Write a workshop as one plain Markdown file and run it live. Students join with a code - no accounts - and you see which step everyone is on: who's stuck, who's done, who needs help. Polls, quizzes, chat and a session report built in. Free, no credit card.
I'm Yaniv, a solo builder. Workshopy.io started with a moment every instructor knows.
You finish a step and ask "can we move on?" A couple of nods, mostly silence. You can't tell who's done, who's still in the middle of the task, and who hit a problem and quietly stopped. I've been on the other side too: mid-task in someone else's workshop, with no good way to say "give me a minute" or "I'm stuck" without interrupting the whole room.
So I built the tool I wanted in both of those rooms:
📝 One Markdown file is the whole workshop. Every # heading is a step, #[quiz] makes it a graded quiz. Write it, paste it from your favorite AI, or import an .md file. Export it back out anytime.
🔑 Students join with a 6-character code. No accounts, no installs, any device.
👀 You see the whole room, live. Who's on which step, who's done, who's stuck. Stuck students float to the top of your list before they're lost for good.
📊 One-tap check-ins, polls, chat, and a session report when it's over.
It's free forever for sessions up to 45 min / 30 people, no credit card. (Pro is $19/mo if you need longer or bigger rooms.)
Watch the short demo above, or try the whole loop in two minutes: create a workshop from the sample template, then join it from your phone as a "student".
Honestly, I'm launching this to find out two things: whether this problem is as common as I think it is, and whether Workshopy.io actually helps. So if you teach, train, or run workshops of any kind, I'd love to hear from you.
Every reply, good or bad, helps me build this in the right direction. 🙏 🙏 🙏
curious how the "who's stuck" detection actually works - is it purely time-on-step (flagging anyone who's been on a step way longer than the group median), or does it also look at things like repeated back-and-forth navigation between steps as a stuck signal?
Nice idea. A few questions:
I had is how do you see this being run? Right now a lot of similar workshops run on Google meet or Zoom, would this tool replace that or is it a supplement to that experience?
I couldn't quite understand from the video but where is the "work", in this case coding being done ? Is it also done on workshopy or it can be done anywhere and the participant either says its done or they are stuck ?
Other than that, pretty cool idea, not only students, even at work at times workshops can get a bit chaotic. One thought would be agentic helpers that could help unblock participants which can be helpful if say the workshop has a really large audience.
All the best.
What happens if half the room finishes a step while the other half is still working on it?
Glad it can be exported back to Markdown. I wouldn't want my workshop locked into one tool.
The session report could be really handy when running the same workshop again.
I'd probably use AI to draft the workshop, then clean it up in a Markdown here.
The "who's stuck" bit is actually useful. That's usually hard to spot in a live workshop.
Markdown for the whole workshop is a pretty nice idea. Way easier to edit too.
About Workshopy.io on Product Hunt
“Turn a Markdown file into a live, trackable workshop”
Workshopy.io launched on Product Hunt on September 15th, 2026 and earned 91 upvotes and 23 comments, placing #19 on the daily leaderboard. Write a workshop as one plain Markdown file and run it live. Students join with a code - no accounts - and you see which step everyone is on: who's stuck, who's done, who needs help. Polls, quizzes, chat and a session report built in. Free, no credit card.
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Yaniv Grama
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I'm Yaniv, a solo builder.
Workshopy.io started with a moment every instructor knows.
You finish a step and ask "can we move on?" A couple of nods, mostly silence. You can't tell who's done, who's still in the middle of the task, and who hit a problem and quietly stopped. I've been on the other side too: mid-task in someone else's workshop, with no good way to say "give me a minute" or "I'm stuck" without interrupting the whole room.
So I built the tool I wanted in both of those rooms:
📝 One Markdown file is the whole workshop. Every # heading is a step, #[quiz] makes it a graded quiz. Write it, paste it from your favorite AI, or import an .md file. Export it back out anytime.
🔑 Students join with a 6-character code. No accounts, no installs, any device.
👀 You see the whole room, live. Who's on which step, who's done, who's stuck. Stuck students float to the top of your list before they're lost for good.
📊 One-tap check-ins, polls, chat, and a session report when it's over.
It's free forever for sessions up to 45 min / 30 people, no credit card. (Pro is $19/mo if you need longer or bigger rooms.)
Watch the short demo above, or try the whole loop in two minutes: create a workshop from the sample template, then join it from your phone as a "student".
Honestly, I'm launching this to find out two things: whether this problem is as common as I think it is, and whether Workshopy.io actually helps.
So if you teach, train, or run workshops of any kind, I'd love to hear from you.
Every reply, good or bad, helps me build this in the right direction.
🙏 🙏 🙏