Title: Hello HN,<p>Over the last 12 months, I have been building <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnawesome.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnawesome.org</a><p>This idea came from Danny Hillis&#x27; 2012 talk at OSCON, which itself was inspired from Neal Stepehenson&#x27;s _The Diamond Age : A Young Lady&#x27;s Illustrated Primer_<p>The dream is to build a tool that matches the right learning material to the right student at the right time. Wikipedia is great, but it doesn&#x27;t do a good job of leveraging the rich variety of learning resources that exist on the Web. Same applies to GoodReads - which is focused only on books, whereas these days we actually learn from videos, articles, MOOCs, tweetstorms, slack&#x2F;discord groups, podcasts, livestreams, newsletters, online conferences, apps &amp; games, interactive explorables and much more.<p>For now, I am building it as a social network for lifelong learners. It&#x27;s open-source, built with Rails + PostgreSQL, and complies with standards like Dublin Core&#x27;s LRMI extension of schema.org and ActivityPub for integration with Fediverse. A GraphQL API is also available if others want to build alternative clients.<p>I have made decent progress so far: Imported thousands of courses and book summaries, built a browser extension for quick lookup&#x2F;addition to the repository, a spaced-repetition based flashcard practice module. Users can even discover learning resources by recommendations ELSEWHERE (for eg: &quot;Show me books on History which are highly recommended by venture capitalists&quot;)<p>I originally started building this as something to help with my daughters&#x27; and my own learning. But it made sense to build this as a public good.<p>It would be great if you can give it a try, and share ideas on what would make it better.
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