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Hi everyone,

A few years ago I wanted to learn Georgian. It was hard to find good resources for it. That's normal for most languages. Materials are dependant on learner and speaker count. So the languages with the least of it are the ones where you don’t get good resources if any.

I'm building an app where anyone can make a course. You write lessons, explain the grammar, bring in your own audio and images and build exercises: multiple choice, matching, fill in the blank, word order, listening, speaking. A course is a folder on your own computer saved in JSON format. Even if I stop working on this, the courses should still be portable. Since the course is just a folder with json files, it can be hosted in any version control repo and collaborated upon.

People are currently writing courses in it for Okinawan, Italian and Portuguese.

To be straight: the editor works and people are using it. The learner app you'd actually study from doesn't exist yet. So there's nothing here for you to learn from today. I’m not looking for free labour to make the courses. However come join the discord if you want to see this being built in public. I will be taking feedback for the learner app. And you would get alpha access if you join.

I have been working on Asakiri for 1.5 years. And the previous version had courses hosted on a database. That model does not work. What I have learnt during this time is how course creation works. The challenges associated with a course, how the course data format should be so that it stays portable and much more.

Download the desktop app(Mac, Windows & Linux) at https://asakiri.com or come join us on discord.

Some common questions which might come up:

How will you ensure quality of the courses? That’s tricky. Asakiri Studio is just a tool to make the course. People own the course and license and share it however they want. But for the asakiri learner app, we will try to vet the courses so only those with the best quality passes the review. However this can only work for languages with lot of speakers. For a language like Ainu, it would be hard to “vet” the course.

When will the learner app be available? The course data architecture is still in beta so I’d first like to standardise and finalise the data structure. This will only be updated based on feedback from the course creators. Which there are. But I would like to defer the learner app once this is finalised. However if someone wants to build their own learner app, you can check the docs. https://docs.asakiri.com If I have to give a deadline, I would say the learner app alpha will be in 1.5-2 months. (Based on my previous app making experience)

Why not Anki? Anki is an amazing tool but it is not meant for a full fledged course.

If you have any questions, let me know and I'll try my best to answer them.

If you don't know, duolingo used to have community course contributors. People could also request languages that they wanted to be added. This was shut down few years ago. This is an attempt to close that gap. This is a desktop app but build in tauri and react. So I think it's still relevant to webdev. In an earlier different version of the platform, people had started creating courses in okinawan, mirandese and Picard. The course is just a directory on your device. With json files and assets in the folder for the course structure. The lessons itself may be a rich media content block, or one of 7 types of exercises. Right now people have started making courses for Italian and Portuguese. Please check it out at asakiri.com and if you have any feedback or questions, let me know. Docs for the course project structure - https://docs.asakiri.com

I think the platform is less important than the course data structure so I am trying to finalise it based on feedback from course creators.

(No data is collected. Everything stays local and on device. There are no accounts, no subscriptions. Everything is open)

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Hi guys,

I have been working on a language course creation platform for more than a year. But recently I have made the new version open source. The courses created on the desktop app are independent of it. They are saved locally in json format with assets also in a folder. This means that the course can be hosted on a git repo like GitHub. The course contributors can set any license they want on the course. This is just a tool to create the course. There will be a learner app soon.

The course format itself can be rich text or 7 types of exercises. It follows a content first architecture. Which I won't bore people with but it means you define a table like "Vocab" once, fill it with data, then reuse it around the course lessons.

I had been getting feedback from a person on blue sky who was interested in making a Cornish course but I lost touch when I deleted my account. So I may be an outsider, but I am interested in language revitalisation efforts. So if any of you are interested in giving this a shot, get the desktop app from asakiri.com (Available for macOS, Windows and Linux) or come join a small community on discord

On the course settings you can also set your patreon and add sponsor links if you get any sponsors for the language course. These will be shown in the learner app when someone starts this course. I am hoping course contributors can get sponsored for their courses. But I have other plans too.

Joining now means I will be very receptive to feedback and the apps will be made according to your requirements.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Hi everyone,

A few years ago I wanted to learn Georgian. It was hard to find good resources for it. That's normal for most languages. Materials are dependant on learner count. So the languages with the least of it are the ones where you don’t get good resources if any.

