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ClassCentral seems to be taking this path. Our approach is different because we wanted to included learning that happens with media besides "courses". Perhaps a GoodReads-equivalent for LearningResources.

Books were a product of their time. Interactive media allows us to leverage techniques such as annotations, in-context model building and testing, building memorization using spaced repetition which should make an immense difference in learning effectiveness.

It's a shame that Google, who wanted to organize all of the world's information, still struggles if you want to find best learning resources (books, videos, podcasts, courses, Q&A forums, cheatsheets etc.) on a topic. It's good at answering specific questions but not so good at suggesting at learning path that makes the best use of amazing resources that exist on the Web.

This is the problem we have set out to solve. I'd love to see more participation from HN users: https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn-awesome

One problem would be that we don't have syncing that works ACROSS browsers from different vendors. That might be easy to implement technically, but getting competitors to coordinate is going to be a tough battle.

Then there would be little UX issues such as not knowing the name of the user for using in messaging within the apps. You'd need a "Complete your profile" form instead of a "Register" form. However, I do concede that even that would be an improvement over current systems.

This indeed seems to be the main issue (which LetsEncrypt didn't need to worry about). Zero cost would necessarily mean that early users will hoard all the valuable names, leading us back to square one.

Human-recognizable names are a scarce commodity. Zero price would create a market distortion.

Thanks for sharing both those things. We've added these to our Calculus topic here: https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn-awesome/blob/master/c...