Hi Product Hunt. Maria here, one of the makers for Creatium Coach, which launches tomorrow!
I want to say something that has nothing to do with features.
I went to one of those liberal arts schools where discussing ancient philosophic texts in the middle of a party was a normal thing.
If you went to a school like that too, you know the routine.
Someone at a family dinner asks what you're going to do with that, then answers their own question with a joke about coffee shops. I heard it enough times that I started making the joke first, just to get ahead of it.
I spent a lot of that degree with Aristotle, and specifically with the Nicomachean Ethics. His argument, roughly, is that you don't get good at something by knowing about it. You get good at it by doing it, badly, over and over, with someone next to you who can tell you when you're doing it wrong.
Excellence isn't a fact you acquire. It's a habit you build.
Creatium
Hey Product Hunt! Deepak here, co-founder of Creatium, back with @maria_wall_ball and @huntingforunicorns.
Ten months ago you made Creatium Studio #2 Product of the Day. Since then it's been used by learning and development teams throughout the industry. But, what if you just want to learn skills as an individual?
Coaching has been known to be the best way to upskill, and it has been that way for centuries. However, great coaching has always carried a steep price tag. Legend has it King Philip II of Macedonia rebuilt an entire razed city to get Aristotle to coach his son, a kid who'd go on to take the known world. You now know him as Alexander the Great.
Centuries later ... coaching may not cost cities, but a good executive coach runs about $1K a month or so, which is why the people who'd benefit most from coaching mostly go without it.
.... until now.... 🥁
Meet Creatium Coach, a personal AI coach running a very old playbook, and yes, yours can literally be Aristotle.
First, choose your world. The Lyceum, where a digitally recreated Aristotle coaches the way he did in Athens, and doesn't go easy on you. Or Pacifica, where the sun is out and the tone is warmer.
Then, choose your goal. Your coach starts with questions, then builds the journey: simulations where you practice the actual skill, not trivia about the skill, plus 1-on-1 coaching to make it stick. Name the goal and it builds the reps, in a pedagogically sound sequence. Want to learn about AI? Personality profiles? Management best practices? How to improve as a parent? Get coached on most topics.
And it's tested. Our research team ran a randomized study on the pedagogy underneath Coach: learners who worked with the AI coach improved 28% more than learners who got the exact same instruction without it. For nerds like me, that's an effect size of g = 0.48, against the 0.37 average the meta-analyses report for in-person tutoring programs.
Coaching like this used to be locked inside palaces and corner offices. Now it's in your corner, $20/month, and Product Hunt gets 14 days free with code BEGREATPH
@maria_wall_ball, @huntingforunicorns. and I are in the comments all day. Tell us what you want to be great at, see if your coach pushes you out of mid-zone.
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@huntingforunicorns @drcreatium So excited for launch!! 4 more hours and 40 minute but who is counting?
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@maria_wall_ball I am armed with lots of red bull for today :)
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Thank you, @realanupreet, for the feedback!
As a kid, I loved video games that pulled you into a world, told a great story, and somehow taught you something along the way. So getting the chance to design a learning experience with that same sense of immersion was incredibly exciting.
I’m especially proud of the “Lyceum” world. Having Aristotle teach you concepts, respond conversationally in real time, and adapt to the context of your journey makes the experience feel genuinely new and alive.
This has been one of my favorite things to work on, and I’m really proud of the team, and how it’s come together. Excited to hear what you all think, learn from the feedback, and keep making it better. ✨
The detail I like is that it starts by asking you things instead of handing you a curriculum. Most tools decide what you need before they know anything about you, and you end up sitting through the parts you already knew. Starting from your actual goal and working backwards is a much better shape for this.
Congratulations on the launch! 🚀🎉 @drcreatium @huntingforunicorns @maria_wall_ball @ridhwikvinod
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I love the Lyceum! Super interesting product. I asked it to help me with a path from mid-management to upper management/exec level. That was really comprehensive. Love the feedback after too.
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@anisha_agarwalla thanks for the feedback! I tried it with my kids and wife too... and even my picky family loved it!
Never thought I'd live to see Aristotle revived, albeit in AI coach form! Online learning has quickly become a chaotic world of repetitive and monotonous PPTs and long PDFs that no one really reads. An AI coach like this, which actually helps learners practice and apply what they've learned, seems like just the thing to revolutionize the edtech space (even if you did have to go back to the Lyceum to do it!). Congrats @drcreatium @maria_wall_ball @huntingforunicorns @ridhwikvinod, and everyone else on the team!
Loved the Easy Going UI and Immersive Experience.