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The pot calling the kettle black, methinks. http://flowery.app/words/I%20dare%20say Dictionaries accept both forms, but the two-word phrase predates “daresay,” originating in the 1…

As usual, I’m chipping away at my highbrow app for readers and writers. It’s an authoritative dictionary, a reverse dictionary, a spaced repetition system for vocabulary building, …

https://flowery.app/books – An e-book reader and library of selected classics from Standard Ebooks. I’m working on the table-stakes feature of persistence for the bookmark widget, …

I’m building an e-book reader for the web and PWA platforms: https://flowery.app/books The library of public domain classics is courtesy of Standard Ebooks. I publish a book every …

Good catch! I am still fleshing out the EPUB parser, so loading of CSS and images (other than the SE logo) is not yet supported. I hard-coded the styling for now, which works well …

Many thanks to each of you editors for the sterling work! I was recently inspired to embark on a project to mirror the Standard Ebooks library, starting with a book that you produc…

Thanks! I take the “eccentric” label as a compliment. I may have gone overboard with the minimalism. Users had been all the more baffled before I added the tooltips hinting to tap …

I appreciate the kind words. A lot of painstaking work went into aesthetics. The Stripe integration launched a few days ago, so the app is very much in the red. Paid advertising si…

You can quickly populate the search box by tapping any word (or highlighting on desktop) in the hybrid dictionary/thesaurus. As I mentioned in another comment though, the ideal wor…

The dictionary preview is limited to the nth letter of the alphabet, where n is the day of the month, as hinted by the search box’s placeholder. Try looking up any word that starts…

The timeless elegance of Caslon. Features to discover vocabulary are on the drawing board. In the short term, a “word-a-day” feature will recommend five words per week, but the tim…

You look up a word in the dictionary and tap the heart next to its definition (as the tooltip suggests) to save it. The Hearts page ( https://flowery.app/hearts ) is your personal …

I decided to roll my own virtual keyboard after a protracted battle with inconsistencies and quirks across mobile browsers. The glaring difference is that the native keyboard slide…

Thanks for the constructive criticism! There’s definitely room for improvement. The design was intended to be minimalistic, but perhaps overly so. The preview could indeed be clari…

https://flowery.app is exclusively a PWA. It was designed from the ground up to prioritize the “Add to Home Screen” experience on iOS. The web is the ideal platform given the app’s…

Dear hackers: Whether English is your first or nth natural language, you may be familiar with this vexing experience: You encounter a flowery word in a book, podcast, or HN comment…