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by utdiscant 5y ago
It has been a while since I checked out Open EdX, but my experience then was the getting it up and running was fairly complex, and that the platform from the instructor side was very heavy to work with. We have tried building a platform tha
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by utdiscant 5y ago
1. Good question. We do everything, but often there is some bottom-up demand from instructors. Either they will initially go for a self-service plan on their own, or they will push the learning technology department from the beginning to pu
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by utdiscant 5y ago
Discussion forums (regardless of technology) are generally super useful for async communication and learning. We have tried to take a lot of inspiration from this. I think NNTP is a good example of technology rarely being a barrier if there
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by utdiscant 5y ago
Thanks! We don't offer white-labeling of Peergrade. In reality, we don't really support it anymore since we are focusing fully on Eduflow now. Eduflow could potentially be white-labelled in the way you describe and includes almost
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by utdiscant 5y ago
Yes, that is definitely something we talk a lot about. On one hand, we are positioned in a way that is very broad, which means "not the best for anything specific". On the other hand, I (want to?) believe that there is a way to pr
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by utdiscant 5y ago
Interesting! All of those things make sense, and combining a bunch of incentives and gamification elements like this is probably the way to super-charge completion. On the contrary, I am a bit skeptical personally about the long-term effect
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by utdiscant 5y ago
Thank you! Great questions! 1. This is actually something we do a lot. Due to our history of being a peer review plugin, we have always been able to plug into an LMS through the LTI standard. When we built Eduflow we kept this option, so Ed
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by utdiscant 5y ago
Great questions and comments. I will try to comment on as much as possible. 1. I guess this is what we hope we can find a solution for with Eduflow. Pure self-led learning is not very motivating to most. Learning together with others is a g
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by utdiscant 5y ago
Thanks for this! Peer review is super tricky. It is something that can work well if things are set up right, and very poorly if not. Some of my learnings from Peergrade and Eduflow is that good peer review experiences come down to getting a
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by utdiscant 5y ago
Thanks for the question. Differentiating in the LMS category is definitely not easy - there are many impressive solutions. I think our biggest difference is the way learners are activated in their learning. The ability to run guided peer re
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Launch HN: Eduflow (YC S17) – Async Social Learning
58 points by utdiscant 5y ago|23 comments
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Announcing location-agnostic pay(wildbit.com)
3 points by utdiscant 5y ago|0 comments
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by utdiscant 5y ago
https://twitter.com/RipplePandaXRP/status/139611282045492429... has a copy of a deleted Reddit post about it.
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by utdiscant 5y ago
When building Eduflow.com we needed in-app and email notifications. We built notifly.io to solve it and released it as a SaaS.
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by utdiscant 5y ago
I just have a list of movies I want to watch. Then my wife can pick any movie from that list and it will be pre-approved.
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by utdiscant 6y ago
As a YC alumni, the money has been the least important part of the deal. Would do it again without the money.
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by utdiscant 6y ago
Love this comment - really insightful. We did YC ourselves, and I guess there are two points here where I think YC can help improve things further. 1) Regarding getting other YC companies as your customers, I don't think there is a rea
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by utdiscant 6y ago
We do this with Notifly.io
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by utdiscant 6y ago
We use many products with low price - that doesn't make me trust the products less. For me the reason to charge more is just that customers are willing to pay more than you think. When you double the price, it is likely that the people
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Building Startups in Higher Dimensions(utdiscant.com)
1 points by utdiscant 6y ago|0 comments
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by utdiscant 6y ago
This is basically the reason we are building Eduflow (www.eduflow.com), a learning management system for active learning. Some things can and should be learned by a series of videos, but if you want to learn a real skill deeply, then you ne
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by utdiscant 6y ago
I am a Front user, and I am happily paying for the features on top of the email protocol delivered by Front. I am on the other hand not willing to spend money on better encryption. So while this might seem like the important problem to solv
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by utdiscant 6y ago
Does that matter? As long as you collect data from EU residents, such as an email, then you have to comply. That is at least how I understood it, is that not the case?
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Content Doesn't Matter, Community Does(eduflow.com)
1 points by utdiscant 6y ago|0 comments
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Online Learning Is Broken – Here's How to Fix It(eduflow.com)
1 points by utdiscant 6y ago|0 comments
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by utdiscant 6y ago
The integration with your app just requires you to call our API when you want to send a notification. Is that what you are referring to?
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by utdiscant 6y ago
Thank you!
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by utdiscant 6y ago
Hey HN! While we were working on our other product Eduflow (YCS17), we needed a good solution for delivering notifications to our users, both on email and in-app. We could not find anything out there, so we ended up building our own solutio
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Show HN: Easy in-app and email notifications for your web app(notifly.io)
19 points by utdiscant 6y ago|5 comments
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by utdiscant 7y ago
What? I always book AirBnB. For personal travel and business travel. It is always cheaper - like 100% of the time. And I get an entire apartment instead of a scrappy small hotel room.

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