Built a solution looking for a problem
Hey all,
I built the MVP for https://yippity.io after a brainstorming session and today, just before starting to write the code for the Notion integration I asked myself, what problem am I trying to solve?
The answer is: well... I don't know. I am bridging the gap between notes and question-based learning (That's what I tell myself) but after a discussion with some of my student friends they say OMG this is so cool but... they probably won't use it. I asked around Teachers Reddit and I was pretty much told off by building it: "Any respectable teacher makes their own quizzes".
So... I am in a tough spot. I look at it and it works so well, it generates great questions and answers that can be exported outside of the platform quite easily. I find it difficult to believe that nobody will find this useful. But... at the same time, the feedback I got from the people I thought I was building this for was discouraging.
I post here in look for some advice because truly, I don't know where to go next...
Thanks all
Hi, it is an interesting tool. I have tried it with some random paragraph from wiki pages.
I would like to share some thoughts on the technology happens in the back.
My guess is that you were running some NLP algorithms to parse the paragraph and use some rules to generate questions and answers based on the parsing result.
I think some chatbot developer/company/service may be more interested if you can provide a decent result by analyzing provide articles. They can use your result to train their bot, so the bot can answer some domain specific questions.
As for the direct user, I think you may also try to contact writers. They may use it to generate quiz for their book/articles and send prizes to their readers who can answer most of the quiz. This may also apply to people who write blogs. TBH, this is just a wild guess. Just to share with you as a brainstorm.