Show HN: Education startup with note-taking collaboration

http://www.indiegogo.com/jotpot

by vladaionescu • 14 years ago

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fudged71• 14 years ago

In university now, I've wanted this for a long time. It would be fantastic to have a group of friends in the same classes who each have assigned roles for capturing different parts of the lectures to help each other learn. Someone to draw the diagrams, someone to record the audio and set tags/timestamps with the notes, and others to transcribe and condense the lecture notes into notebooks, study guides, cheat sheets, and flash cards. I'm really curious if this platform can make a difference in education.

In higher education, collaboration of LaTeX writing can save a whole lot of time, which is why I was really excited when sharelatex.com came around.

vladaionescu2• 14 years ago

The team of colleagues use case sounds interesting.

We're quite at the beginning right now and we try to focus on very specific burning pains; but in the future some of these things could become part of the product - if there is significant demand for them.

rohamg• 14 years ago

Smart idea but some of the exiting note sharing platforms have been heading this way too. Interesting to see if an indiegogo funded startup can keep up.

mmacieq• 14 years ago

The idea is cool but the execution is even better. From what I saw the prototype itself is pretty awesome. Can't wait for a complete product.

ricksta• 14 years ago

Whats wrong with Google docs?

vladaionescu2• 14 years ago

Google Docs is really awesome, and I use it every day.

But the key difference is that JotPot is made especially for students - so it does things like automatically sharing the slides with everyone taking the same course and sorting your notes by subject.

biaanghel• 14 years ago

I find this interesting and really useful too!

cristinar• 14 years ago

Great idea! Hopefully you will succeed!

Show HN: Education startup with note-taking collaboration

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