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Show HN: I made a site where students can create and share flashcards and notes

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Re: Show HN: I made a site where students can create and share flashcards and notes

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Where 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.

Re: Show HN: I made a site where students can create and share flashcards and notes

#32
post #4

Reminds 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.

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)?

Re: Show HN: I made a site where students can create and share flashcards and notes

#33

Bug: 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? :)

Works in chrome for me but not brave.

Edit: now works in brave.

Re: Show HN: I made a site where students can create and share flashcards and notes

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post #30

Where 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.

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

Re: Show HN: I made a site where students can create and share flashcards and notes

#36

Earlier 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

Exactly. How great is it to rock to that tune?

Re: Show HN: I made a site where students can create and share flashcards and notes

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post #17

Earlier 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…

Totally agree. We are changing that now. Thanks a lot for the feedback. Will rectify this.

Re: Show HN: I made a site where students can create and share flashcards and notes

#38

This 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.

What did Couchbase offer that you found Postgres not a good fit for?

Re: Show HN: I made a site where students can create and share flashcards and notes

#39

Earlier 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)?

Exactly right. It is not only about sharing a final product, but rather about creating it together. And then competing to see who shares and learns the most.

Re: Show HN: I made a site where students can create and share flashcards and notes

#40

tryed, 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!

You still have GTM, Hotjar and Fullstory included by default, without opt-in and no way to opt out. This significantly reduces your trustworthiness for me, as well as my willingness to try out or recommend to others what looks like a pretty useful tool.

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.

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