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Shaidozzaman Araf
Shaidozzaman Araf

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PippaQuiz: Building the First Step Toward Smarter Education

As a teen founder, I’ve always been fascinated by how technology can change the way we live, learn, and work. Today, I launched my first product, PippaQuiz, a small app with a big ambition: to help teachers create thoughtful, concept-driven questions in seconds and to empower students to practice real understanding instead of memorization.

The idea came from watching the struggle teachers face. Crafting questions that actually test understanding takes hours. Students often survive by memorizing rather than learning. I wanted to change that, and I wanted to start now.

How it works:

  • Teachers type a topic
  • PippaQuiz instantly generates multiple types of questions: multiple choice, short answer, reasoning-based, and creative problem-solving
  • Students can use it too to test themselves, creating a self-assessment loop that encourages deeper learning

What excites me most isn’t the app itself, but the bigger vision. I want to build a world where learning is more meaningful, where teachers focus on teaching and guiding, and AI handles repetitive evaluation. This is just the first step toward that future, and I see it as a startup playground where every small feature, every tweak, can have an outsized impact on real learning.

For developers and fellow builders, what matters here is the mindset: start small, build tools that solve real pain points, and don’t wait for perfect conditions to begin. I didn’t wait until college or a perfect team. I coded, iterated, and shipped. And in the process, I learned more than any textbook could teach.

I’m sharing this because I hope it inspires other young founders and builders to tackle problems they care about, no matter how ambitious they seem. Education is massive, messy, and underrated as a startup opportunity, but solving it could change millions of lives.

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