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by blagie 851 days ago
This is enough detail that:

- If you understand it, it's a nice visualization but you don't learn anything new

- If you don't, you won't understand it.

Going one click in brings up a paywall, with no pricing. You need to give up your email to get a price.

This feel like a not-very-good business model. This would make a lot more sense as either:

- A fully-baked business model, competitive with other paid resources

- An open-source project on github.

To be a fully-baked business model, it would need:

- Enough teaser content to get people hooked and for people to be able to reshare content

- Things to do (e.g. writing Python code), a place to do it (e.g. an online repl, like most other similar systems), and ways to evaluate it for correctness.

- Clear marketing / branding copy (who did it? what's the privacy policy? what's it cost? etc.)

As an open-source thing, it could slot into a community of similar projects which fill those gaps. It has very nice interactives, but it takes a "tell" rather than a "do" approach, which is helpful in context, but isn't adequate for learning by itself.

1 comments

Thanks, this is a very helpful feedback.