Sitting in lectures running my own product for 6+ hours a week is the best way to see how it performs in the real world. It's so hard not opening Claude Code and fixing little bugs as they pop up in class though... #BuildInPublic #EdTech

Surveyed 100 college students about how they take notes in lectures. The ones using AI tools reported the same problem as the ones using pen and paper: they still can't keep up and pay attention at the same time. Nothing has addressed that core issue. #BuildInPublic #EdTech

Spent 13 years in tech implementing software for teams. Now I'm back in school and can't keep up with my own notes. So I'm building @PopScribeAI — real-time lecture notes that help you stay present in class instead of writing everything down. Following the build here. #BuildInPublic #EdTech

Professors ask great questions during lectures. Most of the room goes quiet. I built a feature that catches those questions and surfaces context live so you can actually engage with the answer, not just hope someone else raises their hand. #BuildInPublic #EdTech

The hardest part of building an AI note-taker isn't the AI. It's teaching it judgment. Most models can transcribe a lecture and put structure around it. Getting it to decide what matters, what connects, and what to leave out in real time? That's the real engineering. #BuildInPublic #EdTech

Found an app today that converts PDFs to quiz questions for $19/mo. That's it. Just quiz gen. The bar for EdTech pricing is apparently way higher than I thought. #BuildInPublic #EdTech

This week I spent more time reading cognitive science papers than writing code. Building good AI notes means understanding how people actually learn. The tech is the easy part. #BuildInPublic #EdTech

A classmate shared their AI-generated lecture notes in our class Discord. 14 pages with the professor's opinions about Elon Musk taking up the same space as the actual lecture material. The current state of AI note-taking sucks for students. #BuildInPublic #EdTech

My AI coding assistant failed (on a simple package method naming issue), apologized, gave up and quit on me mid-session. In 10+ years of managing teams I've never had a human just give up like that. Poor thing. #AICoding #Gemini #BuildInPublic

Built @PopScribeAI's landing page this week. First time the product has a public home. #BuildInPublic

PopScribe now has a home. AI-powered lecture notes, built for learners, by a learner. Join the waitlist: popscribe.ai #BuildInPublic #EdTech

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Real-time AI note-taking for college lectures. Get instant insights, chat with your notes, and generate flashcards. Bring your own API key.

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Taking good notes means you stop paying attention. Paying attention means you stop taking notes. That's not a productivity problem. That's a design flaw in how we teach 20 million college students. #BuildInPublic #EdTech

I'm studying AI at Laney College. Last time I was in a classroom, they were still using chalkboards. And I still can't write fast enough to keep up with what the professor is saying. So I started building something to fix it. More soon. #BuildInPublic #EdTech