🚀 Vidyaa – Learning Made for the TikTok Generation
🌱 What Inspired Us
I’m a Grade 10 student, and I’ve been using Duolingo for over 4 years now. Without any tuition or extra prep, I consistently top my Spanish class, just by casually doing Duolingo every day.
That’s what inspired my dad and me:
"Why isn’t the rest of school this effortless and fun?"
We started brainstorming. What followed by days of research and reading on what makes Duolingo click. Chunking, Micro Learning, and Spaced repetitions. What if we took the same bite-sized, gamified learning model and applied it to school subjects, especially ones I and my classmates struggle with? That’s how Vidyaa was born.
It started as a way for me to dogfood my own learning, and has grown into a much larger vision.
🧠 What We Learned
- Gamified micro-learning works incredibly well, especially for people with short attention spans. (I am the proof.)
- Students don’t hate studying; they hate boring, one-size-fits-all methods.
- AI + education = powerful combo. It can personalize, adapt, and accelerate mastery.
- Building something for yourself first is the best way to make sure it works.
🛠️ How We Built It
We started with subjects I study in school, like English, Maths, Physics, etc for IGCSE Class 9 & 10. We broke down chapters into bite-sized lessons, and used AI to generate:
- Subjects, Sections and Units with bite-sized courses for learning
- Smart, spaced quizzes
- Active recall challenges
- Personalized learning journeys
We used:
- React Native for a sleek mobile-first UI
- Supabase and Node.js backend
- Perplexity & ChatGPT to generate curriculum-aligned content and auto-grade quiz responses
- A tutor marketplace for students needing 1:1 help from subject experts
Everything was tested and refined using my real class curriculum. I was the first user and critic.
⚔️ Challenges We Faced
- Making content engaging and academically rigorous at the same time
- Building adaptive quizzes that stay relevant as a student progresses
- Ensuring AI-generated content was accurate and curriculum-mapped
- Designing a product that works equally well for me, my peers, and makes parents happy
✨ What Makes Vidyaa Different
- Built by a student, for students – I know what works and what frustrates us
- Inspired by Duolingo, grounded in real classroom pain points
- AI-personalized learning, not just videos or PDF notes
- Dogfooded from Day 1 – every lesson is student-tested
- Combines fun, depth, and performance
Vidyaa isn’t just a project. It’s my way of reinventing how my generation learns, starting with myself.
We plan to launch Vidyaa with these subjects, and bring on more students who deserve better, smarter learning.
🏆 Why Vidyaa Stands Out
Vidyaa hits a sharp, urgent need, students want to learn better, faster, and in a way that fits how they actually live. We’ve combined a beautiful, mobile-first UI with creative AI use to generate, personalize, and adapt learning content at scale.
Built by a student and a parent, our story is deeply authentic and inspirational, we’re not guessing what students need, we’re living it. With strong market potential, monetization via coaching packages, and a scalable AI-first foundation, Vidyaa is not just a tool; it’s a future edtech unicorn in the making.
We are disrupting edtech with a decentralised, scalable, next-gen learning app, that actually caters to the students.
Built With
- javascript
- netlify
- nextjs
- openai
- perplexity
- react
- supabase
- tailwindcss

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