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mvind

176 karma · joined August 22, 2019

Professional quant trader, amateur in pretty much everything else.
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mvind··on Show HN: Polotno Studio – Canva-like design editor, without signups or ads
Why would I ever use this over figma?
mvind··on Ask HN: Best thing you bought in 2020
Herman miller aeron office chair. Only downside is now I can't sit in cheap office chairs without discomfort..
mvind··on Ask HN: How did you find what you were good at?
To find the thing which you are good at - is to find the thing which every single amount effort feels well spent even when disregarding any progress.
mvind··on Show HN: Beating the Markets with Artificial Intelligence Driven Portfolios
What statistical tests have you done to back up the claim "the ranking engine has been trained on a large amount of data and has high predictive power"?

I'm having trouble connecting predictive AI models on highly biased portfolios only optimized on historical data to live high risk-adjusted returns and diversified portfolios.

Do you have any numbers for the volatility of your portfolios and/or downside risks?

mvind··on Ask HN: What do you want to build in 2021?
I want to continue building my social collaborative flashcard platform. I spent my entire summer building out the basic functionality and very low level sharing capabilities.

I still dream of a platform where whenever I want to pick up a new subject/book/idea/ideology/[thing] I can search for a flashcard deck where I can continuously learn and add new flashcards for other people to use.

mvind··on Ask HN: What is your biggest problem?
Lack of time. Taking graduate courses in mathematics and economics, working part time in a bank, working out 3-4 times a week, spending time with my family (transport time). I don't really have time to pursue those odd ideas or just really dive deep into a new hobby or subject.

I guess you have to pay price for everything - so maybe in the future I will change my priorities.

mvind··on Ask HN: Side-project that became your full-time job?
I'm a university student with a flashcard startup / project called memordo [1]. I have only ever had 2 customers subscribed for 1 month each. Right now I'm the only paying customer! but at least I'm a happy customer :-)

[1] https://memordo.com

mvind··on Show HN: Bootstrap icons as Vue components
Why is this better than using the bootstrap icons from vue-bootstrap?
mvind··on Habitica – A gamified habit-building and productivity app
It is weird how we have normalized the fact we need an app to remind us to drink water, or work for one hour. I don't see how this can help one make substantial and long changes to one's life and habits.
mvind··on You Should Be Earning Money Trading Options. Here’s How.
This seems like an extremely poor risk-adjusted strategy compared to just throwing your money into an etf index.
mvind··on Show HN: I built a collaborative flashcard tool
Thanks for letting me know. Since then I have built major changes to the design and functionality so I thought It was ok.
mvind··on Show HN: I built a collaborative flashcard tool
Creator here. As a University student I was struggling a lot with the huge amount of information I needed to remember for my courses. I started using spaced repetition (Anki) and it worked great! I enthusiastically shared this method with my family but they got overwhelmed by the complexity of the Anki interface and all the options. I wanted to change that. So I built memordo. I focused on creating a minimalist but still productive interface for creating memory cards that supports image, latex, code and clozes. I have also built a sharing feature when users can share their decks and collaborate on building decks together.

I have already received some feedback from the HN community and I would love to hear what you guys think again.

Thanks for reading!

mvind··on Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
Creator here. As a University student I was struggling a lot with the huge amount of information I needed to remember for my courses. I started using spaced repetition (Anki) and it worked great! I enthusiastically shared this method with my family but they got overwhelmed by the complexity of the Anki interface and all the options. I wanted to change that. So I built memordo. I focused on creating a minimalist but still productive interface for creating memory cards that supports image, latex, code and clozes.

I have already received some feedback from the HN community and I would to hear what you guys think again. Your feedback has proven invaluable as I have already gotten paid users onboard.

Thanks for reading!

mvind··on Show HN: I built a cloud based spaced repetition tool
Creator here. As a University student I was struggling a lot with the huge amount of information I needed to remember for my courses. I started using spaced repetition (Anki) and it worked great! I enthusiastically shared this method with my family but they got overwhelmed by the complexity of the Anki interface and all the options. I wanted to change that.

So I built memordo. I focused on creating a minimalist but still productive interface for creating memory cards that supports image, latex, code and clozes.

I have already received some feedback from the HN community and I would to hear what you guys think again. Your feedback has proven invaluable as I have already gotten paid users onboard.

Thanks for reading!

mvind··on Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
Thank you so much for your valuable feedback! This was a proof of concept of the idea of creating cards through a chrome extension. There is still a lot of crucial features missing, and I know that now. But from my experience Anki is not an easy tool to use for non-technical users, so the aim for memordo is to have the easability of quizlet but the functionality of anki.
mvind··on Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
Thanks for insight, i'll definitely use it! It is a valid point about your English course but myself I don't use SRS for language learning I use it for mathematics, cs, and economics, so that was why I implemented latex and codeblocks. But I think some sort of predefined/shareable deck solution could solve this problem.
mvind··on Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
Thank you! I have fixed it now :)
mvind··on Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
Hi. I'm very sorry but I configured the email wrong, so I did not receive your email. Could you please try to send it again?
mvind··on Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
Thanks. I definitely have to iterate on the frontend design, I still have a lot to learn. But I agree on your picture that I need to de-clutter the frontpage. Thanks for your feedback!
mvind··on Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
Hi. Thank you such much for your feedback! I have noted all of your valuable points down. Thanks for taking the time!
mvind··on Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
Thanks for your feedback, very valuable! I'm very much still at the early stages of this project, I decided to go public to get feedback as soon as you could add a card from the chrome extension and then study it.

There is no support for exporting cards, but I have noted it and will consider it in the future. Thanks again for your comment!

mvind··on Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
This is a valid point. What do you think would be respectable amount of free cards? - or is having a card limit even the right way to of differentiate between free and premium?

Very interested in hearing your points - i'm totally new to this.

mvind··on Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
Thanks for spotting the typo! I have fixed it now.
mvind··on Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
Hi. Thanks for your valuable observation - I have fixed it now :-)
mvind··on Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
Thanks for your thoughts and very valuable nitpick (I have fixed it now). I definitely agree that keyboard controls are very essential to the card making process, and I will look into that!
mvind··on Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
Hey man thanks! still a lot of learning to be done on the frontend..
mvind··on Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
Yes, that is a valid point! From my experience the card creating process is also really valuable and forces you to distill the information down to something concrete.

But I totally get you, that for something like learning a language it would be nice to have some predefined decks.

mvind··on Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
Creator here. As a University student I was struggling a lot with the huge amount of information I needed to remember for my courses. I started using spaced repetition (Anki) and it worked great! I enthusiastically shared this method with my family but they got overwhelmed by the complexity of the Anki interface and all the options. I wanted to change that.

So I built memordo. I focused on creating a minimalist but still productive interface for creating memory cards that supports image, latex, code and clozes. I also built a chrome extension so you can add memory cards instantly whether you are reading pdfs or wikipedia.

I learned so much coding, like rendering latex instantly in a chrome extension, or the painful complexity of wysiwyg editors. I ended up using a vue based framework called tiptap. It works as a wrapper on top of prosemirror. (https://github.com/ueberdosis/tiptap...)

Anyways, I would love to hear what you guys think about this project!

mvind··on Ask HN: What Is the Best/Worst Purchase You Have Made During the Quarantine?
Found a great deal on a herman miller aeron. No more back pain, it's great!
mvind··on Ask HN: How many hours do you work?
I'm a student having summer holiday. Right now I'm programming 10-12 hours every day trying to launch a MVP before I start Uni in September. I basically only take time off if I have to visit family or friends.
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