A landing page or better a login-free demo mode would be great. Right now all I see is a sign up page, which does not convince me of anything.

The idea sounds interesting and attractive though.

It sounds interesting but what exactly does it do?

Good to see something like this, but you can solve some of the problems within youtube like autoplay, you can disable it. As for the recommendations on homepage you can clear youtube history and pause it in yours accounts activity center¹, for hiding video suggestions, personally I use theatre mode(so that i need to scroll) and extension to disable it. Similarly I hide the YouTube shorts using the extension.

Also, the landing page starts with a signup :)

1. The downside is that you also lose your YouTube Music history.

A few critiques.

1. Your base page doesn't describe what topics can or would be available. What are we trying to learn here? Languages? Science? How to be a better YouTuber? 2. You have a demo video. I haven't watched it. Why? Because I HATE having to watch videos if I could read a description instead. I read at least 10x faster than I can watch anything. That applies to learning as well, but some topics do work better in a visual medium. 3. You say its free but requiring me to sign up. To me that's not free. Maybe its not needing my money, but you're still needing my information. 4. Offer sign up/sign in with other identity providers.

TL;DR - Spend some time describing your product to someone who doesn't know need your product, not explaining it like I've tried other products and need shortcuts.

YouTube is a quasi-monopoly and one of the most important sources of educational content in our time. Kids use it, and teachers sometimes recommend it.

I am usually against regulation, but in this case I think having YouTube Shorts next to educational content is like a school kiosk selling crack cocaine next to hot dogs.

I refreshed the main page and recommended topics disappeared with message "Failed to load topics".

Logout button doesn't redirect anywhere and I cannot log back in - too many requests.

Also remember me button doesn't change state onClick.

I'm not signing in just to find out what your website does.

I tried signing up, it can't validate my email :) after I click on validation link, tried link and button...

You could be hosting the cure for cancer and I wouldn’t make yet another throwaway account just to see behind the curtain.

Stuck at level 4. "Everything except Mr. Potatohead is a vegetable" is the truth but not accepted. Apparently its some arbitrary definition of "vegetable"