gavribirnbaum

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   by gavribirnbaum 6y ago

   Agreed, we want to remove the Hub thing altogether for normal users. We recycled the permissions system from something we were working on last year, and that is why we have it. Hubs work well for schools (e.g. harvard.barbra.io), but doesn&
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   by gavribirnbaum 6y ago

   Hmm yes. Could be good. We are trying to build this "study group template" library. So we are putting the notes and flashcards from our university lectures up for free in the platform. Maybe asking students to do so too for their
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   by gavribirnbaum 6y ago

   Thanks for asking. Yes we are, but we want to always have a super generous free-tier. We were looking into charging educators for using Barbra in the classroom with more features (like tracking, permissions, etc), and also charging power-us
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   by gavribirnbaum 6y ago

   Good idea :D It is something we want to do, but just didn't get the time to do it yet.
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   by gavribirnbaum 6y ago

   You are unsubscribed but Sendgrid sends you to a 404 for some reason, but you won't get more emails.
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   by gavribirnbaum 6y ago

   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
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   by gavribirnbaum 6y ago

   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.
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   by gavribirnbaum 6y ago

   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.
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   by gavribirnbaum 6y ago

   Exactly right. It is not only about sharing a final product, but rather about creating it together. And then competing to see who shares and learns the most.
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    by gavribirnbaum 6y ago

    Totally agree. We are changing that now. Thanks a lot for the feedback. Will rectify this.
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    by gavribirnbaum 6y ago

    Exactly. How great is it to rock to that tune?
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    by gavribirnbaum 6y ago

    It was the name of a great primary school teacher I had. Well. Her name was Barbara, but then we changed it to Barbra to make it sound more like a company name... The good thing is we can rock to the tune of that Barbra Streisand song.
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    by gavribirnbaum 6y ago

    Thanks for letting us know. Weird. Just tested and it worked here. We just scaled up more resources, so maybe it should be better now if you hot reload. Are you logged in? :)
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    by gavribirnbaum 6y ago

    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.
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    by gavribirnbaum 6y ago

    Should be up now.
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    by gavribirnbaum 6y ago

    We should be live again now. Let me know if it works. I would love to get your feedback!
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    by gavribirnbaum 6y ago

    :) thank you. The website should be up now. We were down for a half hour sadly. We managed to scale up our resources now.
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    by gavribirnbaum 6y ago

    Agreed. We will optimize it. The website should be live now again by the way.
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    by gavribirnbaum 6y ago

    We should be online again now. I am sorry for the inconvenience. We hope we can still get your feedback.
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    by gavribirnbaum 6y ago

    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 wa
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    by gavribirnbaum 6y ago

    They are friends of mine, but their feedback is legit :) Maybe we should be more explicit about it?
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    by gavribirnbaum 6y ago

    Hi I'm so sorry. We are fixing it right now. Our DB was down.
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    by gavribirnbaum 6y ago

    Sorry, it is soon back up. We didn't expect this much traffic.
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    by gavribirnbaum 6y ago

    Can you please hot reload? Our server almost crashed. We just scaled it up. Should be back any moment now
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    by gavribirnbaum 6y ago

    Hi guys, Barbra co-founder here too. Would love to hear your thoughts on the tool as well.
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    by gavribirnbaum 7y ago

    No, it is the name of a great primary school teacher I had. But I might mention syllogistic logic from now on ;) Looking forward to your feedback
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    by gavribirnbaum 7y ago

    Thank you! Would love to see your tool. We need to make flashcards awesome cause they are so powerful
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    by gavribirnbaum 7y ago

    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 wa
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    Show HN: I made a site where students can create and share flashcards and notes(barbra.io)

    11 points by gavribirnbaum 7y ago|5 comments
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    by gavribirnbaum 7y ago

    Yeah, I mean ShareDB is not a Database. It is just a JS client. We were thinking of building an actual JSON OT database.