Hello HN,
I’m the solo developer behind ScrollMind. I built this because I was frustrated with the two extremes of learning AI:
Academic Textbooks: 50 pages of Greek notation before you write a single line of code.
Hype Twitter/YouTube: "Build an LLM in 5 minutes" tutorials that skip all the engineering fundamentals.
I wanted something in the middle: Engineering intuition.
What is it?
ScrollMind is an interactive guide to Neural Networks that works like a social media feed. Instead of 2-hour lectures, the content is broken down into bite-sized "posts"—diagrams, interactive quizzes, and short explainers.
The goal is to turn "doom-scrolling" muscle memory into learning time. You can finish a concept (like Embeddings or Backpropagation) in the 5 minutes you have between meetings.
What’s under the hood?
The Content: It covers the full "Intro to AI" stack: Vectors, Layers, Non-Linearity, Loss Functions, and Optimization.
The Approach: Visuals first, notation second. We visualize high-dimensional concepts so you understand what the math is doing before you memorize the formula.
The Stack: React/Vite frontend with Firebase for the backend. Content is structured as a DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) of micro-concepts rather than linear chapters.
The "Business Model"
The entire "Intro to AI" course (12 concepts, 100+ posts) is free. I plan to release advanced, paid courses later (e.g., "Building LLMs from Scratch"), but the foundational knowledge should be accessible to everyone.
I’d love your feedback on:
Does the "feed" format actually help you retain info, or is it too fragmented?
Are the visual explanations for concepts like "Vectors" and "Embeddings" intuitive enough?
Check it out here: [Link to your deployed app]
Thanks!