Hello Product Hunters, I am excited to introduce Sutra to you. I’m Lorenz, one of the co-founders here. Sutra is an entirely new approach to online learning. Here’s the problem with online courses: 97% of them don’t get finished, there’s low engagement, and there’s no connection - no opportunity for participants to learn with and from each other. When my partner and I started taking online courses together we quickly realized that if we didn’t have each other, we would never complete the courses we started. Self paced courses are hard to complete because they’re basically like a digital book. You’re entirely on your own. There’s no opportunity to meaningfully connect with, learn from, and be supported by other participants. Sutra’s new Conversational Courses let you create rich, AI facilitated experiences that generate higher engagement, completion, and peer to peer exchange. And, it’s super easy to create a learning experience like this. Our Notion like editor lets your organize your content into sections divided by discussion prompts. To unlock the next section, a participant has to respond to the prompt. Our AI engine highlights the best responses, summarizes contributions, and finds connections between what people share. (Check out the interactive demo we posted to get the idea.) Participants automatically get notifications that engage them in meaningful conversation. It’s like having a professional facilitator support your course to maximize participation and completion. Sutra is super easy to set up and every participant in your learning experience makes it better. As participants share their understanding and experience, it improves the overall body of knowledge that your course covers. Our AI powered conversational engine makes sure the participants actually complete your experience, which in the long run also helps you make more money. This is a total game changer and we’re super excited to be launching here on Product Hunt. Thanks for your genuine feedback and support. With love, Lorenz

Sutra looks like a promising new tool for online education. Excited to see how it performs in real-world scenarios.  Congratulations team 🥳

Sutra looks so powerful—it gives a lot of flexibility to the creators to build their programs strategically—for course design itself, the operations and workflow, and the marketing and positioning. I like how the product empowers me via modular components to build my stack, the community, the funnel, and its rich source of design components to customize the content experience is a huge plus. Great work by the team, congratulations!

Sutra looks like a revolutionary step in online learning! Kudos to you, Lorenz, and your partner for addressing the engagement challenge head-on. The combination of self-paced learning with AI facilitation and peer interaction is genius! 🎉 I love the idea of using prompts to encourage discussion and the AI highlighting key contributions. This could really transform the way we think about course completion rates. Creating an interactive community around learning is critical, and Sutra seems like the perfect way to achieve that. I'm definitely looking forward to trying out the interactive demo and seeing how it works in practice. Can’t wait to see how this evolves on Product Hunt! Upvoted!

This is an interesting approach to take with courses. Any stats on comparison to the traditional way as yet? Congrats on the launch. Stellar use of AI!

This product is definitely needed, and I would use it myself. I have a suggestion: consider integrating quests and a question-answer feature. For example, if I create a course and a user has questions, my own AI agent could engage with them and answer their queries in my writing style. Additionally, the ability to add my existing course to the platform would be great. This would make Sutra a comprehensive solution for completing courses with friends (by sending learning challenges), offering a personalized AI assistant that addresses doubts in a natural way, and providing tailored reminders. Instead of generic prompts like "Hey, complete this lesson," it could say something like, "Let’s see how you can build an OTP system for your website." Think of it like Duolingo's notifications. Also, a weekly newsletter summarizing completed lessons with insights into the next chapter would be a valuable addition.

I really like Sutra's approach! Having worked as a coding teacher, and having bought myself so many courses, I know that students (and myself for short courses) are sometimes just skipping through the content and never really followed or finished them... So this sounds very cool honestly, and could really change the way people engage with online courses 🔥

Congrats on the launch, @lorenzsell! Sutra sounds like a revolutionary approach to online learning. The high dropout rates in existing courses are indeed a major issue, and your solution to integrate AI for enhanced engagement and peer connection is impressive. The Notion-like editor and the conversational prompts are innovative features that could really drive completion rates. I love the idea of transforming self-paced courses into dynamic experiences. Can't wait to try the interactive demo! This seems like a solid MVP for anyone looking to up their online course game. Wishing you all the best on your journey!

Hi Product Hunt family, I’m so excited to introduce Sutra here and to launch our new Conversational Courses features on Product Hunt. I come from 3 generations of educators and have been working in the learning and development space as an instructional designer for 20 years. I have my degree from the Harvard Ed School and am so proud to be a co-founder of this platform. The birth of Sutra and this new feature came from my own experience of signing up and sometimes paying big money for online courses and then never completing them. Not because the content wasn’t good, but because I felt alone and had no one to share my learnings with. And the latest stats on self paced courses is that 97% of them never get competed, my experience included. And yet, when we are learning with others and have a way to share ideas, application and integration of the content, it’s incredibly dynamic and makes the whole experience come alive. We now have communities and organizations all over the world shifting how they design their online learning programs to include our methodology. Today is our first launch here and we’re so excited for you to try it out and interact with us. Thank you so much for your support. I look forward to connecting and learning more from you!!!!

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Congrats on the launch, @lorenzsell! Sutra sounds like a revolutionary way to tackle the common challenges of online learning. The AI facilitation and peer interaction features are impressive and could change the game for course completion rates. Excited to see how this evolves! 🚀

Sutra looks promising. As a digital creator, this is one of things I fear. People buy courses that they do not complete. Kudos and all the best

Congratulations on your launch to Product Hunt. The word Conversational course speaks itself. Can't wait to see it in real action.

@Lorenz sell, Massive congratulations to you and your team. Your dedication and vision are incredible🎉

Create connections that last right! Congrats on the launch 🙌

Bringing the discussion portion of learning to the heart of online course is a cool take. Congrats Lorenz!

Hey! Peer-to-peer learning is really very helpful. Congratulations on the launch

Really excited to see Sutra hitting PH! The concept of AI-facilitated conversational courses is a total game changer for online learning. Engagement and completion rates have been such a struggle in e-learning, so this approach feels refreshing. Kudos to you, Lorenz and the team! Can't wait to explore the interactive demo!

The idea of AI-driven learning experiences is fascinating, but how does Sutra address potential biases in its AI engine?

Really like the concept of having an interactive course that needs efforts from the student. This should increase course completion by a lot, really interested in how this plays out. Kudos on the launch!