Derek Lo

Py - Learn anything on your phone 📱 from Swift to Astrophysics 🚀

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Py is a skill-based education app that teaches topics like app development, building websites and data science with a focus on programming. Learn in-demand skills like app development and data science right on your phone!

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Will Tennien Murphy
Hey everyone! I'm Will, founder of Py. Py is a way to learn on your phone that focuses on interactivity and responsiveness. Py figures out what concepts you're weak in and asks you to review them. It keeps you engaged by tracking your progress, letting you earn points, and level up. We've been fortunate enough to build the content with professors, engineers, and research scientists from Google, Facebook, Yale, and NASA. Here's a highlight of features: - Run code, try different values and ace quizzes. - Awesome equation rendering - Lessons in a social feed - Tracks your progress We thought it would be fun to build a simple and useful app that can help you learn whatever skill you want to master. Hopefully Py will become the first thing you look at whenever you want to learn something :) We're super excited to be launching on Product Hunt and can't wait to hear everyone's feedback.
Jake Rockland
@will_tennien_murphy Really looking forward to trying this out! Just downloaded. :)
Derek Lo
@jakerockland Thanks Jake :) really appreciate it
Joris de Ruiter
Just downloaded. Looks great @will_tennien_murphy !
Jonathan Hursh
@will_tennien_murphy I want an app like this but to populate with our own content for the organization and partners. Any recommendations on apps that do this?
Derek Lo
@jonathanhursh Hey Jonathan thanks for the comment! We're thinking about creating a separate app for company onboarding, etc. but this is definitely still in the idea stage.
Saneesh Sukumaran
This is by far the best educational app on app store. Beautifully made and with a variety of content. Thank you for making this!
Derek Lo
@saneeshsukumar We really appreciate that! Thanks!
Parker Rex
@derek_t_lo @saneeshsukumar Great ux and ui :).
Derek Lo
@parkerrex really appreciate that :)
Graham Kaemmer
Gave this a try last week--pretty shocking amount of content on here. I found myself coming back to the Swift tutorial just to familiarize myself with the syntax, and I finished the course in a bunch of five minute chunks. I like the simplicity of it. Short cards, each with its own razor-sharp lesson. Easy to jump in for short burst of learning. Good job, guys!
Derek Lo
@graham_kaemmer So awesome to hear. Thanks a ton Graham! 😁
Andrew Mutavdzija
Can't wait to try this. Love Daybreak which, I believe, was made by @derek_t_lo ! We corresponded a bit back then. Glad to see you're doing well !
Derek Lo
@andym_dc Hey Andrew thanks a ton! Really appreciate the support :) Hope you're doing well too!!
Andrew Mutavdzija
@derek_t_lo Thanks - keep up the great work :)
Abhilash Jain
Looks beautiful, is there an android version planned.
Derek Lo
@findabhilash Thanks Abhilash! We are well underway with development of an Android version. You can submit your email to our email list so you'll be notified as soon as it's ready!
Maanas Bukkuri
It's not very easy to search for your product on the App Store. When I searched for Py or Py App, I couldn't find your app. I had to search for Thundr before finding it.
Derek Lo
@msbukkuri Hey Maanas yeah this is an issue we're aware of. Thanks for point it out though. We think that as we gain traction searching for 'Py' will show us as the top result for the query. Something similar probably happened to the app 'Yo' that came out a couple years ago.
Derek Lo
@msbukkuri Hey try searching for Py on the App Store now. It's the first result :)
Aleksandra
@derek_t_lo that's a good point. I was able to find the app by "PY learn" keywords only. could be different in different countries, I guess
Derek Lo
@aleks_muse yup, well thanks for sharing regardless!
Mert Celebi
Hey guys, really like the product! Could you tell more about how you guys generate content?
Derek Lo
@mert_celebi Thanks for the comment! So far we've created all of our content in-house and have been very lucky to collaborate with some really smart professors, research scientists and software engineers to make our content very engaging, accurate and overall top-notch. In the future, we plan to have a limited set of extremely high-quality courses.
Aleksandra
@derek_t_lo wow, this is impressive. you handpick all the content, right? How long have you been working on that?
Will Tennien Murphy
@aleks_muse @derek_t_lo Quite a while! We've been fortunate to have help from a lot of talented people. A big thank you to everyone we've collaborated with at MIT, Yale, Google, Facebook, and NASA.
Amrith
As a student, I'd say this is bang on 💯🙌🏼
Derek Lo
@ambonium Awesome, we're really glad you think so!
Pramjeet Ahlawat
looks great.. will defenetly upvote once available on play store.. ;)
Derek Lo
@_pramjeet Lol sounds good Pramjeet! Our Android version is on the way! :)
Brandon Foo
Py looks like an awesome way to learn new topics - congrats on the launch, team! 💌
Derek Lo
@foolywk Thanks so much for saying that Brandon. Means a lot :)
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