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The general idea seems decent, and "just slightly above your skill level" is a real learning technique. One thing I'd be careful with is hints. In math you need
by danieldratschuk 2mo ago
The general idea seems decent, and "just slightly above your skill level" is a real learning technique. One thing I'd be careful with is hints. In math you need to struggle through a problem to really get it, and students tend to instantly look the hint up instead. Self-restraint doesn't work here, so I'd think about how the app gates them (couldn't tell how you handle this since I didn't sign up).
Some smaller notes on the landing page: it looks really good, but it feels very abstract, so it wasn't immediately clear to me what the product actually does. The hero demo would be the place that shows it, but it moves too fast to read. Also "Hope" sounds slightly depressing for a tutoring app, like "this is my last hope for better grades", haha. Good luck!
- pasha_k 2mo agoAppreciate the feedback! From our data, kids don't request for hints unless they need it but it definitely makes sense to have some form of a gate. As for the website, that's an open problem. Was there a specific part that didn't make sense or was too ambiguous?
- danieldratschuk 2mo agoTook another look to be specific. I think the information is actually all on the page, but it's never said in a plain sentence. The headline gives the outcome ("A grade ahead in math") and the sections give the feeling ("Never boring. Never impossible.", "A quiet starting point"), so I had to piece together the actual workflow myself from the Sketch / Show work on paper / Ask Hope cards. Something like "Hope gives your kid a problem, they work it out on paper or the sketchpad, Hope reads the work and nudges" never appears anywhere, even though after reading the whole page I believe that's what it is. Also the hero replay moves too fast to actually read the exchange, and that demo is the one thing that would show what Hope does.
- davidest 2mo agoThanks for the feedback!!