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I think once you talk to your potential client base, then you may see that a tool for spaced repetition is in far less demand than ready-made card stacks on spe

I think once you talk to your potential client base, then you may see that a tool for spaced repetition is in far less demand than ready-made card stacks on specific subjects. If it's at all possible (and it is in very many cases), the vast majority of people would rather pick up an existing stack and start learning instead of spending time on creating it from scratch. Ultimately the goal is to learn and the simpler the solution, the better it is. That is, your target audience consists of people who are not interested in pre-made stacks or who can't find any on a subject they are interested in. Try and understand who these people are, imagine their use-cases and then see how to give them enough as a hook, but without being obviously useless out of the box. One of the options is to not limit card counts in free, but rather offer paid features that would actually justify a monthly charge - cloud storage of their stacks, shared multi-device use, ability to share stacks with other people or to use stacks shared by others (! e.g. in school setups). This sort of thing. Monthly fees should be well justified and fair.

rytill 6y ago
You described me. What's the best in the market for the user you described?
- andmikey 6y ago
  Basically everything described above is in Anki / AnkiWeb [0]: - Pre-made decks of cards on a range of subjects available on the web ("shared decks"). - Cloud storage of cards (AnkiWeb). - Syncing reviews between platforms (desktop app, phone, web). [0] Full disclosure - I've used Anki daily for over 4 years now on ~30,000 cards, and I haven't tried any other tools.
  - BossingAround 6y ago
    > Pre-made decks of cards on a range of subjects available on the web ("shared decks"). This is of very varied quality though. Some decks are made by university professors that teach a class on an advanced topic, and they are top notch. Other decks are simply wrong, and questionable. This especially applies to language learning, since people creating the decks aren't proficient yet. That's why I loved Wanikani [1]. In the end, it is just Anki with some extra stuff, but you pay for the excellent quality of the content. [1] https://www.wanikani.com/ https://www.wanikani.com/

rytill 6y ago

You described me. What's the best in the market for the user you described?

andmikey 6y ago
Basically everything described above is in Anki / AnkiWeb [0]: - Pre-made decks of cards on a range of subjects available on the web ("shared decks"). - Cloud storage of cards (AnkiWeb). - Syncing reviews between platforms (desktop app, phone, web). [0] Full disclosure - I've used Anki daily for over 4 years now on ~30,000 cards, and I haven't tried any other tools.
- BossingAround 6y ago
  > Pre-made decks of cards on a range of subjects available on the web ("shared decks"). This is of very varied quality though. Some decks are made by university professors that teach a class on an advanced topic, and they are top notch. Other decks are simply wrong, and questionable. This especially applies to language learning, since people creating the decks aren't proficient yet. That's why I loved Wanikani [1]. In the end, it is just Anki with some extra stuff, but you pay for the excellent quality of the content. [1] https://www.wanikani.com/ https://www.wanikani.com/