Learn without Zoom or YouTube

The weather is getting colder and you want to be productive while you chomp on your pumpkin bread this weekend. We’re diving into an app called Kinnu today, which might help you learn stuff (like AI from Google DeepMind’s Head of Product) better.

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We’re always on the lookout for learning tech that thinks outside of the box of your Zoom screen. Kinnu is one of the latest to try a new approach.

The app groups morsel-size lessons of topics into gamified, interconnected pathways (we’ll explain). The user starts by viewing the topics they want to learn on a simple map. Co-founder Christopher Kahler says this “helps you place information in a 3D space, which is an easier way for you to organize information in your mind.” “Portals” connect information between pathways so you don’t have to learn them twice. We have to say, it's pretty satisfying to see your knowledge grow across areas of interest.

Click into a pathway, and you jump into the learning engine, with topics broken down into atomic subunits. Also woven into Kinnu’s experience are features like audio learning and quizzing with spaced repetition. You can see all these pieces work together in the demo video.

This is the second time two of Kinnu’s founders, Kahler and Abraham Muller, have launched a company together. The two previously co-founded Qriously, a market research and polling company acquired by Brandwatch in 2019. Co-founder and CPO Hanna Celina (ex-Google, Deliveroo, FutureLearn) rounds out the founding team.

Kinnu has completed a pre-seed round with investment from Spark Capital, Google Ventures, and Jigsaw. Kahler says the team decided it was ready to share Kinnu with the Product Hunt community after receiving feedback from early users.

Try out the app and keep the feedback loop going. Pathways currently include topics like the Art of Persuasion, Intermittent Fasting, and Artificial Intelligence. The latter was made in conjunction with Mehdi Ghissassi, Head of Product at Google DeepMind.