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Here is what we’ve learned since our start at YC Hacks:

— Best learning comes from fast cycles “challenge-action-feedback”.

— Ideally, each learning cycle should be 30 seconds or less.

— Learning with yes-no questions (tinder-style) is much more powerful that one can think.

— Existing content is not ready for interactive content. Serious investment in content is necessary.

— Interactive learning requires depth: ideally, at least 10 examples for each rule.

— Mobile learning has high potential, especially for role-based training in the fields like sales, support, horeca, transportation.

HN Academy was a temporary name for our hackathon project. We will rename soon.

Would be nice to have a way to access the courses via desktop web browser w/o having to disguise my user agent
Crashes on Chrome on my iPhone 4S, works on Safari on 5C.
Thanks! Will fix soon.

We started with mobile web for the speed. But implementing all those animations in the mobile browser is much harder than in native apps.