2chalks — Independent product
Founder and full-stack developer · Deployed alpha
The starting point
Teaching materials often stay locked in books, files and individual lesson plans. My idea is to break that material into small reusable units that a teacher can arrange into an interactive lesson.
2chalks is an independent product for private teachers and online schools, with separate teacher and student experiences. Unlike the enterprise cases, I own the whole build.
Let teachers reuse materials and assemble interactive lessons.
What I did
- Designed the content workflow I designed a pipeline for importing source materials, dividing them into reusable activities, checking and enriching them, and storing them for future lessons. Teachers assemble those activities in a lesson builder, and students complete them in a separate interface.
- Designed teacher and student experiences My scope spans the teacher workspace, knowledge-base exploration, interactive lesson building, the student experience and classroom tools. Video classes and a shared whiteboard sit next to the content workflow instead of in a separate product.
- Built the architecture and software I work across Python services built with FastAPI, a frontend built with Next.js and React, relational data, vector search, object storage, queues and deployment. Artificial intelligence workflows cover ingestion, optical character recognition, processing, translation, verification and evaluation. I use artificial intelligence tools when writing code, then review and test the software.
- Developed and deployed the alpha I own user experience, the codebase, backend and frontend, infrastructure and ongoing development. Multilingual content is planned, so materials can reach more learners without rebuilding each lesson by hand.
The outcome
A deployed alpha, with ongoing development across the interface, application code, artificial intelligence workflows and infrastructure.
The product is at alpha stage. Some described capabilities are still planned or in development. Paying customers, retention and commercial demand have not yet been validated.