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Show HN: Spaced Repetition System for iOS

108 pointsby jmcannonalmost 8 years ago

27 comments

jmcannonalmost 8 years ago
Hi HN! I first posted CleverDeck about 2.5 years ago and received a lot of support and encouragement from the community. Since then, I&#x27;ve built it out into a more general purpose spaced repetition system and added seven new 3000-word frequency lists for major languages. I launched the big update today (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cleverdeck.com&#x2F;blog" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cleverdeck.com&#x2F;blog</a>) and would love to once again submit it here for feedback. Cheers!
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scentedmeatalmost 8 years ago
I really dislike the &#x27;per month&#x27; monetization. I would rather be able to buy the decks that I&#x27;m interested in.
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mdeverealmost 8 years ago
Hi. I actually had it in mind to create something like this myself -- a mobile-first, nicer-designed version of Anki. But it looks like you already started on this, 2.5 years ago. Always the way..<p>It definitely looks nicer than Anki. It&#x27;s also better for creating simple cards, something which I haven&#x27;t really been able to do on the Anki app. The workflow for adding a new card is a great experience. I <i>do</i> think that creating my own cards is an important part of the memorisation process. I&#x27;ve downloaded pre-made cards before, but the stuff I use in conversation is almost always the stuff where I&#x27;ve created the card. Those are the words&#x2F;phrases that leap to mind.<p>One issue - my recorded audio didn&#x27;t play when I reviewed the card (either on the front side or the back side). Maybe a bug?<p>Based on just 5 minutes of experimentation, I expect that this will become my &quot;on the go&quot; card creator, while I&#x27;ll keep Anki around for the time being because, when I create cards on my laptop, I can import Forvo pronunciations etc.<p>Have you thought about how to monetise this?
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lkjaeroalmost 8 years ago
Love the idea! Is there any way to import existing Anki decks? I don&#x27;t want to start my learning from scratch.
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epsalmost 8 years ago
Do I understand correctly that paid subscription effectively removes 100 card limit? The description on the Settings page says something about &quot;unlimited access to all content,&quot; but I can&#x27;t seem to understand what this means exactly.<p>PS. I&#x27;m probably not the only one who stuffs his wallet deeper in the pocket upon seeing an &quot;auto-renewable subscription.&quot; I would strongly encourage you to add non-subscription way for people to give you some money. I like what you made, it&#x27;s useful and I&#x27;d like to support you, but no way in hell I&#x27;m entering a recurrent $ committment with a vendor of any app that I may or may not be using few weeks from now.
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xspadealmost 8 years ago
Great work, I&#x27;ve been searching for something like this for a while, and never really liked the UX for Anki. I love the UX, very clean and easy to use. Tutorial &#x2F; intro was the perfect length, gave me a quick run down on how to use it without taking too much time.<p>I almost skipped over this because I didn&#x27;t know what &quot;spaced repetition system&quot; was. My only suggestion is to market it around what benefit the user will get out of it, and not SRS &#x2F; or the algorithm behind it.
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dannyhalmost 8 years ago
Spaced repetition is why drip marketing works. Definitely the way to go when building memory.
tsukaisutealmost 8 years ago
Just downloaded.<p>Quick feedback: flicking away a card takes too long (vertical distance) of a flick. I have to carefully drag it from top to bottom for the card to flick away. Wish it was more sensitive. Perhaps 30% of the screen height is enough of a threshold. Otherwise, thank you. Going to be using this!
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misiti3780almost 8 years ago
I love spaced repetition but serious question - what can you give me that Anki doesnt. Yes, I know Anki&#x27;s interface is ugly but it is open source so I can actually change things and know how the spacing algorithm works. etc.
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chrischenalmost 8 years ago
The UI is great andI love that each one actually has example sentences, but the text isn&#x27;t selectable and you can&#x27;t tap to get the definition of other words in the example sentences.
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yuharaknalmost 8 years ago
The great thing for me is that there are great materials for lesser studied languages - I&#x27;ve used it for both Turkish and Persian, which ive really struggled to find.
headconnectalmost 8 years ago
Actually really quite well done, got it after the first posting, and quite enjoyed using it! Still do from time to time, the interface is seriously meditative :)
nevesalmost 8 years ago
Why it is better than other options, like Anki?
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laixeralmost 8 years ago
Looks pretty good (coming from a Anki user).<p>One piece of feedback: The toolbar UX in the deck is confusing as it&#x27;s inconsistent with every other iOS app. The &#x27;back&#x27; button should be on the left and the &#x27;options&#x27; button needs to be on the right.
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bkoalmost 8 years ago
How much effort is it to add a new language? My wife is trying to learn Serbian using spaced repetition and had an app to create her own flash cards with her own pictures and sounds, but it&#x27;s very laborious
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glhaynesalmost 8 years ago
<i>CleverDeck</i><p><i>Spaced repetition system for iOS</i><p>Might be effective to have &quot;memory&quot; in there somewhere?<p>Also, somehow the first 3&#x2F;4s of the linked page (before scrolling) put me in the frame of &quot;this product is primarily about making my own decks&quot;.
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xor1almost 8 years ago
This looks really cool, I was just thinking earlier today that I need to set up some Anki decks.<p>I just have one question: Do you gain any rights to user-made decks? Ownership or usage rights or otherwise.
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eridiusalmost 8 years ago
This looks pretty good, but I really wish you had support for Korean.
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footaalmost 8 years ago
I&#x27;m on an Android phone in an airport, so no chance to check it out, but what kind of tech stack are you using?
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sprtalmost 8 years ago
Quizlet seems to be doing the same thing and already has a somewhat large community behind it.
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tardo99almost 8 years ago
Tips on using it if you already have a vocab of 2000 or 3000 words in a target language?
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sbee3almost 8 years ago
Great App! Could you provide APIs for people to create Deck easier and quicker? Thanks!
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focuseralmost 8 years ago
I wonder if there&#x27;s a way to provide custom content? Is there an API or something?
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zaphoydalmost 8 years ago
Any plans to support iPads?
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fao_almost 8 years ago
I don&#x27;t have iOS, but... what benefits does this have over Anki?
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sbee3almost 8 years ago
Are decks created by user stored local or remote? Thanks!
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cakedoggiealmost 8 years ago
Um, so we can advertise our apps on hackernews now? Cool.
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