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Nice! This is a fun one!

Give https://typequicker.com a try as well. For typing code practice, try typequicker.com. Supports most programming languages, and you can create your own custom snippets as well

https://typequicker.com

Building a typing application that helps you quickly learn and improve your typing.

We believe everyone can type at 80wpm or more. It just takes a good tool and a couple months of consistent practice

Learning something new often can take as little 10-15 minutes a day of focused time. If you do it consistently, it becomes easier and easier to maintain, and it starts to require less and less mental capacity to start

You can learn new things. Pixel art, touch typing, 3d modelling, music, calligraphy, wood working, knitting, a language. Whatever is practical and calls to you, you can learn.

shameless plug: if you are interested in learning touch typing, i built a data driven touch typing application:

https://typequicker.com

it started as a side project (combined wanting to learn typing with my desire to build a side business while working at amazon. working on this (almost) full time now

I was just asking on the Go subreddit for suggestions and River came up.

My only hesitation is that many features are locked behind Pro.

I normally only settle for completely open source tools that I can self host and try to avoid these “partially” open tools.

For now, going to try to migrate my current stack to RabbitMQ. Seems like a very mature and completely open source tool.

River does look cool but I’m not a fan of vendor lock in. Will always avoid when possible

Building the most effective typing application.

https://typequicker.com

Building https://typequicker.com

An AI first typing application.

I think anyone can learn touch typing and potentially 2x their typing speed.

We make typing practice engaging and data driven.

SEO, Reddit and Paid ads probably

I think most users of websites like reddit, x, and yes even HN don't realize how much traffic is inorganic.

Came here to say this - I have always been extremely cautious and assumed most things online were just marketing tactics. But I never realize how far and how strategic some of these campaigns are.

I’ve recently started really getting my hands dirty with marketing for an app I’m building and the things I’ve learned in the past year have made me questions many of my views on things. At some point you realize that it’s all marketing or some form of effort to exert influence.

A good book somewhat related to this is Attention Merchants

Is this similar to what Infisical does?

TypeQuicker (https://typequicker.com) - personalized typing app.

I believe anyone can learn to type fast - I think it just takes the right tools to make it interesting enough for the users to use consistently

It's an interactive world - where games can be built by anyone (I personally know/met some of the devs) and all the games have some randomization/gambling mechanics involved. Lootboxes is just one tiny example. Infinite novely - there's literally infinite number of games one can play.

I don't have time right now to provide a full/quality answer with more examples - you can do a bit of seraching online to learn more.

Also from personal expeirence as well (from family and friends). When their kids comeover they have tiktok on their phone and roblox on their laptop

Oh man if they think YouTube and Instagram are addicting they should see what Roblox does lol

Should you focus on SEO in the early days of your startup? Probably not

I would completely disagree with this (product dependent).

If your product is a consumer app - I would highly prioritize and understand SEO before even having a product complete. Develop a good understanding of SEO around your product domain and niche.

If it’s a B2B - then yes, I would agree.

Absolutely!

Focusing on just English for now but hoping to add Spanish, French and a few other locales.

Regarding layouts: we already support;

- QWERTZ (German layout) - Qwerty - Dvorak - Colemak

This includes the visual guide and the hand positioning.

Adding more soon! But these have been the most requested

Thanks!

Good point - yeah, the idea is that it can help users stop looking down at the keyboards. It serves as a visual guide for how to position there hands correctly using the standard “touch typing” positioning.

Thanks for mentioning it was confusing - I’ll add a short Driver.js walkthrough that explains what it’s for

Thank!

1 Month instead of "Monthly" as it's a subscription and you're not really purchasing a "one month pass", correct?

Goo point - I have monthly/annually below but it might be confusing still. I’ll update to clarify. Thanks

Some of these sites - wow. I literally can’t fall asleep right now (reading this in bed) scrolling through all these. So many good resources. Thank you for sharing. This is why I love HN

TypeQuicker (https://typequicker.com) - personalized and engaging typing application.

