What Restep believes
Three words for how we think knowledge should move between people: freely, fairly, and onward.
Learn.
Anyone can learn anything by doing it once with a guide.
We learn by doing, not by reading about doing. The quickest way to learn a piece of software has always been to sit beside someone who knows it and follow along.
Restep puts that someone beside everyone: a guide that points to the next thing to click, says what it does, waits while you try, and takes over when you’d rather watch. Once, with a guide, is often all it takes. After that, it’s yours.
Earn.
The people who teach should be paid when people learn from them.
Most of what we know about our tools, we learned from someone generous: a colleague, a forum post, a video made late at night. That generosity rarely pays.
We think it should. On Restep, creators earn when people learn from what they made. Not for views or clicks, but for helping someone get something done.
Return.
What you learn, teach.
Knowledge grows by being passed on. The steps you worked out today are the steps someone else is stuck on tomorrow.
Record them once and they can guide anyone, in any language, long after you’ve moved on. Learn something, earn from what you know, then give it back, so the next person starts a little further ahead.
A note from the founder
Every time I’ve learned a new tool, the help I needed was never in the manual. It was the person at the next desk who leaned over and said, “No, here. Click this.” Thirty seconds, and I could do something I couldn’t do before.
Restep is my attempt to put that person beside everyone. Not a course, not a manual: someone who shows you once, at your pace, in the app you’re actually using, and then lets you do it yourself.
I also want the people who lean over to be rewarded for it. The best teachers I’ve known gave freely and asked for nothing. They deserved better, and if Restep works, they’ll get it.
Thank you for being here at the start. Learn something. Teach something. And tell us how we can do better.
Sako, founder
Pass it on
If this is how you think learning should work, share it with someone who teaches.