The tutor should already know what you're studying.

I'm building Armin with Alfred Liu and Matin Mahmoud. It's a Chrome extension for Canvas that organizes your courses and adds study tools grounded in your own course material: flashcards, practice exams, and a way to ask questions of the course itself. Right now Canvas is the only platform we support.

Organization and customization are free. The study tools come with a free monthly allowance and an optional Premium tier. The point isn't another dashboard. It's making the actual learning better.

getarmin.com ↗Armin for Canvas on the Chrome Web Store ↗Install page ↗Instagram ↗Try the machine, a toy version of what Armin does →

Armin answering "Why is marginal cost the derivative of total cost?" with a worked answer and a citation to lecture 7, slide 14 — The tutor. Frame from the launch film, which recreates the extension faithfully.

Armin dashboard in light and dark themes, from the Chrome Web Store listing — Armin for Canvas on the Chrome Web Store. Free; optional Premium study tools.

Armin grade projection: your grade now and with the marks you expect — Grade projection from what is still to come.

Where it came from

Armin grew out of tPortal, a desktop app I built in my first week at U of T. The commit history below is tPortal's; it is also the origin story.

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2026-09-11 · 23:50Ignore build outputs; Windows smoke test logs via --enable-logging

What I did, and what the team did

Mine

Product and business direction, growth and user feedback.
Execution on everything outside the core engineering.

Team

Matin Mahmoud is technical lead; Alfred Liu is co-founder.

Live in the Chrome Web Store as Armin for Canvas; free, with optional Premium study tools. verified · Chrome Web Store listing and getarmin.com, fetched Nov 1 2026.

What changed

Students don't want another dashboard. They want the one they already have to behave.
A free tier people actually open beats a feature list nobody reads.

Also in this bay

tPortalOne week into university, I started building my own software for it.