Show HN: Socratix, an AI Tutor Designed to Prove Mastery

Summary

Socratix is an AI tutoring project created in response to the experience of completing online courses and videos without being able to apply what was learned. A learner provides a learning objective, and the system generates a personalized curriculum as a directed acyclic graph of prerequisite concepts rather than a simple list of videos. Each concept includes theory and interactive practice; for technical subjects, the project says code can run directly in the browser. Instead of treating performance as a pass-or-fail result, Socratix analyzes mistakes to distinguish conceptual misunderstandings from ordinary errors. The system opens the next concept only after practice and diagnostics indicate that the learner knows the current concept well enough. The project is intended for more than programming, with mathematics, economics, and sciences among the stated domains. Its creator is also developing a live voice-based Viva, an oral-exam-style assessment requiring learners to justify their answers, but that feature is not yet live. The creator is seeking feedback particularly on curriculum generation and whether the practice-and-diagnostics loop feels meaningfully different from regular quizzes.