LearnAwesome.org: Why and how I created it
summary
LearnAwesome.org is an open catalog that collates ideas separately from media, linking multiple formats (book, video, audio) under one entry and offering learning roadmaps for crowded topics; it stores about 20,000 items across ~3,000 topics. Built first as a Ruby on Rails server app with ActivityPub experiments and later rewritten as a Svelte single‑page app loading JSONL catalogs in-browser, it works but relies on heavy manual curation and faces spam, taxonomy and automated classification challenges. ActivityPub experiment
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chapters (10)
- 0:00LearnAwesome.org intro
- 1:47Core features & curation
- 4:37Learning roadmaps & metadata
- 6:01Open source framework
- 8:09Comparison with platforms
- 9:12Tech evolution & architecture
- 11:19Knowledge hierarchy challenges
- 12:43Current data structure
- 14:32Open problems & automation
- 16:37Call for contributions
