch ... and seed round!!! Really love your product! Keep up the good work!
Annie T
Congrats on the launch! I just tested out the app and I'm loving how responsive the UI is. This is perfect for all the random questions I have during the day. Excited to see where this goes & how long I can keep the streak up!
Christian Byza
Hunter
@annie_tan please report back! And we will work on some features to get the streak back if you put some extra work in :)
Jeff Algera
Huge fan of this app, the refined user interface, fun learning experiences and sharing with my friends. What a great way to learn! Excellent work!