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

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Post by gavribirnbaum »

danielskogly wrote: post #40
gavribirnbaum wrote: post #24

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We should be live again now. Let me know if it works. I would love to get your feedback!

You still have GTM, Hotjar and Fullstory included by default, without opt-in and no way to opt out. This significantly reduces your trustworthiness for me, as well as my willingness to try out or recommend to others what looks like a pretty useful tool. Consider if you really need all that analytics, and whether it's worth the invasiveness (edit: and GDPR breach, you being located in Germany). Page hits, sign ups, cr…

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.

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

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Post by danielskogly »

EricMeier wrote: post #2

Hi 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...

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

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Post by andai »

gavribirnbaum wrote: post #20
NilsIRL wrote: post #19

Similarly to many here, I can't get the website to work, but I'll still ask a question: How is this different than Quizlet and Anki? (Obviously with Anki sharing isn't as straightforward but is possible (there's even a website hosting Anki flashcard sets))

We are live again finally. Sorry for the hiccup. In Barbra the main difference is that you can take notes and have your flashcards in one place. I noticed I often had to transfer my class notes from Evernote and copy them into Anki. That was a huge hassle. Another point is that in Barbra sharing flashcards and notes is the default. You invite people, set goals together, and then collaborate on everything. I noticed w…

This sounds great! That always bugged me about Anki. I knew it could be done so much more conveniently.

I would suggest redoing the intro video, with better acoustics, less "umm" and "so anyway...". The site and product look really polished so it kinda sticks out.

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

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Post by danielskogly »

gavribirnbaum wrote: post #41
danielskogly wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You still have GTM, Hotjar and Fullstory included by default, without opt-in and no way to opt out. This significantly reduces your trustworthiness for me, as well as my willingness to try out or recommend to others what looks like a pretty useful tool. Consider if you really need all that analytics, and whether it's worth the invasiveness (edit: and GDPR breach, you being located in Germany). Page hits, sign ups, cr…

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-...

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

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Post by gavribirnbaum »

andai wrote: post #43
gavribirnbaum wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are live again finally. Sorry for the hiccup. In Barbra the main difference is that you can take notes and have your flashcards in one place. I noticed I often had to transfer my class notes from Evernote and copy them into Anki. That was a huge hassle. Another point is that in Barbra sharing flashcards and notes is the default. You invite people, set goals together, and then collaborate on everything. I noticed w…

This sounds great! That always bugged me about Anki. I knew it could be done so much more conveniently. I would suggest redoing the intro video, with better acoustics, less "umm" and "so anyway...". The site and product look really polished so it kinda sticks out.

Aw thanks. Hope Barbra can give you that convenience.

We are recording a new video right now. That one we just made for our YC application.

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

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Post by EricMeier »

Dowwie wrote: post #38
gavribirnbaum wrote: post #28

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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.

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.

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

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Post by goblin89 »

andai wrote: post #43
gavribirnbaum wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are live again finally. Sorry for the hiccup. In Barbra the main difference is that you can take notes and have your flashcards in one place. I noticed I often had to transfer my class notes from Evernote and copy them into Anki. That was a huge hassle. Another point is that in Barbra sharing flashcards and notes is the default. You invite people, set goals together, and then collaborate on everything. I noticed w…

This sounds great! That always bugged me about Anki. I knew it could be done so much more conveniently. I would suggest redoing the intro video, with better acoustics, less "umm" and "so anyway...". The site and product look really polished so it kinda sticks out.

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/pod/Anki::Import

[2] https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/

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

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Post by gavribirnbaum »

goblin89 wrote: post #47
andai wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This sounds great! That always bugged me about Anki. I knew it could be done so much more conveniently. I would suggest redoing the intro video, with better acoustics, less "umm" and "so anyway...". The site and product look really polished so it kinda sticks out.

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.

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