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My biggest side projects come from being almost mad that a certain project does not exist.

For example, I've seen a lot of gif memes on the internet, in which the text was always very badly jumping around and it was very difficult to make them. So I've spent a few hundreds of hours making https://gifmemes.io. (actually as my bc. project :D)

Another project I'm working on right now comes from my frustrations with language learning apps. I don't care about leaderboards/scores/trophies/chatting with ai or whatever. I JUST want to learn enough vocabulary to be able to listen to podcasts and watch Netflix in German. So Anki might be good, right? But it just was so combursome to use, creating the cards or finding good decks. So I'm creating https://vokabeln.io, it's like Anki, but "AI" enhanced. Sentences, word explanations and audios are generated, so adding new words is super easy.

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Interesting; I experienced similar frustrations with various German-teaching apps, but I actually want something even lower friction: I’d like someone else to have selected (e.g.) the 200 most important nouns, the 75 most important verbs, and the 100 most important ‘conversational glue’ words - and sell me that set, ready to go in a flashcard app.

In Vokabeln, the default word list is by the words' frequencies from some corpus and also includes the A1 level from Geothe institute. What I've found funny is that some of the A1 words were not present in the 40 000 word corpus, those were mostly classroom specific.

For spoken language corpuses, movie/tvshow subtitles are a good choice.

Love the app man!!looks amazing Can’t find a preset to set the starting level, is it there? Do you have any offer code i would like to try the full functions for a couple of days

Hi, you can mark all of the words you already know from home tab -> "the icon with two check marks" on top, next to settings.

You can use the app without premium quite nicely. There is actually a bug with word lists and YouTube being locked for freemium (not my intention :D) which will get unlocked in next version.

You can try the code "GUTENTAG" to get a discount, but I'm not sure if it still works. The offers are quite painful to implement.

Okay, gifmemes.io is brilliant. Great work!

Edit: bought the iOS app instantly. My daughter's gonna cringe audibly, heh.

I feel slightly bad when people buy the app. The web app is so much better. I made the app with my brother to teach him programming and capitalism. :D

I actually came here to ask where the web app is and/or why you decided to release on two mobile platforms (neither cheap nor easy), but not for stationary computers.

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