Synap

Two minutes a day, every day. A small lesson, evaluated by AI, that quietly compounds into a real skill while you're not looking.

What it is

Synap is a modular micro-learning platform for professionals. Daily two-minute lessons across a growing catalog of modules — engineering, finance, sales, security, leadership — each one short enough to fit between meetings, structured enough that you actually retain it, evaluated well enough that you know whether you understood it.

It ships as three coordinated surfaces:

• Mobile — a Kotlin Multiplatform shell targeting Android and iOS, where the daily lesson lives
• Web — a Blazor landing and trial experience
• Backend — a .NET 10 REST API serving versioned content packages and recording evaluation state

The content layer is versioned JSON modules with schemas, so module packs hydrate the app shell safely and authors can ship new content without redeploying the app.

What it does well

Respects your two minutes. Every lesson is sized for the time you actually have. No fifteen-minute "micro-courses" that lied about being micro.

AI-backed evaluation, not just multiple choice. Open responses are graded by an LLM against rubrics the module author writes. Synap can tell the difference between "I memorized the term" and "I can apply it."

Streaks that matter. Retention loops are explicit — daily streak, weekly streak, module completion. Streaks affect what you see tomorrow, not just a number on a leaderboard.

Buy what you need, when you need it. Module packs are commerce-layer purchasable, not a $40/month subscription you forget about. Take the SQL pack for $19; revisit it as needed.

On-device-ready. The KMP shell is structured to support on-device AI for evaluation once the runtime matrix is settled — so a lesson on a flight stays usable.

Who it's for

Mid-career professionals who want to keep getting sharper but don't have ninety minutes for a Coursera course.

Engineering managers who want their teams literate in security, SRE, finance, or governance without booking a workshop.

Career-changers and self-taught practitioners filling in foundational gaps incrementally.

Anyone with a daily commute who'd rather come out of it slightly better at their job than slightly worse from doomscrolling.

What it looks like in practice

A backend engineer opens Synap on the train. Today's lesson is two minutes on tail-latency vs. average latency. There's a short explanation, a worked example from a payments system, and a single open-response prompt: "Your p99 is 4× your p50. What two questions do you ask first?" The AI grades the answer, surfaces the specific concept the engineer missed, and queues a follow-up for next week. Total time: 90 seconds.

A team lead buys the "Engineering Manager Foundations" pack for ten reports. Each one gets the same eight-week sequence — performance reviews, hiring, leveling, conflict — at their own pace. The lead gets a dashboard of who's done what, not who scored what.

What it's not

It's not a course platform. There's no five-hour lecture, no certificate, no syllabus. It's a tool for habit-grade learning.

It's not a leaderboard product. Streaks are personal. Comparison is opt-in.

It's not a content farm. Modules are authored, reviewed, versioned. Quality over quantity.

Status

In active development. Backend domain model + API contracts forming up. Mobile KMP shell scaffolding. Content schema in content/ ready for first module pack.