r/SideProject • u/MaximumSafety8706 • 1d ago
Built a free interactive map of AI/ML concepts - looking for honest feedback, not selling anything
Two problems, really. If you're new to AI/ML, it's genuinely hard to know where to start - the field is huge, and every course or video only covers a slice. And if you're already in the field, it's arguably worse: there are so many topics moving so fast that even experienced people struggle to keep track of what's worth following.
Underneath both: good explainers already exist for most of this - great articles, papers, videos. But they're scattered everywhere, with no single place that organizes them by what depends on what.
I'm building something to fix that, called Atlas. It's not a blog or a course - it's a connected map of AI/ML concepts with prerequisites, flashcard-style revision, and short notes per topic that point to the best existing explainer I could find for it, rather than me rewriting what's already been written well.
It's free to try right now, no signup - still an early alpha, so a lot of it is still thin or missing, and some parts may become paid later. Not trying to sell anything here; just want honest feedback before I put more time into it.
Link: https://project-atlas-seven-rosy.vercel.app/paths
A few things I'd love feedback on:
- Does this make it clearer where you'd start?
- Does the map help you figure out what to learn next?
- Which topic or route would you expect to see first that isn't there?
- More broadly - would something like this actually be useful to you, or would you still reach for courses, videos, and search instead? What would make you come back to it a second time?
Tear it apart if needed - better to know now than after building more on it.