Chris Messina

Oboe - Learning, for the curiously minded

Oboe is the world’s first generalized AI-powered learning platform. Oboe lets anyone instantly create educational courses to learn about any topic in a more personalized, efficient, and fun way than ever before.

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Christy Chen

Congrats on the launch! I think you’ve nailed something really important — only genuine curiosity drives real education, and Oboe seems designed to nurture exactly that.

Nir Zicherman

@christyfea I couldn't agree more. The way people learn is by being motivated. And the way to stay motivated is to satisfy our curiosity.

Tuba Ismail

Really impressed with the idea of Oboe! A generalized AI-powered learning platform sounds like a game-changer, making personalized courses instantly available for any topic is super powerful. Excited to see how learners and educators adopt this!

Nir Zicherman

@tuba_ismail1 Thanks so much for the kind words, Tuba. Would love for you to try it out and let us know what you think.

Ruxandra Mazilu

Love this idea! Congrats on the product, I bookmarked it to give it a test later.

Nir Zicherman

@ruxandra_mazilu Thanks, and let us know if you have any feedback!

Matthew Glossop

Nice one! I do like how the courses are separated out into different sections and styles (short vs long, audio vs text). Will you guys be introducing videos as well? Options to change the tone to suit what people are more receptive towards (funny vs casual vs formal)?

Personalizing education is a huge unlock. Excited to see where this goes!

Matthew Glossop

Also, would love video to be a lesson format, but totally recognize that would have high costs.

Nir Zicherman

@matthew_glossop Thanks, Matthew! Video is on the roadmap, and hopefully coming soon. As are more granular controls like tone. Both are great ideas that everyone on the team wants to build so we can use those features too :)

Matthew Glossop

@nirzicherman Great to hear!

Alba Hornero
Love the idea and the name! I’ll try it out, I need a structured learning process for once 😂
Nir Zicherman

@alba_hornero Let us know what you think!

Nabin Paudel, PhD

Great idea but can we edit the courses as the agent may not cover everything or we want to include additional info etc.

Nir Zicherman

@nabin_paudel_phd We've heard that feedback a bunch and are talking about internally. I definitely see the value in working with Oboe to refine your courses to exactly what you want.

Seth Monk

Very cool product, @chrismessina always finds the good ones!

Pavel Evteev
Hey Nir and the Team. First, congrats on the launch. This is indeed a great platform, and I really enjoy your mission. By the way, kudos for the video, which is both informative and dynamic; it tells the story and shows the concept in action. Great stuff. My question is about the personalization of the learning courses. Someone already asked about the content here in the comments section. But I’m even more interested in the form of the courses. I.e., will it be possible to choose the way the content is given to me? E.g., someone prefers reading from short cards, someone enjoys animated videos, someone captures information more efficiently while listening audiobooks… So, do you consider allowing users to choose the form that best suits their learning patterns? Thanks and good luck
Tom Daccord

Congrats! For educators, Obeo is great for quick, shareable, supplemental pathways to established curriculum materials. It provides great flexibility, especially for niche topics. That said, I'm surprised Obeo doesn't level-up text. I prompted it for a high school Bio micro-course on ATP, but the reading level was university undergraduate. Why is that? Also, I prompted Obeo for a 12-minute course on ATP and it didn't respect that request either. Since prompting is key to using this platform well, do you have suggestions to maximize Obeo's effectiveness and will you be refining it to better align with user wishes? Also, so you know, the podcast episode stopped after about 19 seconds and the remainder never played.

Tommen
Smart, innovate and cool. Sounds great 🙏