The first version was embarrassingly simple. It was a shared Google Calendar embedded into a free WordPress site. The feature was minimal: a user could post a question on a digital whiteboard, and anyone in the same time zone could annotate it. The tagline read: “Stuck? Draw it. Solve it. Together.”
Worst of all, a new feature—an AI tutor that Lin Wei had reluctantly added to compete with ChatGPT—began answering questions instantly. And while it was efficient, something was lost. Users stopped explaining why an answer worked. They just pasted the AI’s output and moved on. studykaki
Lin Wei cried a little. Not from the answer, but from the absence of cruelty. No one mocked the question. No one demanded a "proof of effort." It was just help, given freely. The first version was embarrassingly simple