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Scrimba Explain - Instant Video Tutorials About Anything (Beta)

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Hi all, we’ve got a new learning experience in beta called Scrimba Explain. Pretty stoked about this one tbh!

It lets you create a narrated video tutorial about almost anything. You can upload files, add links, paste code, or describe a topic you’re trying to understand. It's MUCH faster than any of the video generation models, as we naturally use DOM-based videos (like scrims) as opposed to pixel-based.

The explanation can include images, code walkthroughs, animations, diagrams, and other visual aids, so it feels more like a real tutorial than a text answer.

You can share the tutorial via a link or on-platform with others, and see your views, likes, and follower count on Scrimba go up and to the right if people enjoy your creation! 🚀

We’re still early, so I’d love feedback from the Product Hunt community. What would you use this for? What would make it more useful? What's bad?

Try it here:

PS: it's also possible to use as a ChatGPT App. Just tell it to " this code for me".

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the DOM-based approach makes a lot of sense for speed, that's the actual bottleneck with pixel-based video gen. curious what happens when the topic isn't code though, if I describe something more open-ended or factual (not a code snippet or a doc you can parse), how do you keep the explanation from confidently narrating something wrong? is there any fact-grounding step for non-code topics, or is it strongest specifically when there's a file/link/code input to anchor it to?

 Good question! We do web search under the hood to ground the responses, at least when the LLM deems it necessary. However, we're not surfacing links to the sources in the Explainer yet. Though it's in our roadmap.

 source links being on the roadmap is the right call - even just knowing it grounded with search would make me trust the non-code explainers a lot more than a bare narration. will keep an eye on it.

This is a cool idea. I think video explanations are much easier to follow than long text, especially for programming topics. Great idea!

Love this - you guys are always cooking up something fantastic!