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

#51

Hitting "enter" instead of clicking the button in registration form does not work. Unsubscribe link in registration confirmation E-Mail does not work. Login does not work (gives 404). But landing page looks nice.

You are unsubscribed but Sendgrid sends you to a 404 for some reason, but you won't get more emails.

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

#52

You should have a "TRY DEMO NOW" button where I get to play with a demo sandbox. I just want to click around for a bit and I'm too disinterested to make an account.

Good idea :D It is something we want to do, but just didn't get the time to do it yet.

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

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post #53

Hi guys, Barbra co-founder here too. Would love to hear your thoughts on the tool as well.

Tool looks great! Out of curiosity, are you planning to monetize? If so, do you mind me asking how?

Thanks for asking. Yes we are, but we want to always have a super generous free-tier. We were looking into charging educators for using Barbra in the classroom with more features (like tracking, permissions, etc), and also charging power-users (people with a lot of flashcards and notes) a small subscription fee of around 5-8$ a month.

What do you think? :) is it fair?

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

#55
post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tool looks great! Out of curiosity, are you planning to monetize? If so, do you mind me asking how?

Thanks for asking. Yes we are, but we want to always have a super generous free-tier. We were looking into charging educators for using Barbra in the classroom with more features (like tracking, permissions, etc), and also charging power-users (people with a lot of flashcards and notes) a small subscription fee of around 5-8$ a month. What do you think? :) is it fair?

Maybe you could allow creators to make their decks purchasable? Maybe take a cut from that purchase

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

#56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for asking. Yes we are, but we want to always have a super generous free-tier. We were looking into charging educators for using Barbra in the classroom with more features (like tracking, permissions, etc), and also charging power-users (people with a lot of flashcards and notes) a small subscription fee of around 5-8$ a month. What do you think? :) is it fair?

Maybe you could allow creators to make their decks purchasable? Maybe take a cut from that purchase

Hmm yes. Could be good. We are trying to build this "study group template" library. So we are putting the notes and flashcards from our university lectures up for free in the platform. Maybe asking students to do so too for their lectures and then giving them money based on how many people use it would be nice.

It could look like this (mockup) https://imgur.com/JVdhnco

What do you think? :)

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

#57

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Anki supports creating cards from LaTeX notes via an add-on[0], and for importing from a plaintext-based format there is a command-line tool[1]. After that, one can use Anki’s accompanying shared decks feature to make a deck available to others[2]. Admittedly, all of those options aren’t entirely hassle-free or discoverable. [0] https://tentativeconvert.github.io/LaTeX-Note-Importer-for-A... [1] https://metacpan.org/…

Exactly. It takes 100 add-ons to get this to work. We just wanted to make it so that I can highlight a text and say "create a flashcard" and then it is all done. We also offer more tests options as you can do Memrise-like multiple choice test or an Anki-like card-flip test. Is that something that you find useful? :) I know some passion are avid Anki-ers so I would love to get your take on it.

I value integration flexibility and want to control or at least know exactly the spaced repetition algorithm I am using. Additionally, I believe a hosted service without trustworthy end-to-end encryption is a no-go for personal knowledge management. So far I’ll stick with org-drill and Anki, it works for me (not using any add-ons).

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

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post #58

I signed up and then got a bit confused when I had to create a hub. Might be a good idea to have an example image or video on the right side of the form to illustrate what it is and how it's going to look after I create it.

Agreed, we want to remove the Hub thing altogether for normal users. We recycled the permissions system from something we were working on last year, and that is why we have it.

Hubs work well for schools (e.g. harvard.barbra.io), but doesn't feel very useful for individuals.

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

#60
If you want me to agree to your TOS or PP on the sign up page, at least provide a link to them THERE.

Also, when returning from "Sign up" or "Sign in" via the back button, the logo and both "Sign up" and "Sign in" buttons and the footer with the links to TOS and PP are missing, need to refresh.

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