not sure how to use this app.
very confusing UI
Show HN: Flowery – Vocabulary builder powered by LLM and spaced repetition
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#12I think you should make a website that trains people to do the opposite - use simple language
What about "precise".
And: remember you are supposed to be strict in expressing and loose in interpreting. You have to interpret, you need that vocabulary - it is already around...
And: you know, sophisticated concepts (which we sometimes name) help building a sophisticated mind - which is better suited to deal with a complex world. (The opposite being e.g. "newspeak".)
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#13I like the typeface and concept but I found the site somewhat confusing to use. Also, I feel like it should recommend some difficult vocab words for me to check out, based on say a quiz to get a baseline sense of my current vocabulary.
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#14I've built a llm powered, srs app as well! https://vocabuo.com There is a generous freemium, or yearly at 30USD/year.
The supported languages are English, German and Spanish.
If you have any feedback or want a discount please let me know!
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#16not sure how to use this app.
Absolutely no idea how to use the app either. It wanted me to type an s word? So I typed store and hit enter, it gave me the definition of store. Very very confusing workflow.
Also absolutely clueless how this relates to a LLM.
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#17Overall, I like the idea a lot: it's Anki specifically for building your vocabulary. That said, I struggled a lot with the UX. I think you need to make it more obvious that this is a preview and today you can only use words starting with S. Changing the initial text in the search to 'Try searching for a word beginning with S...' would go a long way. I'd also explain the product to people a bit more when on the landin…
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 clarified: The letter corresponds to the day of the month, so the A headwords are unlocked on the 1st. Today’s the 19th, hence S.
The cards in the login/signup sheet are notifications, but I agree that the (non-dismissible) signup notification should be clickable. It’s not obvious that the padlock and key icons are buttons. As for passkeys, I do think they are ready for prime time, but password-less login will require user-friendly onboarding. The terse explanation on the Help page doesn’t cut it.
The five words sliding across the home page are currently hard-coded, but will soon cycle every weekday. You can turn off this upcoming “word-a-day” feature at https://flowery.app/settings.
I’m delighted that someone caught the Shakespeare reference! The product’s value should converge to its price as it evolves.
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#18Overall, I like the idea a lot: it's Anki specifically for building your vocabulary. That said, I struggled a lot with the UX. I think you need to make it more obvious that this is a preview and today you can only use words starting with S. Changing the initial text in the search to 'Try searching for a word beginning with S...' would go a long way. I'd also explain the product to people a bit more when on the landin…
I've just tried it on mobile. What's the reason for building a custom keyboard?
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 slides the viewport upward on iOS (pushing the fixed header off screen), whereas it shrinks it on Android (causing relayout that repositions any UI element fixed to the bottom).
Also, notice how the search box is anchored to (and animates with) the virtual keyboard. This effect cannot even be achieved with the experimental VirtualKeyboard API, which is not supported by WebKit anyway.
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#19not sure how to use this app.
Absolutely no idea how to use the app either. It wanted me to type an s word? So I typed store and hit enter, it gave me the definition of store. Very very confusing workflow. Also absolutely clueless how this relates to a LLM.
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 vocabulary list, and the Cards page (https://flowery.app/cards) generates cloze deletion flashcards for your hearts, which is where the LLM steps in.
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#20I like the typeface and concept but I found the site somewhat confusing to use. Also, I feel like it should recommend some difficult vocab words for me to check out, based on say a quiz to get a baseline sense of my current vocabulary.
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 time-tested method for a rich vocabulary is reading, so the long-term ambition is a built-in ebook reader, where saving words would be frictionless and context-aware.
In the meantime, you can browse the index, which is biased toward uncommon words:
https://flowery.app/words/a%2E%2E%2E
The ellipsis is a general operator that searches by prefix.