Last Week with Hypandra: From One Session to Three
A week ago we ran our first Curiosity Builds session with a teacher and shipped CuriousFractions.com. This week, two more instructors sat down with us and we shipped two more.
Last Week with Hypandra: Building for the Room
A big focus of this week was engaging with people about our Curiosity Builds — getting them in front of family, teachers, and collaborators and seeing what happens.
Demanding Curiosity
We owe each other to work through these questions. That shared not-knowing is the starting point.
Curiosity Builds!
Your curiosity is the fuel. The tools are the engine. We teach you how to drive.
The Missing Pillar of AI Literacy (Part 2)
Building the 5th pillar into the OECD framework: a detailed proposal for Questioning AI.
The Missing Pillar of AI Literacy (Part 1)
The OECD's AI literacy framework outlines four pillars—but there's a glaring omission: knowing when not to use AI. We propose a fifth pillar: Questioning AI.
Lost Certainty: What a 30-Year-Old Movie Quote Taught Me About Truth
A simple movie quote becomes a meditation on certainty, AI reliability, and the nature of knowing itself.
Curious Vibe Coding with Hypandra
What nuance are most people missing when they prompt AI models to assist with coding tasks?
Beyond Benchmarks: The Curiosity Differentiator
As AI models converge on benchmark performance, the real differentiator isn't speed or accuracy—it's whether these tools can actually strengthen human curiosity.
How Do We Measure Success?
A conversation at Founders Live pushed me to articulate what success really means for Hypandra—and why revenue only tells part of the story.
AYC Challenge Winners: Daniel's Birthday Edition
Twenty-five players competed in our first custom challenge. Here are the winners—and why their questions deserve the spotlight.
Onboarding to Coding: Trial by Fire
I learned to build email notifications from scratch in an afternoon. Here's what happened when curiosity, determination, and the right tools came together.
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346 Questions in One Week: An 8th Grader & Hypandra
An 8th grader shares why he played Hypandra 346 times in one week and how it changed the way he thinks about questions.
Why We Updated Judging (and What It Improves)
Three sets of feedback become one. Hypandra now delivers sharper, shorter, more actionable feedback so every round of Are You Curiouser? is clear and helpful.
Listening to Curiosity: Why We're Bringing Are You Curiouser? to the Front
Everyone has been supportive of the Mission, but it's obvious it's when they play the game that it really clicks.
When Curiosity Gets Competitive
And then—of course—our CEO, founder, and only developer got the leaderboard ready for beta. His name appeared right above mine. Not by one or two points, either—a full six points ahead. Can’t even call it an A–.
The Current Gold Rush — and What We Might Lose
Curiosity is the engine that takes us from where we are to where we want to be. It helps us see the world around us and make it better. Well-tuned curiosity will help us better learn, adapt, lead, teach, and engage with the world.
Developing Interview Questions with Hypandra
I wanted to highlight some of the Hypandra Explore feature, which sparked an idea: What if I used Hypandra itself to generate the interview questions for my conversation with Anthony?
What do you mean by 'real'?
We want people to learn to think more clearly about their questions from the start. At Hypandra, we will help people build better habits when searching or prompting.
Designing Curiosity: A Conversation with Hypandra’s Logo Designer, Anthony Tran
I sat down with Anthony Tran, the designer of Hypandra's logo, to talk about his process of designing the logo and the inspiration behind it.
We Admit We Search, but We Don’t Show How
'90% of my job is Googling things,' they all said—laughing, sheepish, almost proud. But it seemed no one really showed how they searched. Are we doing the same thing with AI? Why? Why not?
How Do We Make Search Work?
What questions do we ask when we're stuck on a problem at work? How do we know what to search for? Who taught us how to search? What does it mean when everyone says 'just Google it' but nobody talks about how they Google it?
Why I Joined Hypandra
"I believe in the product, in what it’s capable of, and in the vision behind it."
The Origin of Hypandra
The origin of Hypandra: Are we asking the right questions? Could we ask better questions? How?