Show HN: Athena – A community-curated repository of great learning resources

Here&#x27;s the link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.athena.cool" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.athena.cool</a><p>I have no idea why OP posted a link to another site and not the product itself.<p>EDIT: Talking about the website. IMO, things could be categorised and grouped better. There&#x27;s no grouping by fields of learning resources (e.g. technology, arts, languages, sciences, etc.). There seem to be links to individual lectures and not the whole courses. When I search, I get links sorted somehow randomly - theres no particular order. Not to mention UX, i.e. when I search for something, then click I link and want to go back. I go back to the homepage and not to my search. This SPA thing is not helping, and there are even more UX hiccups. IMO this site could&#x27;ve been much simpler - just a list of links, tags, titles and descriptions, where cmd+f will do the searching.

Athena is a community-curated repository of learning resources to help you learn anything.<p>We found it really hard to self-learn with Google and YouTube because you constantly have to sort through a ton of ads and news articles. So we spent a few hundred hours hand-curating the best learning resources we’ve found all over the Internet (on topics ranging from startups to hydraulics to morality).<p>We put the ~25k links into spreadsheets (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;spreadsheets&#x2F;d&#x2F;1XI4BS-_9BpDw8wMGWUqZJDQiPu-wgPAcRE00jXk8OBo&#x2F;edit#gid=1949736423" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;spreadsheets&#x2F;d&#x2F;1XI4BS-_9BpDw8wMGWUqZ...</a>) and labeled all of the links as blogs, courses, podcasts, lectures, videos, etc. We used this internally for a while and found it pretty useful, but to make it better we decided to build a real UI and a crawler that scrapes link metadata to make it easier to search through.<p>While we’ve managed to build up a pretty good collection ourselves, we think the best way for us to make this really useful is to open it up as a community project. Anyone can contribute to the repository through our Github (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AthenaAI&#x2F;community-search" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AthenaAI&#x2F;community-search</a>) or through our Typeform (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;athena-ai.typeform.com&#x2F;to&#x2F;DeChoI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;athena-ai.typeform.com&#x2F;to&#x2F;DeChoI</a>). We filter all contributions to ensure quality. When someone’s contribution gets added to the collection, we add their names to our contributor wall (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.athena.cool&#x2F;#&#x2F;contributors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.athena.cool&#x2F;#&#x2F;contributors</a>).<p>We hope this project can:<p>1. help self-learners learn more, quicker, and 2. help grow the collection into something more refined and comprehensive (which supports 1.)<p>This project is still rough and WIP (mvp af), but we’re refining it more and more everyday. All feedback is greatly appreciated!

I have some feedback for the UI&#x2F;UX. The category selectors on the side don&#x27;t seem to be sorted in any way and when I select one, I don&#x27;t expect it to move to the top of the list. It should just stay in it&#x27;s original position but indicate that it&#x27;s been checked.

Question: how are you ordering the first page results right now? It&#x27;s the same on multiple reloads but as far as I can tell there isn&#x27;t really an order to it all. Are you preferring specific types of content like talks or is it ordered another way?

Hate to be that gal, but is Athena OSS?