ExplainMate: AI-powered learning, simplified.

I’m Kanak. I’m 15, in class 10 in Hazaribagh — a small city in Jharkhand — and I built ExplainMate because I kept getting stuck on questions at 11pm with nobody to ask.
Coaching centres here are expensive or far. And when you paste a question into ChatGPT you get a beautiful essay, when what you needed was the three-line working an examiner gives marks for. An Indian board exam isn’t a knowledge test, it’s a format.
So ExplainMate answers in that shape: the answer in plain words first, then the working, then an example from something you’ve actually seen. From any answer you can make a quiz, flashcards or a mind map, or open a physics simulation and drag the variables until the formula stops being a formula.
It’s been live since November 2025. 18,891 students have signed up, 96 have paid ₹149–₹499 a month out of their own or their parents’ money, and it runs on a mid-range Android phone on a weak connection — because that’s what my users have, including me.
Three things I’d genuinely like feedback on:
1. The first sixty seconds. 41% of people who sign up do exactly one thing and never come back. If you open it, tell me where you lost interest. I’d rather hear that than anything kind.
2. The answer format. Does it actually read better than a general chatbot, or am I fooling myself because I built it?
3. If you’re outside India — does exam-format-specific tutoring translate to your boards, or is this a very local problem?
Happy to answer anything about the build.