study with avocadi — learning rarely happens alone
study with avocadi is at its core neither an app nor a website — it's a community. A place where people come together to learn: for university, for school, for a course, for themselves — and where they motivate each other, distract each other, get through it, and celebrate it.
The website that exists now is the visible entry point. But the heart of the project beats where people actually talk to each other: in the open communities on Discord and Fluxer.
One community, two platforms
Learning is something very personal, and the platforms people enjoy hanging out on are too. That's why study with avocadi runs deliberately in parallel on two platforms:
- Discord — for everyone who already lives there, chats with friends, and hops from server to server.
- Fluxer — an open, open-source alternative that feels similar but carries a different self-understanding.
Both communities are about the same thing: sharing goals, learning together, swapping notes about progress — and, in between, just talking about other stuff. Learning communities rarely work if they're only about learning. They need room for everything around it so people keep coming back.
The goal is easy to put into words but not trivial: motivate as many people as possible to learn — and give them a platform where they can talk about it.
The bots: build once, run everywhere
Each community comes with a bot — one for Discord, one for Fluxer. But technically they're not two separate projects; they're two interfaces on the same backend.
The actual logic — what a feature does, how data is managed, how user actions are processed — lives in a shared core. The platform-specific parts are thin and only care about talking to the respective API. That has three practical consequences:
- Features happen once, run twice. New features don't need to be developed, tested and maintained twice over.
- Behaviour stays consistent. What works on Discord works on Fluxer the same way — and vice versa. No platform accidentally gets a feature earlier or in better shape.
- More platforms are a small extension, not a new project. Whether Matrix, Revolt or something else entirely comes along later — it stays mostly interface work.
Both bots will be released open source shortly. The idea behind that isn't just transparency, but also that other learning communities can adopt the same approach without starting from zero.
Where it's going: from community to study app
The website is intentionally kept small for now — a landing point that leads to the community. The plan, though, is to grow it step by step into a real study app that brings its own tools alongside the community:
- Study games — small, focused formats that turn repetition and recall into something that feels less like a duty and more like play.
- Pomodoro tools — synchronised, so you can study in sessions with others instead of only by yourself.
- Integration with the community — so what happens in the app doesn't sit apart from what happens in the Discord and Fluxer channels.
The throughline stays the same throughout: learning works better when you don't do it alone. Everything that gets built on study with avocadi is meant to support exactly that — from the community through the bots to the tools that come later.
How to get involved
study with avocadi runs on people being part of it. Both communities are open, the bar to entry is low, and the bots will land on our Gitea instance and GitHub over the next few weeks — for anyone who wants to take a look, contribute, or take inspiration.
More on that here soon.