I solved my study problems by talking to a goose
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I used to study by rereading notes, and then I blanked in the exam hall.Did some research, and found that my experience isn’t isolated, and that passive review doesn’t force retrieval, so nothing sticks, and I knew I had to do something about it.That’s why I built Professor Goose. You pick a topic, explain it out loud to a goose, and he keeps probing until he understands you. Never gives you the answer, just keeps asking follow ups until a sound understanding is reached, which in turn makes you figure stuff out or realise you never understood your topic in the first place.Free to try, no account needed, upload your syllabus for exam board specific questions. Curious whether this approach resonates with others, it sure has for me.
HN · launched May 15, 2026 · 22 upvotes (top 24%) · 0 views
Niche: tutoring management and study apps · 59 launches, 1 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Education
- Agent / copilot
- B2C
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes Professor Goose is a conversational AI study assistant that prompts the user with Socratic questions using the Feynman technique. The product is fundamentally a wrapper around modern LLM APIs (OpenAI or Anthropic) with custom prompts, audio transcription/TTS, and standard web/mobile UI.
Discussion
10 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Rubber duck debugging (conceptual approach), Other Socratic tutoring tools
Concerns raised: Doesn't work on Firefox Android with overlapping UI elements, No inter-goose communication/collaboration features
Feature requests: Upload custom data/documents for context-aware questions, Persistent text-based input mode (not just voice)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 195 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #53 of 196 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 196 days after the earliest competitor.
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