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Re: Show HN: I built a quizlet clone in 2 hours

#11

I know you’re 15, but I’ll talk to you like an adult. I’m no fan of Quizlet, but to call this a “clone” is outrageous. It’s like sticking four wheels on a wooden board and calling it a Corolla clone. At best you can say that you made a flash cards toy app that can read data from Quizlet. Also, take a look at Anki. Intentionally misleading is not marketing, nor is it “hustle”, it almost always smells like a scam even…

I made a flash cards toy app that can read data from Quizlet. I made a shitty MVP, and I'm watching people use it, and I'm seeing where they stop. With Anki, I stop immediately. No real world user is installing software like that on their device, the homepage just screams virus to someone unfamiliar with opensource. This is where I was after two hours; check back in in two weeks.

On behalf of HN (which I have no authority to speak for) please disregard that bizarre rant by our resident curmudgeon.

If you really did all that in 2 hours, that's quite an accomplishment! But I think it's a little early for a Show HN. It's tough to use without any kind of instructional text. Repost when you've got a more usable interface, and I think you'll get more traction here.

I really like how you don't require people to register. I do the same thing for all my apps, and it's great for getting people hooked. No one likes a sign up form. Just store people's data in a cookie, or localstorage until they make the decision to sign up.

Your Anki comment is spot on. When I downloaded it (a few weeks ago actually), I spent 5 minutes making sure that website was _really_ the Anki I heard about on HN.

asuth was around 15 when he built Quizlet and now it's (somehow) worth a billion. There's plenty of room for a newcomer in the market especially since Quizlet started putting things behind a paywall. Good luck!

Re: Show HN: I built a quizlet clone in 2 hours

#12

I know you’re 15, but I’ll talk to you like an adult. I’m no fan of Quizlet, but to call this a “clone” is outrageous. It’s like sticking four wheels on a wooden board and calling it a Corolla clone. At best you can say that you made a flash cards toy app that can read data from Quizlet. Also, take a look at Anki. Intentionally misleading is not marketing, nor is it “hustle”, it almost always smells like a scam even…

I made a flash cards toy app that can read data from Quizlet. I made a shitty MVP, and I'm watching people use it, and I'm seeing where they stop. With Anki, I stop immediately. No real world user is installing software like that on their device, the homepage just screams virus to someone unfamiliar with opensource. This is where I was after two hours; check back in in two weeks.

Yea, you're kind of right, Anki isn't very user-friendly and has a massive learning curve for "today's" standard, I wouldn't say people don't install software anymore or that Anki looks like a virus.

Anyway this is really impressive for 2 hours, well done!

If you don't mind me asking, are you taking any exams, is this the reason you made it?

Re: Show HN: I built a quizlet clone in 2 hours

#13
I think it's great that you've developed an app with Svelte and you're using OAuth 2.0 login with Firebase. It's awesome that you actually published something!

Things I don't like: The design, the lack of information on how to use it, it seems to be broken in Firefox - or maybe I just don't know how to use it.

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