Meet Revyze, a French startup that is developing a mobile app for iOS and Android at the intersection of education and social. In many ways, Revyze looks just like TikTok. But it is focused specifically on educational content for teenagers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe talked with kids attending 30 or 35 different high schools,\u201d co-founder Florent Sciberras told me. \u201cWe asked them: \u2018What do you think about school and what\u2019s the best way to learn?\u2019 And they told us that nobody had ever asked them those questions.\u201d<\/p>\n
In hindsight, the answer was quite simple and obvious. They said that they would rather learn from their friends than their teachers. \u201cThey said \u2018because they talk like us and they are like us,\u2019\u201d Sciberras said.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s probably the reason why educational videos are so popular on YouTube and TikTok \u2014 the hashtag #LearnOnTikTok is massively popular for instance.<\/p>\n
But there is an issue with mainstream social platforms. They aren\u2019t designed specifically for education. If you watch an interesting video on TikTok, the social app might recommend something completely different when you skip to the next video. You end up jumping from math to dancing cat to physics to magic tricks\u2026<\/p>\n
Revyze aims to be the TikTok of education \u2014 a commmunity-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education. Essentially, Revyze wants to unbundle education videos from TikTok \u2014 a very large social platform \u2014 so that they get the attention they deserve.<\/p>\n
At first, the Revyze team focused on France\u2019s baccalaur\u00e9at, the exam that you have to pass at the end of high school. They built a quick version of the app, put together a Discord community to spread the word and shared a few videos on TikTok and Instagram.<\/p>\n
In just a few weeks, Revyze managed to attract 35,000 downloads. They reached the #2 spot in the top free apps of the App Store \u2014 right behind Doctolib.<\/p>\n
This summer, Revyze raised a $2 million pre-seed round (\u20ac2 million) from more than a hundred business angels, such as Nate Blecharczyk, Jean-Charles Samuelian, Charles Gorintin, Mathilde Collin, Lenny Rachitzky, Thomas France, Julia Bijaoui, Roxanne Varza, Arion (Jacques Attali\u2019s fund), Olivier Dacourt, Varsha Rao and others. firstminute Capital, Kima Ventures, AirAngels, Nomad Capital and Ligature VC also invested.<\/p>\n
Now, the company wants to turn this small experiment into a massive social\/education app. \u201cOur goal is to reach 500,000 users by the end of the year and to expand to the U.S. within 6 to 12 months,\u201d co-founder Guillaume Perrot told me.<\/p>\n
Building the community behind the app<\/h2>\n
So what does Revyze feel like? When you open the app, you get a TikTok-like feed of videos. These videos fill the entire screen and you can skip to the next video with a simple swiping gesture. There\u2019s a three-minute limit on video length.<\/p>\n
On the second tab, you can explore the video library more granularly. You can select a topic, such as math or literature, and even select a chapter in the syllabus. Revyze started with French high school students in their final year and is progressively expanding to other grades.<\/p>\n
And because we are talking about educational content, Revyze is paying close attention to the videos that are uploaded to the app. When a user submits a video, it isn\u2019t instantly live on the platform.<\/p>\n
\u201cVideos are validated by us and by the community,\u201d Perrot said. \u201cWe want to make sure that it\u2019s high-quality content, that it\u2019s accurate and that it isn\u2019t off-topic. Eventually, there will be a peer moderation system and after that we will add a bit of machine learning.\u201d<\/p>\n
What do you get when you post on Revyze? A warm fuzzy feeling. In more technical term, you amass reward points just like on Stack Overflow. These reward points are called EDU. You get 20 points when you post a video, and you get one point when someone thanks you for the video.<\/p>\n
Some teens post videos because explaining a concept is the best way to know for sure that they understand it perfectly well. Others want to climb the leaderboard.<\/p>\n
In the long-term, if web3 is more than just a fad, Revyze could also turn EDU into a currency to reward the community for their contributions. But that\u2019s not the next item on the roadmap.<\/p>\n
Up next, Revyze is going to expand to more countries and more educational systems. There are also a ton of opportunities when it comes to personalizing the app for each user.<\/p>\n
Revyze plans to algorithmically sort videos so that they are relevant to your level and your way of learning \u2014 an algorithm with a focus on learning outcomes instead of watch time. This way, users should waste less time skipping videos to they find relevant content.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe aren\u2019t a social network,\u201d Sciberras said. \u201cOur goal is that you should spend as little time as possible in the app to learn as much as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
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