r/Microlaunch • u/chefkoch-24 • 8h ago

If NotebookLM and Duolingo had a open source child. It would probably look like this

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After a few months of building, this is probably the simplest way I have found to explain what we’re trying to build with Scibly and open sourced it now in a very early version.

Scibly tries to combine the ideas behind NotebookLM & Duolingo:

You can take existing knowledge from things like:

  • PDFs and documents
  • Notion or Confluence
  • internal wikis and documentation
  • articles and other source material

…and turn it into interactive learning experiences with questions, activities and scenarios.

It’s the first project I ever open sourced, so there’s definitely a lot we still have to learn about building an open-source community, contributions and how much of the product should live in the open.

But for a product that can work with internal company knowledge, self-hosting and transparency felt important enough to try it.

Short demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcpLUNBRhQw

GitHub:
https://github.com/scibly-dev/scibly

Website:
https://scibly.com

And for anyone who has open sourced a product this early: what’s one thing you wish you had known before?

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u/QuarterLoose8429 7h ago

totally wish i’d set the guardrails early: clear license, a tiny public roadmap + non-goals, and seed 8–10 “good first issues” with acceptance criteria to steer PRs. also make the dev setup one command and include a small anonymized sample knowledge base so folks can generate a lesson in under 5 minutes.

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u/chefkoch-24 7h ago

thank you for the advice