About Interakly
Video should be a conversation, not a monologue
Interakly is an interactive video platform that turns passive watching into active participation. Quizzes, polls, hotspots, code workspaces, branching paths — layered directly onto any video, with real-time analytics to show what's working. Creators can also bundle videos into courses with prerequisite gating and a per-student gradebook — explore the public directory at /explore.
The story
Interakly was created by Joseph Nordqvist, a developer and educator who kept running into the same problem: video is the most popular medium for teaching, but it's entirely one-directional. Viewers watch, maybe take notes, and there's no way to know if they actually understood anything until a separate test days later.
Existing tools either offered a handful of basic question types bolted onto a video player, or required institutional contracts that individual teachers and trainers couldn't access. There was no platform that combined deep interactivity — 25 interaction types, code workspaces, live streaming, branching — with the simplicity of pasting a YouTube link and sharing it.
So Joseph built one. Interakly started as a side project in late 2025 and has grown into a full platform serving educators, corporate trainers, and content creators. Every feature — from the timeline editor to the analytics dashboard to LTI grade passback — was designed and built by one person, with a focus on doing a few things well rather than doing everything halfway.
What Interakly is built on
Learning outcomes first
Every interaction type exists because it helps someone learn or train more effectively. No feature bloat for the sake of a checklist.
Accessible to individuals
A free tier that's genuinely useful. No institutional contracts required. A single teacher or trainer can sign up and start building today.
Works with your video
YouTube, uploaded video, or live streams. You bring the content, Interakly adds the interactivity.
Honest about trade-offs
Interakly is great at interactive video. It's not a full LMS, a lesson builder, or an enterprise video CMS. Clarity about what it is and isn't.
How it's built
Interakly runs on modern infrastructure designed for speed and reliability. The entire application is edge-deployed — no single-region servers, no cold starts.
Cloudflare Workers
Edge-deployed globally for fast load times everywhere
Cloudflare Stream
HLS video delivery with signed URLs, captions, and thumbnails
Convex
Real-time backend for live subscriptions, sessions, and analytics
Next.js + React
Server-rendered pages with a responsive, accessible interface
Get in touch
Have questions, feedback, or want to chat about interactive video? Reach out anytime.