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📚 Coursify
Turn any learning goal into a structured AI-generated micro-course with videos, summaries, quizzes, and a clean course player.
🌟 Inspiration
Learning online is powerful, but it is also messy. Students often jump between YouTube videos, PDFs, notes, and random websites without a clear learning path.
We wanted to build something that feels like having a personal course designer. Instead of searching for scattered resources, users can simply say what they want to learn, and Coursify turns that goal into a structured mini-course.
Our inspiration came from the idea that learning should feel guided, focused, and easy to continue.
🚀 What it does
Coursify lets users create AI-generated micro-courses from a simple learning goal.
Users can:
✨ Enter a topic they want to learn
📄 Upload an optional PDF for extra context
🧠 Generate a structured course outline
✏️ Edit the outline before publishing
🎥 Get relevant YouTube videos for each lesson
📝 Read AI-generated lesson summaries
✅ Take short quizzes to check understanding
📚 Browse a public library of generated courses
Each course is built as a simple 3-unit, 9-lesson learning path, making it small enough to complete but structured enough to feel like a real course.
🛠️ How we built it
Coursify was built as a full-stack web app.
The frontend uses:
⚛️ React
⚡ Vite
🔷 TypeScript
🎨 A clean white, beige, brown, and burnt-orange UI system
The backend uses:
🟢 Node.js
🔥 Hono API routes
🧠 Agnes AI for outline generation, summaries, quizzes, and cover images
🎥 YouTube Data API for lesson video discovery
🗄️ Supabase for storing public courses and cover images
The user flow is:
- User enters a learning goal.
- Agnes generates a structured course outline.
- User edits the outline if needed.
- Coursify searches YouTube for suitable videos.
- Agnes creates summaries, takeaways, and quizzes.
- A course cover image is generated.
- The finished course is published to the library.
We also designed the course player to be focused and practical, with a left-side lesson timeline, central video and summary area, and right-side quiz panel.
😵 Challenges we ran into
One big challenge was making AI-generated learning content feel trustworthy.
Since we use YouTube metadata, we had to be careful not to pretend that the AI watched the full video. So every lesson clearly shows that the summary is based on YouTube metadata and source details.
Another challenge was keeping the course generation reliable. AI responses can sometimes be messy, so we used structured JSON outputs and validation to keep the course format consistent.
We also had to balance simplicity and usefulness. We did not want Coursify to feel like another overloaded AI dashboard. The goal was to make the app feel clean, readable, and course-focused.
🏆 Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud that Coursify feels like a real learning product, not just an AI demo.
Some things we are especially proud of:
🎯 A simple goal-to-course workflow
📚 A public course library
✏️ Editable AI-generated outlines
🎥 Automatic YouTube lesson matching
📝 Lesson summaries and quizzes
🎨 AI-generated course covers
🧭 A focused course player UI
💾 Progress saved locally for each course
Most importantly, we built Coursify around a real student problem: wanting to learn something properly without wasting time organizing resources manually.
🧠 What we learned
We learned that AI is most useful in education when it provides structure, not just answers.
Instead of only generating text, Coursify uses AI to plan, organize, explain, and assess learning. This made us think more deeply about how AI can support self-directed learners.
We also learned the importance of transparency. If content is generated from metadata, the app should clearly say that. Good AI products should not only be powerful, but also honest.
On the technical side, we learned how to connect multiple services together, including AI generation, YouTube search, image generation, and Supabase storage.
🔮 What's next for Coursify
Next, we want to make Coursify more personalized and powerful.
Future improvements include:
👤 User accounts and saved learning history
📈 Better progress tracking
🧾 Transcript-based summaries when available
📄 Stronger PDF-based course generation
🧠 Adaptive quizzes based on user mistakes
🤝 Collaborative course sharing
🏫 LMS integration for schools and educators
🌍 A larger public library of community-generated courses
Our long-term vision is for Coursify to become a lightweight AI learning platform where anyone can turn curiosity into a structured learning journey.
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