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.
Interactive > passive video, every time. Good to have Aristotle teach me. Congrats on shipping!
I love the idea of making coaching more accessible and combining it with simulations, videos and roleplays instead of just passive learning.
The ability to learn from coaches like Aristotle and actually practice the skill along the way makes this feel very different from any other learning tools out there.
How does the coach adapt to each person’s pace and learning style?
The roleplay angle is what hooks me, reading about a skill and doing it under pressure are completely different things. When i fumble a roleplay, does Coach correct me on the specific miss in the moment, or debrief at the end? That feedback loop feels like the whole game.
I've tried a bunch of coaching tools and they all hand you the same playbook. This is the first one that felt like it was paying attention - it picked up on how I work and adjusted instead of just telling me what worked for someone else. Genuinely excited to keep using it !
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Nailed the experience with the website! :)
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@busmark_w_nika Thanks, Nika! Appreciate your feedback as always :)
Having someone to actually talk things through with has always been the best way to learn anything, and also the most expensive. That is the part I find genuinely exciting here. Not that it is clever, but that the cost of having a coach at all has basically collapsed.
You bring it whatever you are stuck on and it meets you there. Your code, your business, the language you keep meaning to learn, the thing you have wanted to get better at for ten years and never had anyone to ask.
That is a real change. Coaching has always been something a small number of people got. Now it is something anyone can just open.
Online learning can be interesting at first, but it often becomes boring after a few minutes. With Creatium Coach, I’ve actually started enjoying learning again because it’s so interactive. The Coach asks questions, keeps you engaged, and lets you see how you’re doing along the way. It’s genuinely interesting and makes the whole learning experience feel much more engaging. Online learning has never felt this engaging to me!