Goal: Build presence on Reddit, drive traffic to slateup.ai, post useful AI learning content that feels genuine and UGC. Posts written as Rahil (founder).
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Priority action: Post Ask HN: Did you ever learn something genuinely hard without any external deadline? (Post 36, in sub-page) — good for Tue morning ET. Drop 1-2 comments first from comment drafts in sub-page to warm up the account.
Submit URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/submit
Title:
Show HN: Slate – type a topic, get a full interactive course with AI classmates
URL: https://slateup.ai
Body (optional text):
So I've been building this for a few months and finally feel okay sharing it.
Slate lets you type any topic and get a full structured course — slides, quizzes, and AI classmates you can actually debate ideas with. The classmates are the part I care about most. They have different personalities and will push back on you, which forces actual understanding instead of passive reading.
We have ~73 people on the waitlist right now. Early days but the retention numbers are looking interesting.
Happy to answer questions about how the AI classmate system works or the course generation pipeline.
Submit URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/submit
Title:
Ask HN: What actually made something click for you when learning a hard concept?