# RozAI: AI Literacy Without the Jargon

> *Roz, रोज़ Hindi (noun) -* Everyday

This was the conversation between me and my dad a month ago,

*(Here are some Telugu transcripts translated into English)*

> Dad: Arey edhaina manchi resource untey choodu ra AI nerchukodaniki  
> *(Hey, find me a good resource to learn about AI)*
> 
> Me: Okay, daddy nenu choosi cheptanu
> 
> (Okay, daddy let me find some)
> 
> Dad: Nerchukovali ra AI gurinchi improve avvali
> 
> (I have to learn AI, I need to improve)

I saw his eagerness to improve and learn, adding to that there's a lot of *FOMO* (fear of missing out) out on the internet.

I quickly made a quick google search as usual and found some, but none of them I found are simple enough, they are either too technical and most of the content in them are not even needed in day to day activities. So I thought: "Why don't I build one?", So I rolled up my sleeves and started working on it.

## Background

My dad is a mechanical engineer, running his own contracting firm, has a decent exposure to internet, messaging tools, social media and has good English skills.

When I looked around, there are people with similar skill-sets right in my family (my uncles and aunts). I'm a computer science graduate and been coding and building stuff from almost 10 years, it is also my responsibility to teach and simplify stuff for people, I did that back in school when I worked as a Tutor, a TA (at UWM). Let's dive in.

I initially sent out a form across my family circle to know what are the expectations and what are people afraid of.

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A quick glance at the results of the survey -

*   Barriers
    
    *   Don't know where to start
        
    *   Lack of time
        
    *   Lack of Confidence
        
    *   Too Technical
        
*   Digital Literacy
    
    *   Most of them are comfortable with basic tasks (use a smartphone, search the internet for information, basic troubleshooting, install and signup for apps)
        
    *   Most of them could follow instructions, but struggle when problems
        
*   Security and Privacy Concerns
    
    *   Personal Information
        
    *   Deepfake/Scam anxiety
        

## Philosophies

There are a certain philosophies I considered before I started building the application -

*   The users shouldn't probably visit the app again  
    Yes, This website is for empowering people and remove their fear for tech/AI. So if done right, they would probably be able to use AI and at the same time don't need any new courses/places to learn how to use AI from.
    
*   Learn by Doing, Not Reading  
    I can obviously can't fully have no reading content. The nature of the chat based UI, is making people habituated to reading. So I need to have interactive plus reading material, where the content pushes them to use AI apps.
    
*   No Jargon with Justification.  
    They don't know what is machine learning or AI is.
    
*   Healthy Skepticism over Blind Trust.  
    People blindly trusted Google search results for health info. AI is even more convincing for health, financial and legal info. So take them with a grain of salt.
    
*   Visual and Fun.  
    People easily get bored or overwhelmed with a lot of text The content needs to keep them engaged
    

Now that I have my principles set, before I start building the application. I wanted to know if I'm missing anything. I need to wear my Product thinking hat, so I interviewed my mom, dad and my uncle to check what are some boring day to day tasks that could be automated.

Once I have the clear picture of what needs to be done, I summoned Claude Code agent to build out my application, carefully crafting the content, running out of my daily token limit, waiting for it to be reset. It took me some 2 odd weeks to finally announce - [RozAI.](https://rozai.co.in)

## What's more to come?

*   Indic languages support - Telugu, Hindi, and probably Tamil.
    
*   More chapters - AI for Work, More info on scams, optional video content for specific languages.
    

Roz AI is just getting started. Hey, more is coming! Please do leave feedback!
