On: Show HN: Madrassa – Code and Design Courses Reduced to 5sec GIFs

[jibly]

Just launched www.madrassa.co Where I try to tackle the 90% dropout rate that online courses experience, by reducing the 10,15,30+ hours of course material to 1,2,3 minutes total. Using the native language of the web (GIF) to teach Code & Design skills. What courses would you want to see on madrassa?

[dwild → jibly]

Really good idea. I'm not too sure about GIF, why not use a proper video format that will use less bandwidth. You could always use GIF as a failover.

[jibly → dwild]

Tnx! The point of GIF is to not need plugins, or pause videos etc. GIF is not super efficiently used in this beta version though. Need to improve that.

[anoncow → jibly]

audioless mp4 or what imgur calls .gifv could also be an option.

[jibly → anoncow]

good call. checking that out

[Matsui → jibly]

You should check out gfycat, first to do gifs as html5 video.

[sliekasbekelniu → jibly]

Hi, a little bug - you can press "Get Early Access" without entering e-mail address.

[jibly → sliekasbekelniu]

ah yes tnx. fixing it