I built a tool that turns your notes into flashcards (with spaced repetition)
I kept re-reading my notes and forgetting them anyway. Active recall plus spaced repetition is what actually works, but making the flashcards by hand is tedious enough that I never kept it up.
So I built StudyLoop. You paste your notes (a chapter, an article, lecture notes, whatever) and it writes clean question/answer flashcards for you. Then you study them with spaced repetition built in, so each card comes back right around when you'd start to forget it.
Honest status: it's live, it works, and it has zero users so far. I'm alright at building and bad at distribution, which is most of why I'm posting here.
Two things I'd genuinely like your take on:
- Does "paste notes, get a deck" fit how you actually study, or is making the cards yourself part of the value?
- For anyone who's launched a study or education tool, what got you your first handful of users?
Free to try, no card needed, nothing to install: https://studyloop-jelonmans-projects.vercel.app
Tear it apart. I'd rather hear why it won't work now than in a month.
The thing I’d be careful with is assuming this is mainly a distribution problem.
“Paste notes, get flashcards” is useful, but the harder question is who feels the pain sharply enough to care right now, because different study situations behave very differently.
Someone cramming for an exam, someone learning technical material, and someone trying to retain books probably value different things.
Feels like the first real decision is less about channels and more about which learning moment StudyLoop should own first.
Fair, and cramming, technical learning and long-term retention really do want different things. A crammer wants coverage before Friday. Someone learning a language wants the schedule to survive six months. I've been building for both and therefore for neither.
The first decision being which learning moment to own rather than which channel to use is the correction I needed.
Hey!, What is the best use case you use it for? And It would be cool if anyone could share a collection of flashcards in a some sort of public link, maybe that could give you some traction?
The use case it's genuinely best at is turning a messy set of lecture notes or a PDF into a review schedule without you having to write the cards yourself. That's the bit people actually avoid doing.
Public shareable decks is a good shout, mostly because a shared deck is a reason to send someone a link, which nothing else in the product currently is. Adding it to the list.