A companion driven study platform that is designed for students and built for teachers.
In Progress
2026
In a world that provides quick answers, studying doesn’t seem meaningful and even more so when the subject matter doesn’t seem to fit into everyday life. Students need motivation to study as well as a tool that helps them study.
Hakmigo is an agent disguised as a game that targets knowledge gaps and gaps in foundational tenets of critical thinking. Students learn and exercise their critical thinking skills via lessons and study sessions. Each session generates feedback about the student, their target areas and what critical thinking skills need to be strengthened. This information gets passed on tot teachers with the goal of creating a better in class experience that supports each student.
Product is currently being tested. Outcomes are expected soon.
Post-COVID virtual learning created gaps that no current tool was addressing — study habits. Students lost independent study habits, which has resulted in a decline in critical thinking skills and many students, when faced with exams, more concerned about getting the answer right instead of acquiring the knowledge of how to get the right answer. For teachers, they gained more platforms and loss time.
Key Insight: Both teachers and students were overwhelmed by the volume of new tools. Tools that were meant to help in the classroom were now disrupting it.
After four years of tutoring, I kept noticing the same pattern: students who understood concepts in afterschool sometimes struggled to apply it on an exam. The problem was not always a gap in knowledge— it was the ability to put theory to practice.
This distinction gave way to Hakmigo, a study companion that tags along with the student in every study session. The companion offers students a personalized studying experience by encouraging them, being a bounce board to discuss ideas, tracking areas of weakness and adapting their learning journey to their needs. At the same time, the companion silently give teachers feedback on each student, quietly helping teachers create better curriculums.
Hakmigo was built with the help of Claude and shipped with React, Supabase, and Claude AI API. The MVP is live on Vercel and in testing.
A structured cohort testing is underway. After testing, it will be expanded beyond the initial scope to support independent students on-boarding across multiple subject.
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The final design is an that can be used on both mobile and desktop devices. It’s portable, personal and effective.
Talk about short term outcomes and long term outcomes.
Being on the journey of building product from zero is no easy feat. It involves risks, courage, and support. What started out as simply building a tool has become a bigger endeavor. I don’t know what this project might become, but although it is not easy, I know it will be worth it.
