Any plans for spaced repetition functionality?
Show HN: I made a site where students can create and share flashcards and notes
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#62Any plans for spaced repetition functionality?
All flashcard you create are tested with SM-2 Spaced repetition, so we already have that :)
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#63If 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.
Thanks a lot for the feedback. We will fix that asap.
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#64Hi folks, When our classes went remote, I struggled to stay motivated; the tools we used didn’t not play nice with one another. It was lonely. So I built Barbra to give students all the tools needed to study together in one place. I wanted to get the best parts of Anki, Notion, and Duolingo and just make them work for all learners. The tool is free. And you can find it at https://barbra.io At Barbra, students have th…
Consider changing the grid texture and re-recording your videos. Depending on the level of zoom, it creates an unpleasing effect: https://send.firefox.com/download/f3465be7ff20fc88/#Ebv76l6w...
Ughh, that looks nauseating. We will definitely fix that and replace it with auto-playing videos. We shouldn't have used gifs there, its a compression artifact I think.
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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.
Update: we removed it, and are replacing it with feedback people tweeted at us (not friends), and feedback we got from here and Reddit :)
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#66This 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.
Thanks for sharing. So no library for styling forms? Is all that styled by hand?
The site looks great.
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Thanks for letting us know. We are removing Hotjar. And we don't use GTM (we forgot we had it) so that is also gone. We use Fullstory just to track bugs and it helps us a lot – I hope that is ok.
That's great to hear! I'm not too familiar with Fullstory, so I recommend reading up on their GDPR docs[1] and judge for yourself :) [1] https://www.fullstory.com/resources/gdpr-and-fullstory/#how-...
Update: removed Hotjar
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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?
> charging power-users (people with a lot of flashcards and notes) a small subscription fee of around 5-8$ a month
Don’t charge that little monthly. Maybe $30 a quarter for more than 5,000 text flash cards or $50 for that plus photos and videos. No one has yet made a success of flash cards with a real big company. Anki is one guy. Remembr.it focuses on Chinese vocabulary. Memrise needs to figure out a way to make real money because they took VC.
Good luck. Counting to $40,000 a year in $8 increments is really hard. Don’t handicap yourself by charging so little.
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Thanks for asking. Yes we are, but we want to always have a super generous free-tier. We were looking into charging educators for using Barbra in the classroom with more features (like tracking, permissions, etc), and also charging power-users (people with a lot of flashcards and notes) a small subscription fee of around 5-8$ a month. What do you think? :) is it fair?
> charging power-users (people with a lot of flashcards and notes) a small subscription fee of around 5-8$ a month Don’t charge that little monthly. Maybe $30 a quarter for more than 5,000 text flash cards or $50 for that plus photos and videos. No one has yet made a success of flash cards with a real big company. Anki is one guy. Remembr.it focuses on Chinese vocabulary. Memrise needs to figure out a way to make rea…
That is true. Thank you. We want to empower ourselves enough to invest back into product and make it awesome.
Specially during Covid we need to figure out how to stay alive without necessarily fundraising.
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What did Couchbase offer that you found Postgres not a good fit for?
We started with Couchbase and then switched to Postgres. So it's actually the other way around. We needed ACID transactions.
Do you see yourself phasing out couch base, or do you see a reason to keep both?