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Re: Show HN: I built a math website the internet loved, I'm back with more features

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Are you interested in using https://vector-graph.com/ to add math diagrams? I created it exactly for this kind of websites and I'd be happy to waiver the fee for your site!

This is good work. Are there examples of sites that have used your library? There weren't any links on your website.

Re: Show HN: I built a math website the internet loved, I'm back with more features

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Are you interested in using https://vector-graph.com/ to add math diagrams? I created it exactly for this kind of websites and I'd be happy to waiver the fee for your site!

This looks really cool. Possible to connect with you to see how we can also use this for https://books.innings2.com/demo . This is a free website for math content from grade 6-10th. This fits with our design philosophy. Want to see if we can make something interactive with vector-graph

That looks very cool! One piece of feedback if I may: I tried the section for “similar triangles” and I got through a few questions (love the content), but then it ends like this:

> So, the two quadrilaterals are not similar. Similarly, you may note that in the two quadrilaterals (a square and a rhombus) of Fig, corresponding sides are in the same ratio, but their corresponding angles are not equal. Again, the two polygons (quadrilaterals) are not similar.

With no button to move forward, and no obvious conclusion text. At the bottom it says “1 of 3”. I’m not sure of there should have been some button letting me continue or if I’m supposed to press the menu button and just go to a different section because I’m done.

Hope this feedback is useful. The site looks great otherwise, and explained very clearly!

Re: Show HN: I built a math website the internet loved, I'm back with more features

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I remember when you first posted this and it is a project I think upon very frequently! It's nice to see you have made further progress — and that there are comments with attempts at solving! Great job. I still find some problems with the navigation of the problems, but I am not even sure where to go to fix that. It has to do with the difficulty of each problem, but also with how large each topic is: algebra encompas…

this comment has my heart, thank you!

i understand that the difficulty metric right now does not do justice to the problem's representation - i will come up with a better solution for this.

on the point of topic granularity - i understand that it feels vague right now but i also wonder what the depth should be. i will do some research on how to solve this better.

lastly, if you are interested, there's also a small community i am making around this - https://t.me/teachyourselfmath

thank you for all the feedback!

Re: Show HN: I built a math website the internet loved, I'm back with more features

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post #32

Are you interested in using https://vector-graph.com/ to add math diagrams? I created it exactly for this kind of websites and I'd be happy to waiver the fee for your site!

This looks really cool. Possible to connect with you to see how we can also use this for https://books.innings2.com/demo . This is a free website for math content from grade 6-10th. This fits with our design philosophy. Want to see if we can make something interactive with vector-graph

Re: the X x Y x Z = 44 prime factorization problem.

If I started with 11 it gave an initial incorrect. It must be best practice to start with the lowest primes then for this sort of problem?

Re: Show HN: I built a math website the internet loved, I'm back with more features

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! I made it 2-3 years ago and IIRC it took me few months of weekend work; the things is that it was "easy" in the beginning, but for each combination of "feature" + "drawing type" things got a lot more complex, specially later on. e.g. when adding the option to shift the grid, or scale it, then I needed to change all of the drawing methods; or when I add a new drawing method, then it needs to work with all the…

How many licenses have you sold?

Unfortunately none. Once I finished the library I realized I was barking at the wrong tree, meaning this would probably be better for high-value high integration business (B2B) rather than to sell to small blogs that have maths in them at B2C prices. But then I also got a job and so while the library works just fine, I haven't put the energy into selling it.

Re: Show HN: I built a math website the internet loved, I'm back with more features

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Are you interested in using https://vector-graph.com/ to add math diagrams? I created it exactly for this kind of websites and I'd be happy to waiver the fee for your site!

I’m building a STEM tutor (https://withmarble.io). Right now it works for programming, but next is Math. I’ll test out your library and if it suits, I’ll buy a license. Thanks for sharing!

Re: Show HN: I built a math website the internet loved, I'm back with more features

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I love it! I also built a math focused website. Schools can use it to host Math-A-Thons, which is a type of fundraiser where students answer math problems online and solicit donations to support their school. I made all the math problems available to play for free outside of the platform, as well as guides that help the students answer the problems:

https://www.forourschool.org/math-games https://www.forourschool.org/math-guides

Yay Math!!

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