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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:

  1. Does "paste notes, get a deck" fit how you actually study, or is making the cards yourself part of the value?
  2. 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.

on June 9, 2026
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    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.

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    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?

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