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Niche: Learning and memorization (flashcards) Monetization: subscription model (premium account) Core Advantage: web-based advanced (supermemo) scheduling algorithm (only study when you need to)
cheers
Also, typo on the first sample flashcard: "It is proven that if you review material to[ extra o] soon and you waste your time, too late and you have to relearn. Intelligent scheduling is about training at the point of forgetting."
thats not right.
2. Even if you don't auto-score them, it'd help to show the answer. It's sometimes hard to remember what you just said when you have to evaluate how well you said it.
3. The "Study" link needs to be more prominent when viewing a deck.
4. How's this better than paper flashcards?
1. We would not like to limit people to purely textual content, as it stands now you are able to include images in both questions and answers. Further to that, it would be hard to rate a person's recall based purely on whether they got the answer right (e.g. it could have been a random guess)
2. Could you elaborate on where you were failing to see the answers, because answers should definitely appear when studying.
3. Definitely something we can address, thanks for raising it.
4. The real gist of the application isn't in the electronic representation of flash cards, but the algorithm behind it that keeps track of how well you're recalling the answers and then let's you know when the best time is to study again. This studying methodology is known as spaced repetition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition)
Again, thank you and everyone else who has taken the time to take a look and comment, your feedback and suggestions are all greatly appreciated.
Same reason I write code instead of just reading language manuals. I used to do the latter, but it doesn't really teach well. Unless you're actively doing stuff and getting feedback on how you did, you're not really learning.
"Personally, I am now more likely to rely on the Internet as a store of facts, like capitals of the world, rather than commit such facts to memory."
One of the reasons we were motivated to build this application was the observation that people were 'outsourcing' their memory, eg. just Googling for information. Outsourcing our memory limits are ability to think deeply.
Why bother remembering words when you can just sound out the word each time? Why bother remembering their meaning when you can just do a search on Google?
"2. We intelligently organize when to study"
the listing you describe is a deck details page not intended for study.
you make a good point regarding the accessibility of the study feature.