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Education · Do this yourself
Ground Chinese study sessions in your own textbook with an MCP server.
✅ He published the repo and a hosted server.
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Who it’s for
Teachers, students, tutors, coaches and anyone learning something new.
Adapt it to your industry
- Coach: practice exercises and check-ins for your clients
- Healthcare: simple explainers for patients (checked by a professional)
- Shop: short how-to guides for your products
Step by step
- Write what you want to learn or teach, and the level (beginner, intermediate).
- Open ChatGPT, Claude or Grok and paste the prompt below.
- Ask for a 2-week plan with short daily lessons and a quiz at the end of each.
- Do one lesson and ask the AI to quiz you or your student; ask it to explain wrong answers.
- Check key facts against a trusted textbook or source.
- Save the best lessons in a document you can reuse.
Ready-to-copy prompt
Using only the textbook tool, quiz me on lesson [N] vocabulary. Then explain the difference between [word A] and [word B] using only examples from the book.Start with AI
Opens the AI with this guide and the prompt filled in.
- Cost
- $0–20/month (free tiers or one AI plan)Our estimate
- Time
- 1–2 weekendsOur estimate
How to make money from it
Pricing idea: Sell a short course or cohort (for example $50–500), or tutoring sessions that use the AI-made materials.
Finding your first 10 customers
- Teach one free live session on the topic.
- Share the free lesson materials publicly.
- Invite attendees to a paid follow-up.
Ideas, not promises. Results vary.
Details: source, numbers and tags
What they did
navigate8310 OCR’d his Chinese textbooks and built a stateless MCP server to run quizzes and compare similar words without extra grammar creeping in. He uses it with GLM 5.3.
How it went
He published the repo and a hosted server.
Worth knowing
Restricting the model to your textbook keeps it at your level.
- Difficulty
- IntermediateOur rating
- Time to build
- Not reportedOur estimate
- Monthly cost
- Not reported
- Revenue
- Not reportedWe only show revenue the source states
- Engagement
- 1 reply to HN commentComment in “Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?” (198 points, 201 comments) · fetched Oct 15, 2026
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Original builder recipe
- OCR tool
- Stateless MCP server over the text
- Any LLM client
- Pick one concept to learn or teach.
- Have the agent build or explain it step by step.
- Test your understanding by changing parameters or asking why.
- Iterate.
Tags
Read the original
- Hacker News: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49561857 ↗ (opens in new tab) Sep 4, 2026 · HN comment, 1 replies, thread: 198 points, 201 comments (fetched 2026-10-15)
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