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Show HN: Watch Stanford CS Lectures Together
- ___karim 8y agoUse invite code: LY9114
- ukulele 8y agoI like that you're building something in this vein, but the benefit is not immediately clear to me. Has it been your experience that talking with others during a lecture is helpful?
- ___karim 8y agoIt is. Going deeper into particular topics or having folks share additional resources has been incredibly valuable. The lectures serve as conversation-food and not the 'core' of the experience here. That's the premise of the experiment.
- mikepurvis 8y agoThis would be kind of like watching someone play a videogame on Twitch— indeed, you could just about implement this as a Twitch channel where people turn up and watch a taped lecture together.
- fjsolwmv 8y agoTwitch has this for Bob Ross painting shows https://m.twitch.tv/bobross/profile https://m.twitch.tv/bobross/profile
- pritambaral 8y agoYeah, with IRL courses, it's much better discussing after the lecture than during one.
- ybrah 8y agoI would love something like this integrated into VRChat
- mwambua 8y agoThis is cool! I think it's always useful to see how other people react to the stuff you learn. Do you plan to loop lectures perpetually?
- beeks10 8y agoI think this is great. Reminds me of Twitch.tv, except for academia. Good work!
- pasabagi 8y agoI'd love this - except, where's the CS? I just see a lot of business/startup stuff, which I'm not interested in.
- Bluestrike2 8y agoJudging by the description, it looks like it alternates between CS and startup lectures.
- jnellis 8y agoI don't see a single one in the schedule.
- softwareqrafter 8y agoMost lectures are actually all CS classes organized by YC
- kencausey 8y agoI'm simply judging from the titles but I also don't see anything that directly relates to CS. Could you mention a couple of titles that you think relate to CS?
- Bluestrike2 8y agoThe schedule looks to be only for a single day, none of which are CS related. However, the homepage does state: > Watch & discuss pre-recorded Startup & CS lectures from Stanford together, in real-time. Schedules are updated every Monday and Thursday, so I'm guessing there will be CS lectures listed in the future given the description.
- maximp 8y agoGreat idea, and love how you've integrated advertising. I love that there's a schedule - following the paradox of choice, I hate choosing, and you have a good selection of videos.
- gingerbread-man 8y agoVoting on the schedule might be a good idea, especially if voting power was weighted based on how much each user has engaged.
- tomsmeding 8y agoBrings in a whole can of worms: how do you measure engagement? Is it gameable? What happens if someone games the system and gets by far the largest weight in the system?
- rambossa 8y agoReceived an early look at this through my subscription to Fairpixel's free & open-source logos newsletter: http://logodust.com/ http://logodust.com/ ... Awesome company btw the email stated it was for viewing "how to start a startup" lectures, not CS
- charlysl 8y agoWhy restrict it to Stanford? Why not include MIT, Berkeley, etc? BTW these are not CS lectures (all this startup stuff is not CS, like say algorithms, os internals, database systems, ML theory, etc) EDIT: I like the idea very much, but not in its current form.
- eganist 8y agoThis is strictly a content issue. I wouldn't apply demerits to the concept based on the selection of content available. It should expand, but forced limitations on available content make sense -- it concentrates students into "rooms" while the site's traction is still light, allowing the desired levels of collaboration to come to fruition. Too much content while the site is small risks running only one or two students per room, which keeps the true purpose of the site from showing itself and may even defeat the concept before it has a chance to thrive.
- ___karim 8y agoIt's just restricted for now, but will gradually extend the content from a variety of universities.
- russellbeattie 8y agoIt's really not that hard to provide local times on the schedule page. I have no idea without doing a Google search what time it is in UTC. Also, is the current class title displayed somewhere?
- devmunchies 8y ago> It's really not that hard to provide local times on the schedule page yes, but it IS hard to remember every little thing when launching a new service. try giving feedback with a little better tone. its beta software.
- rubberroad 8y agoThis is very cool. Can I ask how you keep the video synced for all clients?
- oplav 8y agoIt looks like the page is embedding a YouTube video with a specified start time in an iframe, with that specified start time based on when the page was loaded.
- matte_black 8y agoWhat’s the end goal?
- superkarolis 8y agoAwesome concept, well implemented! Might use it.
- babl-yc 8y agoNice work! I almost entirely prefer pre-recorded classes to live ones, except for being able to meet classmates and study together. You can watch at your own discretion, change playback speed, etc. I think there is a big opportunity with ideas like this to make online lectures feel less isolated.
- ___karim 8y agoTotally agree! For those who want to join, you can do so with the code LY9114
- wpasc 8y agoAnyone else getting a 500 error?
- HiroshiSan 8y agoLove this! :D excited to see where it goes.
- ertand 8y agoGood job! Is there a way to engage with other students after the class? Would be nice to ask follow up questions.
- alexknowshtml 8y agoAny interest in selling/licensing a whitelabel version of this that I could load my own videos into/control access to?
- rhokstar 8y agoAs we're watching Sam Altman on Startups, a group of 4 or 5 people (including myself) have been doing collaborative note taking on Google Docs. Its fun to do! Maybe this is something the devs can bake into their platform as a feature...
- donkey-hotei 8y agoThis is awesome ! As a largely self-educated engineer I recall feeling (and still do) that most of what I was missing from taking online courses was the « lecture hall » feeling, having discussion immediately afterwards, &c. Nice work !
- Gracana 8y agoCan't scroll to the bottom of the schedule on chrome / Android. It only goes down to something about Dropbox (it's cut off.) Is this the wrong schedule entirely? Do the CS lectures come after the point where it stops scrolling?
- rapt 8y agoClick to unmute doesnt do anything on the ipad right now. Awesome work tho!
- bharadwajk 8y agoLooks really interesting. Could possible be something like facebook live or insta live where you could still have prerecorded stuff available through links as well and have live comments based on time stamps through the lecture videos.
- nyxtom 8y agoThis reminds me of twitch in some ways which I feel is a good thing. The use of a schedule is a nice add in to give the appearance of a channel or live stream yet with something to look forward to or schedule appropriately.
- e12e 8y agoI think you just made me realize the value a lot of people get from twitch (and even YouTube, to a certain extent). Which, as a bit of a text fascist, I've had trouble grasping / not really been interested in. From the love (young) people have for live media/streams - and research into the negative effect of recorded vs live, in person lectures - it seems obvious that "twitch for lectures" will be huge. Probably not something I'll like any more than unscripted TV series, but probably still huge. Then again, I do seem to relate to chatting on irc while watching regular scheduled TV (like a buffy episode). So I do see social/group-interactive viewing as something that'll be great. Even see this working for stuff like video courses in 3d/game design, development - like an art class. The video is the lecturer, and you can see what 3d models/apps/.. your fellow students create (and how). And maybe even copy/"fork" in real-time.
- kipdotcom 8y agoNice. A quick suggestion: would you allow users to select there time zones and then show the schedule based on a user's timezone?
- kamalkishor1991 8y agoI also created something similar. People were really interested at first. But we learned after sometime that people loose interest when learning with strangers. We could not retain people after a week of sign up. Although this is bit different so might work. Good luck to people who created this.
- e12e 8y agoWouldn't part of the point be to introduce people, so they're not strangers anymore, after a while? Encourage chat/discussion in scheduled breaks?
- baby 8y agoI love it! I've been watching some, but still haven't received an invitation and thus cannot take part in the chatroom :(
- spekulatius2410 8y agoNice work! :)
- afarrell 8y agoThis is great! Can you do this for youtube videos so that I can use this for conference talks? (Or so that I can watch videos with my brother back in the US)