Scrimba
Helping 2M+ devs grow their skills and careers
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Helping 2M+ devs grow their skills and careers
4.9•78 reviews•3K followers
Whether you're just starting out or levelling up your coding skills, we're here to help you shine. What will you build?
This is the 7th launch from Scrimba. View more
Scrimba Explain
Launched this week
Scrimba Explain generates a narrated video tutorial about almost anything you ask, instantly.
You can upload files, add links, paste code, or just write what you’re trying to understand. It's MUCH faster than any of the video generation models, as we utilise our DOM-based playback technology.
The video explainer can include images, code walkthroughs, animations, diagrams, and other visual aids, plus voiceover, captions and cursor so it feels more like YouTube than traditional chatbot UX.
Free
Launch Team / Built With
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Hello! 😁
I'm Per, CEO and co-founder of Scrimba, a learning platform for 2+ million devs which I've been running for 10 years.
"Explain" is our attempt at creating the perfect AI tutor. The core idea is:
As fast as a chatbot.
As engaging as a video.
You type a question and within 2-3 seconds to get a video-like response, with animations, diagrams, images, code, and more. Narrated by a pleasant voice.
It's currently free for everyone during the beta phase 🤑 Our goal is to keep costs as low as humanly possible so that we can continue to offer a generous free plan for students.
Our users have already created over 20,000 explainers during the beta phase. It resonates really well with the type of people who prefer YouTube tutorials over technical articles.
You can also bring "Explain" to the tools you use day-to-day
ChatGPT Plugin
MCP support for coding agents like Codex, Claude, Cursor etc
Chrome Extension
GitHub: Video Explainers of your Pull Requests
The latter has been a godsend for us internally as we're drowning in PR's these days 😂 Getting a quick video makes it a lot easier for our team to review each others' code.
Looking forward to hear what you think! And please shout out if you have a feature request. I promise we'll ship it within a week!
Here's a few examples:
How a Circle Becomes Music: https://scrimba.com/explain/guide0csjdqa3n
Meta explainer about Explain: https://scrimba.com/explain/guide0ien1j3b1
Understanding CORS (playlist): https://scrimba.com/explain/guide0n4r04ilh
@perborgen, is this Apache 2.0 liscenced
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@oluwapelumi_ojutawo The Scrimba platform itself is not open-source, but the underlying technology we've built Scrimba in is fully open. It's a programming language our CTO has created (Imba.io). As for the Explainer you've generated yourself: you are free to do whatever you want with those.
@perborgen Congratulations to the @Scrimba team on the new launch! I’m currently practicing full-stack development here, and the interactive teaching style has been incredible. Really excited to see what this new product brings to the table!
@perborgen Amazing new feature. This is the next level of learning with AI!
@perborgen the MCP support for Cursor and Claude is huge, qq does the agent stream structured JSON that Scrimba's frontend renders into the video canvas, or how does that integration pass context?
congrats for launch🙌
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@priya_kushwaha1 Good question! It's not JSON, but our own home-made format which we turn into "video". But the agent streams this to us yes. Any relevant context the agent deems necessary will be embedded on that format.
@perborgen WoW... Congratulations Scrimba Team 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻.
Explainer is an awesome tool that instantly generates content that one can watch short & digestible videos in an otherwise hard to understand archaic articles, repos or other form of contents.
This is definitely a must have tool for everyone to possess in order to extract maximum advantage out of it !!
I tried out the explain feature and was plesantly surprised.
The speed of generation and the coherance of the analogies and explanations hold up. I can also see the vision of how this could naturally integrate with pre-existing curated lessons.
I do think the explainations can be too short and high level, even when prompted for technical detail, but overall a solid product idea.
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@baguinaga Thanks for the feedback! Glad to hear you like it. A lot of people have requested longer explainers, so we've added the "Professor" teaching style (via the submit button dropdown) for this, as it goes more in-depth. You can also toggle "Playlist" on, so that you'll get a whole mini course on the subject.
Still hearing requests for even deeper content though, so we'll continue to push then envelope on this!
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@dhirajwohra Thank you! Are you wondering if our Chrome Extension works on websites which use tabs to show content as opposed to scroll? It'll depend on which technique the website uses to hide content. For most cases, we'll likely not to pick up the content. But that's definitely something we can work to fix if it's a common issue people are experiencing. I've envisioned our Chrome Extension to be used on complex articles for the most part, though perhaps there are other use-cases I haven't thought about.
That is super cool! TIL you can ask it questions in general, not just about arcane JS things!
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@michael_mynah Glad you find it useful Michael :) Yeah we see a lot of broader questions covering every imaginal topic (plumbing, sanitation... surprisingly lots of loo stuff haha) coming from our MCP integration with ChatGPT, though of course you can ask any question directly on Scrimba/explain too 🤓
Just tried Explain by asking "how the frontend sends data to the backend" and I was genuinely impressed by how quickly it turned the answer into a clear short video with diagrams and visuals!
What I really liked was that it asked me a question at the end to check whether I actually understood the explanation 🤩 as someone who creates programming education content, I really like that approach! It makes it feel much more like an AI tutor than simply another way of presenting an AI-generated answer.
Really interesting direction for learning technical concepts. Excited to see where you take this - well done, Scrimba team! Keep it up! 💪💪
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@developete Thank you, Pete! Really appreciate your support 🙌 We're planning on expanding that end-of-video quiz btw. Like giving real coding challenges you can solve inline in the player. Or a text answer for more nuanced questions.
ML ART
I've been giving this a spin! Lot's of fun, and the implementation is fast, intuitive and delightful. I've used it on my code base to understand it better, and a few things I've been curious about.
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@emilwallner Thanks, Emil! Glad to hear you're still in the camp of people who actually care about understanding their codebases 😜
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@etiennegarcia Thank you! And totally agree, I think a lot of people are feeling the text fatigue these days 😵💫
@perborgen Yeah absolutely! Especially with longer or more complex stuff, seeing and hearing it at the same time somehow gives my text-wall-fried brain cells something to work with again lol
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@etiennegarcia Thanks Etienne :) What topics have you already been using it to learn better? And let us know if there is something you think can be improved ✍️