Minutelore is live. It is an AI-powered learning app for short attention spans, busy days, and the kind of curiosity that does not survive a forty-minute lecture.
The premise
You tell Minutelore what you want to learn — negotiation tactics, Roman Britain, the basics of Kubernetes, how Bauhaus changed product design. The app generates a structured course on the spot, broken into ten-minute video lessons with a calm AI tutor narrating the material. You watch one lesson on the bus. Another over coffee. By the end of the week you understand a thing you did not understand on Monday.
It is not a replacement for university. It is the answer to I keep meaning to learn that and never do.
Why we built this
We build small, specific apps. This one is the most personal of them. I read about thirty things a week and retain almost none of it because I am skim-reading on a phone between meetings. I wanted a learning app that respects how I actually work — short bursts, varied topics, real structure — instead of pretending I am going to sit down for a Coursera marathon at the weekend.
We also wanted to prove a smaller thesis: that AI-generated learning content, given the right structure, can be better than the average online course. Not better than the best lecturers in the world. Better than the median "intro to X" course you would find by Googling it.
How the courses are built
Three layers, all running in the background while you wait:
- A curriculum model that breaks the topic into a learning path with a sensible difficulty curve. Foundations first. Then the core. Then the edges that make you sound like you actually know the field.
- A lesson model that scripts each ten-minute video with a clear opening, three concrete points, and a recap.
- An AI tutor that delivers the lesson in the voice you chose. We shipped with three: friendly-conversational, structured-academic, and goal-oriented. Each one has a different teaching cadence. They are not interchangeable.
Every course ends with an official Minutelore certificate — uniquely identified, validation-tracked, and good for a LinkedIn profile or a Notion page where you keep a list of things you have actually learned this year.
Pricing
Free to try with a daily lesson cap. Pro removes the cap, unlocks all three AI tutors, and gives you certificates on completion. We considered an ads tier and decided against it — ads inside a learning experience are a tax on attention, and attention is the entire point of the product.
What we have learned in the soft launch
A few notes from the first three weeks of users:
- People learn weird things. The most-generated topic in week one was Italian Renaissance bookkeeping. The second was introductory falconry. We did not predict either.
- The ten-minute cap is the feature. Several testers asked for longer lessons. We declined. The constraint is what makes the app finishable.
- Streaks beat reminders. A small dot on the home screen for every consecutive day outperformed every push notification we tested.
A small request
If you generate a course and the structure feels off, hit the report button at the end of the lesson. Every report goes into the next round of curriculum-model improvements. The product gets better as more people use it strangely.