Show HN: I'm 17 and made a tool to help students study smarter

As a previously precocious young teen, I would have agreed with your point but as someone who is now a boring adult I disagree.

Projects are often and will continue to be judged by their marketing. There are many such cases of "I'm X years old and I made Y" posts on Hacker News reaching the front page. As a founder, you should use whatever you can to get eyeballs on your product. As a hacker, you should try to make something you think is cool.

While it is obviously cool to have something novel or technologically interesting to showcase, the value is often less in the actual product and more in the nostalgia and reminder that we too, as boring adults, were once younger hackers.

Let's not be so hard on each other. I think it's a pretty well designed landing page (although the mobile website needs some work in terms of responsiveness.) I don't think this is similar to Anki because there's no spaced repetition or flashcard retrieval involved (from what I could tell).

It does seem like a tool for cheating which is somewhat questionable. I do like the idea of a young hacker today figuring out how to automate their homework, but I think the tool can be a bit more tailored and more ethical if it focused on a specific use case students would equally pay for (ex: AP test prep)

Having keyboard shortcuts could be useful to eliminate some clicks.

For the plans offered, could make it clearer that the premium ones include everything in the cheaper plan + more. Also, providing more details what is included in 'advanced features' and what 'full access' means.

As far as bugs, ran a scan with TripleChecker (https://triplechecker.com/s/704482/lira.study). There are a few error pages accessible not from the homepage but for example via https://lira.study/sign-in after you click upgrade, including https://lira.study/guide.

Some of the footer links (privacy policy etc.) are not on the homepage.

Seeing products like this is just sad.

On a personal level as someone who loves learning, it's sad to see that some people may only value using knowledge to just get to the next spot in life and not really understanding anything for its own sake.

Additionally this is a product that seems to merely extract value and not really give anything back to the world. In fact it damages it.

Shameful

Well, compliments for your work but allow me a note: products, especially modern ones, have a very little shelf life, AI is actually a different kind of search engine, good for some kind of search but easy to allucinate so... It's a dream of some giants to keep ruling the people because they count to be the sole with enough data and resources to train models and probably use training biases to direct popular opinion and believing, it's not a landscape for small actor, with unbearably high costs and probability of very little revenues.

So my suggestion: learn tools that will gives you power, learn LaTeX to write documents well, it's sound banal but consider a thing: in the past with pen and paper the sign of education is good writing, not we write with computers, good typography is the new sign, LaTeX, TiKz/PGF allow to produce beautiful looking docs very few knows how to make. Learn how to OWN your infra, with desktop tools, not clone of some giants web service.

This base will gives you no money at first and maybe not much excitement but gives you the basis very few now have to going anywhere you want in IT. Notes? Notes means text, the most used tool to store, transmit and transform knowledge, so well, notes like Emacs/org-mode/org-roam are "notes", you can insert code listings, evaluating them live, attach files, handling personal finance with PTA tools like BeanCount or Ledger, full-text-search anything, export to LaTeX or a website, trying to compete against these feature is a giant task asking for years of development, trying to make this software for the masses is the way to push again people toward FLOSS because it became "current" again, profiting from the technically more vast, best and free codebase on the planet without selling "Open Source Enterprise" and with instead of on top and against the community.

It's been a long time since I had any school studying to do but just curious: what is the benefit of something that answers questions for you? It seems to me if you don't know the answer you need to review the material not have the answer handed to you.