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chalk
learn anything, anywhere
23 followers
learn anything, anywhere
23 followers
chalk teaches by showing you. On your Mac, hold ⌘⌥ and ask about anything on your screen: chalk answers out loud, marks the real button, and walks you through one step at a time. Or say what you want to learn, and it draws you a board, plans a course of classes you do (not just read), or takes you through a whole project in stages. It writes up your lectures against your slides, too. Boards and courses work in any browser. Free to start.
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Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Seyi. My friend @segun0x and I built chalk.
I've studied across multiple continents, in different classrooms with different ways of teaching. Wherever I was, learning came down to the same thing: finding a way to make studying feel less overwhelming. So I started building websites for myself and my friends, each one made from our own study material. They really helped, but every new course meant building one again from the start, over and over, and that got stressful. So Segun and I built an engine that does it for anyone. That's chalk.
chalk comes in two parts:
Board: learning, in any browser (or in the app).
• Say what you want to learn and chalk draws you a board: what it is, the words you'll need, then a picture it walks you through, out loud.
• The pictures aren't drawings, they're worked out: a heart that beats, circuits you can switch, code that runs, chemical equations you can balance. Over 80 of them, from biology to music to code.
• Or it plans a course of classes you do, not just read.
• Bring your semester: drop in your slides and past papers, and the course is built from them, with the pages cited.
• Record a class and it writes it up against your slides, translated if it isn't in your language.
Spatial: help on your Mac, in whatever app you're in.
• Hold ⌘⌥ and ask about anything on your screen. chalk answers out loud, puts a mark on the real button, and waits while you do each step.
• Want to make something? It plans the project in stages, teaches you the first, then hands you the wheel.
Your first week is completely free, no card needed. When it ends, pick a plan to keep going, and everything you made stays yours. Board is $10 a month. Board + Spatial is $25 a month, or $20 a month if you pay yearly, and students and teachers get it for $18 (prove it with your school email).
chalk is open to everyone today at trychalk.tech. Board works in any browser. Spatial needs the Mac app, on an Apple silicon Mac (macOS 14 or later).
One honest note: the Mac app isn't notarized by Apple yet, so the first time you open it, macOS will ask you to allow it. It takes a minute, and trychalk.tech/download shows you exactly where to click.
We'd love your feedback: what would you learn first, and where did chalk get in your way?
@segun0x @theboygenius This is really good. Well done!
@segun0x @ledear Thank you so much Lydia!
@theboygenius @ledear Thank you Lydia!
Could I drop in a chapter from a book,and get a course out of it?
@thomas_wazza Yes! Upload the chapter (a PDF, Word doc, slides, or even photos of the pages) and tell chalk "make a course from this".
It asks you a couple of quick questions first, like how comfortable you are with the material and whether you're studying for an exam, catching up, or want to really understand it. Then it plans a course that follows the chapter: each class explained, drawn out and practised, so you end up with more than a summary.
If you'd rather go beyond the book, pick "starting point" instead, and chalk builds a fuller course on the subject that starts from your chapter.
You can also turn the same chapter into flashcards or a quiz. Would love to hear how it does with your book!
let's gooo