Show HN: A free educational live stream platform for kids

  • I work at a school with a campus in Texas and due to COVID-19, we created an interactive live streaming platform to connect kids with the world's best teachers in a fun and safe way. All of our live streams are free and open to the public.

    We were previously using a combination of Streamyard + Twitch, but had to make our own for various reasons. I'll see if our CTO will give a debrief of the tech stack on this thread.

    If you're a scientist, engineer, or artist interested in streaming on the platform let me know! michael@dexterlearning.com

  • Congrats on the launch!

    However, if you plan to truly open this to the public, you should at the very least disclose what timezone your streams start at, or show schedules in the visitor's timezone. Under the most simplistic evaluation, the world has 24 of them!

  • The ultimate critic, my 11 year old daughter, just listened to the whole Shakespeare stream. That she peeled away from defeating Protea in Warframe speaks loudly of how much she enjoyed it. Great job!

  • Mute by default, please.

    One of the worst things a website can do is start blaring sound when someone is just casually looking.

  • I saw the domain and thought maybe Showtime had greenlit a Broadway adaption of their hit show. Alas.

    This looks even better though. Nice one!

  • Neat idea.

    Might want to try moving the 'hero' carousel at the top so that the captions are centred properly. Looks a bit jarring.

  • For some reason the web site doesn’t work on my iPhone at all. All the text is cut off and navigation is impossible.

  • The three shows listed on the home page all sound pretty interesting. Are the times localised?

  • Might want to fix the typo: "The username for their accunt is..."

  • Really great idea, but is it really neccessary to have this much third party connections embedded? Like facebook, google, stripe and more that I dont know. Especially when this is advertised as something for kids. I can't find any privacy policy too...