Launching today
Wondering
Duolingo for learning anything
77 followers
Duolingo for learning anything
77 followers
Wondering is the most delightful way to break down complex topics into knowledge you can remember and apply. Tell it what you want to learn, and it creates a personalized path of short lessons with visuals, podcasts, and interactive exercises. It surfaces the most important ideas and lets you explore them in your own way, like a thoughtful tutor beside you.
Wondering
@hcwxd For someone who learns best by teaching others, how would you design a Wondering path that ends with me creating a tiny lesson or summary for a friend, not just consuming one?
Wondering
@swati_paliwal great question! You can actually use our chat to discussed everything you have learned, including how to explain it to a friend and apply what you learned. I hope this helps!
I liked it enough to actually sign up and try it, which is more than I did for most launches today. Two bits of honest feedback, since you asked.
The questionnaire is too long before the first taste. I wanted to see it work in about ten seconds and instead I was filling in a form. I'd cut it to one question, or skip it and infer from whatever I type first.
Then I ran a deliberate test. I told you I'm a product manager, gave you my goal and my plan — then asked for a course on travelling to Sanya, China. Completely unrelated to everything I'd just entered. I got a perfectly good course. Which is the moment I wondered what the questionnaire had bought me.
Angelica's reply to Nika says the path is tailored to current knowledge, experience and goals. I believe that's the intent, but I couldn't see it in my output. So either the profile does shape the course and you're not showing your work — "because you're a PM, we're starting here" would fix that in one line — or it shapes it less than the form implies, in which case you're asking for trust before you've earned any.
Which is it?
Wondering
@you_li525 Thank you for trying Wondering and your feedback. We are working on our onboarding length for sure.
We do use the onboarding answers but only when they are relevant to the course being created or if they can help answer a question better. Would love for you to try again with other course ideas!
Maybe try seeing how some of these courses will be personalized to you:
Ultralearning
Software Is Changing (Again)
Harness Engineering for RSI
Multiplayer Agents, Company Brain, and Bug-to-PR Loops
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
How "deep" can the knowledge for each topic be? Because Duolingo is specialised in many languages. But this is even more complex.
Wondering
@busmark_w_nika Hi Nika! Great question. Honestly, as deep as you want!
Unlike Duolingo, Wondering doesn’t rely on one fixed curriculum for each subject. When we create a course, we tailor the learning path to the learner’s current knowledge, experience, and goals.
We’ve also built a few tools to help learners keep going deeper:
Dive Deeper: Focus on a specific concept, explore a real-world example, or connect ideas across recent lessons. You can then turn that direction into a new lesson in your course.
AI tutor: Discuss an idea, ask for another explanation, or use “Check my understanding” to find gaps in your thinking.
Expert Mode: Take on harder challenges that test whether you can apply, connect, and reason with what you’ve learned, not just remember it.
We know that helping someone reach real mastery in any subject is an ambitious goal, and we still have a lot to build. We’re constantly improving Wondering so it can be the learning companion we want it to be.
Wondering
Hey everyone! We are so excited to be sharing Wondering with you.
You can create any course you'd like, or try some of the courses we recently created:
Learning How to Learn - how can we talk about learning without this classic :)
Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence - breakdown of Kimi K3's paper
Claude Code Operator Workflows - a compilation of Boris Cherny's (the creator himself) Claude Code workflows and tips
Google-Scale Systems Lessons - breakdown of Jeff Dean's (a living legend at Google) talk on building systems that scale
How to Succeed with a Startup - the classic Sam Altman talk for Startup School
Zeabur
Hey Cheng-Wei, congrats on the launch! We met at a Blue Bottle in SF last year, you pulled up Wondering on your phone and showed me the early build. I won't pretend I remember every detail a year on, but I remember walking out thinking it would work.
"Structure, not endless chat" is the line that stuck. Most things in this space optimize for getting you to an answer faster. Optimizing for what happens after the answer is a harder sell and a better product.
I am also launching my new product, Nuphos, here next week, so I'll be watching today closely 🤣
Congrats to you both!
Wondering
@yuaanlin thank you Yuanlin!
yeah Wondering has evolved a lot from the early prototype but our core design philosophy is still providing good scaffolding for learner while giving them option to explore on their own
look forward to your launch too!
Wondering
@hannesh Thank you! Love to hear it. What did you create a course on? :)
Wondering
@hannesh thank you for the kind words!