Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool

Awesome, I'm going to try it out. I really think there's a lot of room for professional SRS tools.

A few things I've found using SRS.

- I often want to practice on the go, but Anki's mobile offering isn't great for inputting new cards, or managing partial cards (i.e. I think of a sentence I don't know).

- I have a couple modes of operation. When I'm studying I'm often at a computer, so I want bulk input/output - i.e. create a lot of cards fast.

- Offline support is essential, since my study time is usually during my commute.

Anyway, congrats on launching!

It is hard take an idea, spend the time to build, and make it live. Congrats on doing this!

I'm not the target audience, so I can't comment on the value proposition. I'll just point out a few things I noticed on the site:

- The "Free" signup button brings you to the login and not register page. Also the $5 pay link goes to login too. I used the $5 link and then clicked register. Registered and was never asked for payment. - On the register, suggest not asking for username creation unless you really need it...just use the email as the username. - The step-though-guide last step has "next" and doesn't do anything. Should be close. There are a few good step guide packages out there you might want to consider. - In the app, clicking "Upgrade" give a 500 error. - If you try to create a card before creating a deck says need to select a deck. People probably will first click on create card first, so suggest have a default deck that you can select right away. - Created a single card and says I have 2 cards when studying. I think counting both sides of the card.

I use Roam [0] with Neuracache [1] to get a similar workflow to what you're describing. My notes are hierarchical and searchable w/ Roam. If I want to create an Anki entry, I add #flashcard anywhere in the note. I use secondary tags and links to further categorize these notes. The next time I import my Roam db to Neuracache all #flashcard entries are synced.

[0] https://roamresearch.com/ [1] https://neuracache.com/

I think once you talk to your potential client base, then you may see that a tool for spaced repetition is in far less demand than ready-made card stacks on specific subjects.

If it's at all possible (and it is in very many cases), the vast majority of people would rather pick up an existing stack and start learning instead of spending time on creating it from scratch. Ultimately the goal is to learn and the simpler the solution, the better it is.

That is, your target audience consists of people who are not interested in pre-made stacks or who can't find any on a subject they are interested in. Try and understand who these people are, imagine their use-cases and then see how to give them enough as a hook, but without being obviously useless out of the box.

One of the options is to not limit card counts in free, but rather offer paid features that would actually justify a monthly charge - cloud storage of their stacks, shared multi-device use, ability to share stacks with other people or to use stacks shared by others (! e.g. in school setups). This sort of thing. Monthly fees should be well justified and fair.

HN might not be your target audience. There are a lot of "power users" here.

As an aside I wrote up why Anki doesn't work for me, perhaps you'll find something there that inspires you.

https://medium.com/@iandanforth/why-anki-doesnt-work-for-me-...