I'm building an app where anyone can make a course. You write lessons, explain the grammar, bring in your own audio and images, and build exercises: multiple choice, matching, fill in the blank, word order, listening, speaking. A course is a folder on your own computer saved in JSON format. Even if I stop working on this, the courses will still be portable. Since the course is just a folder with json files, it can be hosted in any version control repo and collaborated upon.

People are currently making courses in it for Okinawan, Italian and Portuguese.

To be straight: the editor works and people are using it. The learner app you'd actually study from doesn't exist yet. So there's nothing here for you to learn from today. I’m not looking for free labour to make the courses. However come join the discord if you want to see this being built in public. I will be taking feedback for the learner app. And you would get alpha access if you join.

I have been working on Asakiri for 1.5 years. And the previous version had courses hosted on a database. That model does not work. What I have learnt during this time is how course creation works. The challenges associated with a course, how the course data format should be so that it stays portable and much more.

Download the desktop app at asakiri.com or come join us on discord.

I've been working on Asakiri Studio. A desktop app for making duolingo like language courses.

Everything lives in a folder on your machine. No account, no cloud, no sync. Courses can then be hosted as a git repo, collaborated on and get version control.

It's in alpha and very very very early, but it's usable. Some people are interested in making courses for Italian, Portuguese, Okinawan and Finnish.

https://asakiri.com

https://docs.asakiri.com

I've been making the marketing sites for my apps with astro for 3 years and it's lovely. I never get tired of it. There is no competition for astro for landing pages.

Also flairs don't work?

I’ve been building a to do app called Ikoi for the last 3 months.

The basic idea is that “how difficult is this task?” and “can I handle it today?” are different questions.

Every task can have an energy level: Zombie, Okay, or Hyper, plus an effort cost in spoons. You set your current energy and a daily spoon budget. If you’re in Zombie mode, the harder tasks stay out of the Focus rotation. If you’ve used your spoons for the day, the smart reminders stop.

Tasks can also have a deliberately tiny first step. So “cancel unused subscription” becomes “open the account settings page.” The original task still exists. You just get a less awful place to enter it.

The stranger features are probably the ones that explain the app best:

• Leave a task untouched for a week and it starts fading instead of becoming a permanent red warning. Editing or acting on it brings it back. With optional AI, it can suggest an easier re-entry step.
• Focus mode shows one task at a time. Swipe to pass, choose “Not today” to reschedule it, or double-tap to finish. There’s a timer, background music, and a small pixel companion.
• There’s an Overwhelm button that temporarily replaces the entire app with a breathing animation and a 5-4-3-2-1 grounding exercise. There may also be a hidden cat at the end.
• Smart reminders learn when you usually complete things. They spread notifications apart, avoid tasks above your current energy, respect your remaining spoons, and back off if you keep ignoring them.
• Focus Fam is live body doubling. You can focus in the public room or create a private room with a code, send silent hearts, hide your task behind a status, and optionally attach a Spotify Jam.

It also has natural language quick add, voice notes, brain dumps that can become multiple task drafts, notes, projects, step-by-step routines, routine templates, calendar events, two-way calendar sync, completion milestones, iOS widgets and Live Activities, downloadable themes and icon packs.

AI is optional. An account is optional too. The app works locally without one. Signing in adds backup and cross-device sync.

The free version is limited to five active tasks and three routines. Premium removes those limits and has monthly, annual, and lifetime options.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ikoi-to-do-list-planner/id6761279743
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ikoi.app.Ikoi

Website - https://ikoi.app

The concept isn't something new. There has been other apps/websites like this. You send a digital letter / postcard and you get back a postcard in return. The current market is dominated by slowly. It's geared towards longer letters though. I have the idea of people sending pet pictures with a little bit of text.

Problem : It really isn't a problem but I think sharing pet pictures with each other could be fun.

Yes I know the security and privacy considerations including illegal stuff in images, moderation etc. But if those are taken care off, is this still a stupid idea?

Hi everyone,

I’m building Spaces, an album first photo app for people who prefer organising their library around albums rather than a feed/search first experience.

Spaces lets you add notes, links, and checklists alongside the photos already in your albums. More like a private visual board for a trip, project, home, or idea. Albums sync with Apple Photos, while notes and links stay in your own iCloud. There’s no tracking, analytics, or external server storing your data.

