Creating a ‘study with me’ community but struggling to summarize the idea. Tips?
Hi, I’m working on a community named MIRAI (which means “future” or “the world to come”).
The central idea is to connect, motivate, and inspire members (students, creators, etc.) through ‘study with me’ / ‘learn with me’ live chat and events, as they work to create an amazing future for themselves.
The primary platform will be Discord, with a YouTube channel for the occasional live stream and other content.
I’ve seen ‘study with me’ YouTube & Twitch streams, and there’s always a certain chill aesthetic, sometimes with rainy ambient sounds or lo-fi hip hop music, a very lively and friendly chat, and a real positive energy that inspires/motivates, but there’s never a full network and community around the idea. I don’t have any following, so I have to think long and hard about the type of person that seeks out or participates in this type of environment.
As you can tell, this is already a mouthful and I needed a few paragraphs to share the idea with you. Any tips on summarizing this or stripping down to it’s basic element? I had once read that a great idea is something you can explain in one sentence — I’m struggling.
OP here — Should I niche down to people looking to learn a language, instead of just general studying / education, to start ?
Then at least I could provide some additional resources related to getting started in various languages, and then build off that momentum?
Language is kind of its own thing, I think, because it's easy to find people who are fully fluent, and probably best to learn from those people. There are various platforms that match language students with native speakers. Not that you can't add another one, but it's a special thing, I think.
For me, the main question about "study with me" is: Am I just looking for people studying anything, and I want to find one with right vibe (e.g., music or not, serious or not, strict about attendance or not)? Or am I looking for people who are actually at the same level as me in a particular subject, so we can help each other (or if makers, ask each other the specific questions that we have)? For former (studying anything) is much easier, I think. When it comes to actually helping each other, it matters what the specific text books is, and exactly how much each person knows -- it would easily become a tutoring session where the person who knows a lot is tutoring and the others are learning -- which is fine if the tutor likes helping people for free, but...
I know with indie hackers there are sometimes work groups where people get together to work together, even though they are working on completely different things. In that case I think they sometimes talk about the idea of helping each other, but again I imagine that mostly takes the form of the experts tutoring the less expert.