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Show HN: Instaclass – Make a Masterclass on Literally Anything (myinstaclass.com)
8 points by yungtriggz 14 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments
Hi all! We're Flynn, Moe, Bryn, and Porter, and we just launched Instaclass. Instaclass lets you make a masterclass on literally anything, using the best content that's already on the internet.

This is the culmination of months of work in the AI content consumption space that we started last year while working in gaming. A huge part of our work was dedicated to creating content with generative AI, but the biggest lesson we learned was how much content is already out there! Practically everything you could ever need or want, in any niche, has already been created by someone.

The trouble is finding these gems! When starting out with a new hobby, or exploring a new interest, we often don’t even know where to begin. What do you Google? Where do you look for content? How do you know what’s good or bad?

We originally set out to answer these questions with generative AI producing the content for you. However, this wasn’t great and it got pretty tiring to have AI summarising everything for you again and again.

With Instaclass we’ve flipped the script. AI does the searching for you, bringing everything you could possibly need to know on a topic into one place for you - in under a minute.

No more searching for hours, scrolling endlessly to try and figure out your next search as you wiggle your way deeper on a topic.

The team and I use Instaclass daily to learn about brewing better coffee, the Fallout universe and lore, the French Revolution, and cooking tips from Gordon Ramsay. We’ve joked that this would have been really helpful in the early days of each of our previous pivots - if you know us then you’d know that the one on how to build video games would have been worth its weight in gold…

Users of ours have done everything from learning how to give a sales pitch for an interview, to how to be nice to your boyfriend. It’s good for any and all deep searches, and takes the pain out of finding what you need.

Try it out and let me know what you think! We are limiting free credits at the moment so if you run out, join the waitlist and we’ll email you when more become available. Looking forward to seeing what you all make!




Couldn’t try an example without creating an account. I’d like to see how it works with a real example before creating an account. I don’t create accounts without seeing a concrete example.

The idea, if it works, is a good one.


Got it, thanks. Will get it working with anon


How does it differ from an AI search engine like perplexity? For simple topics like brewing coffee, a quick search on Perplexity would get me all the information I need. I don't need to make a Masterclass for it. For more advanced topics, I would subscribe to an existing Masterclass taught by experts. The use cases for your product are a bit unclear here.


Hey I just tried this out. Most of the content and features look "great" but the auto-generated crossword is a game changer. How come you don't mention this in the launch?


Looks great but I don't have a Google account, and don't want one. A lot of people on here are probably privacy conscious, and would be put off by the mandatory Google sign in.


Makes sense, thanks. Will work on a fix


How does this work with super technical topics? I'm account-o-phobic, but I'd be curious to know how this handles something like superconductivity.


looks great!




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