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I used to think that making money was extremely easy. You can make an App, a website, a YouTube channel, etc. How absolutely naive I was. Turns out it's very ha

I used to think that making money was extremely easy. You can make an App, a website, a YouTube channel, etc. How absolutely naive I was. Turns out it's very hard to convince people to pay you. I adopted a different strategy later on. I try to make things that I use myself. So if it turns out no one else uses it, at least my effort doesn't go to waste. My Android App is now sitting at 10+ downloads but I made peace with it fairly easily since I use the App myself twice a day.

choicenotchance 8y ago
What's the app? I wanna try it just out of curiosity.
bmc7505 8y ago
What is the app?
- vagab0nd 8y ago
  It's a very simple App which helps you memorize and learn items using Spaced Repetition. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nerfsoftware.memrep&hl=en_US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nerfsoftwa...
  - wuyuzhe 8y ago
    Your app gets me figuring that it would be nice for a dictionary app to have a feature that, after you look up some word a second time (indicating it's not a rare one), adds it to the "to memorize" list and trigger the notification mechanism you wrote. Also wondering if support for memorizing equations would be straightforward.
    - vagab0nd 8y ago
      Thanks for your feedback. I would say that for the first use case, unless the "memorizing" feature is built in to the dictionary app, it's hard to do it automatically. You could use the OS's "Share" feature to manually add the word to the memory app. I'm actually looking into displaying math equations. There are libraries out there so should be pretty straightforward.
      - wuyuzhe 8y ago
        Thanks for your opinion on this. I use Mac's built-in dictionary quite often. Guess the system provides some way to catch the look-up event, though then I also need to think about the notification part. Anyways spaced repetition sounds like a simple idea that could do the trick. The point of doing it automatically in the vocab learning (for foreign languages) case is so that you don't need to decide whether you've search a word before.
  - choicenotchance 8y ago
    On my Xiaomi device, I don't get any notifications

choicenotchance 8y ago

What's the app? I wanna try it just out of curiosity.

bmc7505 8y ago

What is the app?

vagab0nd 8y ago
It's a very simple App which helps you memorize and learn items using Spaced Repetition. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nerfsoftware.memrep&hl=en_US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nerfsoftwa...
- wuyuzhe 8y ago
  Your app gets me figuring that it would be nice for a dictionary app to have a feature that, after you look up some word a second time (indicating it's not a rare one), adds it to the "to memorize" list and trigger the notification mechanism you wrote. Also wondering if support for memorizing equations would be straightforward.
  - vagab0nd 8y ago
    Thanks for your feedback. I would say that for the first use case, unless the "memorizing" feature is built in to the dictionary app, it's hard to do it automatically. You could use the OS's "Share" feature to manually add the word to the memory app. I'm actually looking into displaying math equations. There are libraries out there so should be pretty straightforward.
    - wuyuzhe 8y ago
      Thanks for your opinion on this. I use Mac's built-in dictionary quite often. Guess the system provides some way to catch the look-up event, though then I also need to think about the notification part. Anyways spaced repetition sounds like a simple idea that could do the trick. The point of doing it automatically in the vocab learning (for foreign languages) case is so that you don't need to decide whether you've search a word before.
- choicenotchance 8y ago
  On my Xiaomi device, I don't get any notifications