Where did the name come from?
Show HN: I made a site where students can create and share flashcards and notes
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#32Reminds me a bit of Quizlet (search functionality on Quizlet was amazing) but looks like a nice cohesive product. Best of luck!
Thank you. Quizlet is definitely an inspiration. Our benefit is that you can write notes and flashcards in one place and share them easily in study groups. And the study groups motivate each other through visible daily goals. Quizlet only offers flashcards.
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#33Bug: I have loaded once before, but at times it get stuck (with show blue logo showing at top/middle of screen).
Thanks for letting us know. Weird. Just tested and it worked here. We just scaled up more resources, so maybe it should be better now if you hot reload. Are you logged in? :)
Edit: now works in brave.
Re: Show HN: I made a site where students can create and share flashcards and notes
#34Where did the name come from?
Re: Show HN: I made a site where students can create and share flashcards and notes
#35Where did the name come from?
It was the name of a great primary school teacher I had. Well. Her name was Barbara, but then we changed it to Barbra to make it sound more like a company name... The good thing is we can rock to the tune of that Barbra Streisand song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWhtcU4-xAM this one? :)
It's the first thing that came to my mind as I read the title
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was the name of a great primary school teacher I had. Well. Her name was Barbara, but then we changed it to Barbra to make it sound more like a company name... The good thing is we can rock to the tune of that Barbra Streisand song.
Edit: the original = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK4HHaNhcgU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWhtcU4-xAM this one? :) It's the first thing that came to my mind as I read the title
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are friends of mine, but their feedback is legit :) Maybe we should be more explicit about it?
Yes, I think you should at least display them as what they are: testimonials from friends, not tweets from happy users. Whenever I see a collection of (legitimate) user tweets, it gives me reassurance that a) the product is liked b) the product has been around for a while c) the product is popular. A company will always praise its own product. But if users start to do it publically on Twitter, it's an honest recommen…
Re: Show HN: I made a site where students can create and share flashcards and notes
#38This is neat and like the intro. If you don't mind sharing what is your front-end ui stack (for example, for building the user interface, navigation, panes, etc).
Thank you :) no worries. We are using React.JS, Apollo and GraphQL. For the text editor we are using Slate which is pretty good. And other than that we use emotion for styling :) Our backend is Go, Postgres and Couchbase.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you. Quizlet is definitely an inspiration. Our benefit is that you can write notes and flashcards in one place and share them easily in study groups. And the study groups motivate each other through visible daily goals. Quizlet only offers flashcards.
If I recall, you can pretty easily share decks on Quizlet, at least years back when I used it. Is the difference with this that theoretically if I were in a study group we could work on editing them together, and then sort of 'compete' with each other to achieve daily goals (sort of like Memrise)?
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#40tryed, saw hotjar & lots of blocked resources by blockers and a near empty screen
We should be live again now. Let me know if it works. I would love to get your feedback!
Consider if you really need all that analytics, and whether it's worth the invasiveness (edit: and GDPR breach, you being located in Germany). Page hits, sign ups, created flash cards and other usage is something you have available without any of those tools.