For self-taught students

Raise your hand in the world's best lectures.

A hands-free teaching assistant for YouTube university courses. Pause a Stanford or MIT lecture, ask out loud, and hear a short answer that knows exactly where you are.

✋ Coming soon on the Chrome Web Store Free, no account needed, and your webcam stays on your device.
"Wait, what's DPO again?"
Teaching assistant

DPO is a simpler alternative to RLHF — but you haven't reached it yet. The professor derives it later in this same lecture, around 1:32:43, right after PPO.

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How it works

Raise your hand

A small wave to your webcam pauses the video and starts listening. A keyboard shortcut does the same, if you prefer.

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Ask out loud

Say your question the way you would in class. It works in English and Portuguese, and understands messy, real speech.

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Hear the answer

A brief, spoken answer, grounded in this course and its own notation. Say "no" and the lecture plays on.

Why it's different

A tutor that knows the exact course you're watching.

It read the whole course

It knows the syllabus and the exact point where you paused. Answers point you to the right lecture and timestamp, in the course's own terms.

It won't spoil what's next

Ask about something the course covers later and it tells you where it's coming instead of getting ahead of the professor. Learn in order.

Hands-free, out loud

Voice-first and spoken back, so you stay in the flow of the lecture. It's the closest thing to a teaching assistant sitting next to you.

The idea

Anyone can watch a Stanford or MIT course on YouTube. Almost no one has someone to ask.

Raise Your Hand is a small, free project to give self-learners everywhere something closer to being in the room: a hand to raise, a question to ask, and an answer that actually knows the course.

Ready to sit in the front row?

Free, and launching soon on the Chrome Web Store.

✋ Coming soon