Anyone can learn to type fast - I think it just takes the right tools to make it interesting enough for the users to use daily

I share this sentiment.

In general - I don’t know if it’s a coincidence but here on HN for example, I’ve noticed an increasing amount of comments and posts emphasizing the narrative of how “well- intended” Anthropic is.

Oh there’s a popular Portuguese song call Saudede:

https://youtu.be/eQul-rkcGPQ

Exactly

Building https://typequicker.com

We’re aiming to build the best typing application; personalized to every users typing habits.

Typing is one of the most important hard skills today and yet most education systems skip it.

Most of our customers are adults who always wanted to type but can’t find the time. We make it faster to learn and improve by focusing around the user’s weak points (with our features like SmartPractice and TargetPractice)

Building TypeQuicker: https://typequicker.com

Started as a side project but has become my full time focus since leaving a FAANG job ~6months ago

So far we've added:

- Code typing practice with any language: https://typequicker.com/code-typing-practice - SmartPractice: analyzes your history stats to find weak areas and generates exercises for them: https://typequicker.com/app/text - TargetPractice: lets you interact with any of your stats; for example, clicking on a certain bigram that you typed slowly will create a natural practice text that targets that two character sequence - TypeAnything: let you create a typing exercise about anything; AI for typing pretty much - Advanced stas: we measure every character, 2,3 charcter sequences (delay to click in ms), every word, and even breakdown speed/accuracy per finger - Real-time hand/finger indicators: show you exactly where to place your fingers to type based on standard touch typing practices - Keyboards supported: QWERTY, QWERTZ (German keyboard) ISO, British ISO (adding Dvorak and Colemak soo).

This is the second time I’m hearing of Nushell.

I wanted to try it the first time I heard about it but completely slipped my mind so this is a good reminder.

Hey - this sounds like really interesting set-up!

Would you be open to providing more details. Would love to hear more, your workflows, etc.

“We rewrote it in Rust so you have to upvote it”

I spit out my coffee laughing lol

Wow - had no idea this was possible!

That’s awesome. Going to add this change to my Kobo - I already self host a bunch of stuff on a Pi, will add Calibre to the list

I wish this was the case but I have found that almost any success in my life took enormous amounts of effort.

However, to some extent I do agree. For example, when learning to play the guitar, it’s important to learn to exert just the right amount of effort to place on the strings. When typing on a keyboard, I have a habit of pressing way too hard and I realized this lead to a lot of hand pain.

So saying zero effort might be an incorrect title - maybe saying “using just the right amount of effort” would be more accurate

Hey - thanks for trying it out :)

That's a good point - we actually do have keyboard shortcuts but their discovery is definitely lacking! Using the return key as the default seems more intuitive - thanks for the suggestion!

I’ve been building a type of an educational app for the last 6 months.

Spent 6 months building the product. Now I’m focusing on marketing and branding.

I’ve spent last few weeks studying other successful educational products.

And so far, from my research, pretty much every single one of these apps/sites prioritized making the user “feel good” about learning rather than actually learning.

And unfortunately, this is what the users want. They want to feel good about learning.

All the successful education sites employ these mechanisms that you’re intending to avoid. I wanted to avoid using these as well - but I just don’t see another way. I’ve even had users explicitly ask me to add milestones, streaks, etc to motivate them.

Reality is - most people who really want to study or learn anything, can do so without an app. Even a book from a library will do. But it requires tremendous consistency, effort and time. Apps are way easier and make the user feel good - there’s still learning being done, don’t get me wrong. But user feeling good about it is what keeps them coming back.

Edit: I’ve also studied many of their ads. Often times on places like TikTok, Instagram, etc their ads are what I would call “intelligence porn”. They get you excited about being more intelligent, investing in yourself, intelligence eliticism, etc. These were a common ad strategy that I have discovered so far.

Some apps literally ran ads with text: “become dangerously intelligent” text and had the song from the show Succession play with images of famous researchers and scientists changing quickly. (Newton, Einstein, etc). Stuff like this cracked me up tbh lol. But apparently it works