The idea is that you create the educational content once, then can export the course to multiple formats - as a video (of course!), but also as an interactive webpage, a blog post, or even a book, PDF, or PowerPoint! Basically a "create once, ship everywhere" concept.
Things will get more interesting as I incorporate stuff like spell check (for speech) and abstract syntax tree checking (for code), so you can quite literally check the validity of your software course in realtime as you build the course.
You can read more about the technical details and history on my Substack launch post:
https://codevideo.substack.com/p/launching-codevideo-after-t...
And here's the intro video about how to use the studio:
EDIT: added link to the mp4 created in the demo video:
https://coffee-app.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/codevideo...
From an intellectual and software standpoint this product has been (and still is) an absolute blast to build - and as always, I've learned a TON along the way. Very excited to get feedback from the Hacker community - even (maybe especially?) the classic skeptical feedback ;)
As an engineer, I always suck at monetization and things like that - I already am wondering if the whole token system is too complex and perhaps a different model would be better. Again, waiting for feedback from everyone. Until then, enjoy the studio!
I’ve been building something similar with CodeMic [1] and found that replaying courses *inside* the IDE makes a big difference letting users immediately play with the code instead of just watching a video makes learning way more interactive. Excited to see where you take this!
For a brief moment, I looked into a sort of VS Code plugin for CodeVideo but I realized it would be tough with things like mouse and animating typing directly in VS Code (unless I did a complete fork like the Cursor path). But I wasn't quite ready to take all of that on.
But yes, I think it's a huge latent space that hasn't been addressed anywhere in the market simply because you need to go half insane to take something on as complex as replayable state management for the IDE.
I do think that our approaches are a little different and time will prove which is more effective, or perhaps both in their own ways.
For example, CodeMic aims to replace books and blogs for discussions of large codebases and showing changes to code over time, but CodeVideo seems to enhance the experience of writing books and blogs (among other things) by ensuring correctness of the code for example. There's a lot you can do there with that which I never really thought about and is out of scope for CodeMic.
If the format is open, perhaps CodeMic and CodeVideo can even import from each other.
p.s. can't disagree about the insane part, but still a lot of fun ;)
This is huge and something I've pondered about how to do efficiently, because what if you could forward this essential context info to something like an LLM, or even LLM / AI aside, address immediately the classic "why did we do that here, in this way, at this time?" questions about a codebase.
I could definitely see some CodeVideo / CodeMic interoperability via some sort of export :D
Let's see what happens...