Contral - The IDE that teaches you while you build. With Build Mode, you apply everything independently with context aware assistance that supports your thinking. Build with AI agents and learn along the way as you build. With Learn Mode, learn specific languages. You get step by step guidance, real time explanations, and direction as you work on actual tasks. 200+ developers are already on the waitlist. This is the first step towards changing how developers learn.
Curious to hear from everyone here:
When you were learning to code, what was actually harder for you
understanding concepts or building something on your own from scratch?
A lot of people can follow tutorials and understand what’s happening, but the moment they try to build independently, things start breaking down. That gap between learning and building seems to be where most people get stuck.
What was your experience like?
Where did things start getting difficult for you?
this is such a smart approach — most AI coding tools just do the work for you, but Contral actually helps you understand what's happening while you build. the Learn Mode concept is brilliant, especially for developers who want to level up without sitting through tutorials. the fact that 200+ devs are already on the waitlist before launch says a lot. excited to see where this goes, congrats on the launch!
How does the Learn Mode adapt when you're already familiar with a language but just new to a specific framework? Congrats on the launch!
But if we create a rules file for the ide we use ( ex : Cursor ) , it remembers our choice of getting the code explained to us , so after every code / file it make changes , the AI itself would write an explanatory blog or technical muse for our understanding. just for serving a purpose of learning while vibe coding ~ this can be get done by existing IDEs & AI plugins... i am still not convinced abt the product fit for the problem you are solving, cuz its a solved problem.
Writing this cuz you asked for a genuine review , besides that - forking a open source IDE and adding AI integration is a skillful task tbh , good job !
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Devansh, 18 year old engineering student from India. Me and my co-founder Samagra built Contral over the last 6 months with zero funding.
The problem we kept hitting: we were vibecoding entire projects and couldn't explain any of it in interviews. The AI made every decision and never explained a single one.
So we built the fix directly into the IDE.
Contral teaches you every line while AI codes your project. Not after. Not in docs. Right as it happens.
Key features:
→ AI writes the code. You learn while it does.
→ Teaches every function and architectural decision in real time
→ Codebase Analyzer: tested on a 10M+ line repo, mapped full architecture and generated quizzes from actual production code → Learn Mode: structured curriculum starting with Java
Would love your honest feedback, brutal is fine, we can handle it. Ask us anything 🙏
I'm so happy I found your product! I'm a solo founder and built my product entirely with the help of AI. At first, I watched a ton of tutorials on YouTube and even took a paid course, but I didn't really get it because you have to try everythin out in practice right away. Eventually, I managed to figure out GSD, and it built the app for me. But I’d be lying if I said it went even halfway smoothly. No, it constantly forgot what we were doing, mixed up tasks, and just didn’t understand me. And I didn’t understand it. I still don’t. I’d love to test your product.