Spaces isn’t a full replacement for Apple Photos. It’s designed to work alongside it.

Since I don't use analytics, I’m looking for 5 TestFlight beta testers to screen record the initial setup and first use flow, so I can see where the UX is confusing. Please only use photos you’re comfortable recording, or only give limited photo album access.

In return, I’ll provide a promo code for the lifetime version when it launches. Planned pricing is $14.99 lifetime or $9.99/year with a one week trial.

If you’re interested, comment or DM me. You can also join the TestFlight here: spacesapp.co It will ask for you to subscribe but rest assured, you won't get charged in the beta app. It's a sandbox purchase.

Privacy policy: spacesapp.co/privacy

I really don't like the apple photos app. It feels really cluttered. And the albums gets buried. So I started making one which uses photokit. You can also save links, notes and checklists. And see photos in a calendar. I'm liking how it's turning out and see myself using it. Would you use this for a one time purchase?

For the past few months I've been working on a to do app that actually works with how my ADHD brain functions. It's called Ikoi. Some features (and anti-features):

Energy levels for tasks: Set how much energy each task needs, then filter them out on bad days.

Task decay: Most apps just shove undone tasks to tomorrow forever. Ikoi slowly fades them instead. If you haven't touched something in 7/14/21 days, it fades and then archives itself. Guilt-free.

No streaks. Ever: Streaks don't work. One missed day and the whole thing feels pointless. There will never be streaks in Ikoi.

Group body-doubling timer: Join a public room, see what others are working on, and work on your own thing alongside them.

Cute, not corporate: Customize it with different icon sets or bring your own.

This version is stable and shaped by feedback from people actually using it.

You can get it for iOS or Android.

Let me know if you have any thoughts.

I built Ikoi, an ADHD task manager. It's live on iOS and Android with real paying users. Still small, $150 in the last month, but it's growing.

I'm not chasing VC money. I want this to be a sustainable lifestyle business that two ADHD people actually enjoy running.

About me:

• 10 years in UX design, 6 years building frontend
• Been building real products since before the AI wave, so I'm not just prompting my way through this. Now I use AI coding agents to ship faster
• Comfortable across the tech side: cloud infra (Azure, AWS), running ads, analytics, and the general plumbing of getting a product live and measured
• I can also handle video editing, so you don't have to do everything alone on the content side
• I have ADHD, so I built the app I needed myself. Energy matching, one tiny first step per task, "not today" instead of a guilt pile
• Based in India

The problem is distribution. The product is good, but I'm bad at getting it in front of people. ADHD content does really well on TikTok and Instagram, and I need a partner who can own that. Finding hooks, being on camera, posting consistently, growing an audience that actually converts. If you have ADHD yourself, you'll get the content instinctively because you live it.

Who I'm looking for:

• Has ADHD
• Can make and ship short form videos consistently
• Based in Europe or Asia, so our timezones overlap

The offer is roughly 50/50 equity and equal share of revenue. Equal partners.

Try the app first at ikoi.app, then DM me with a bit about yourself and any content you've made.

I launched ikoi 2 months ago. Built it with constant feedback from real people with ADHD using it day to day, and the design is shaped by what actually helps them.

A. What it solves

Most task apps assume you wake up with a full tank every day. ikoi doesn't. The list adapts to what you actually have left.

1. Energy gating. Tag each task Low, Medium, or High energy (Zombie, Okay, Hyperfocused). On a flat day, the High stuff drops out of view instead of glaring at you.
2. Spoons. Set effort per task and a daily budget. Go over and you get a small heads up, not a wall. Same for a daily task cap. You can blow past either, you just know you're doing it.
3. Focus rooms. Join a public room to body double with strangers, or make a private one and invite friends.
4. Warm, not corporate. Swap themes, icon sets, and fonts. Build your own icon packs and themes, share them if you feel like it.
5. Quick add and brain dumps. Type a task in plain language, ikoi parses it. Loose thoughts go in as notes, you can promote them to tasks later.
6. Task Decay. Tasks you keep deferring starts getting faded out.
7. No streaks. Now or ever.

B. How it's different

Todoist and TickTick capture fast but the list just grows. Energy and spoon cost mean ikoi's list shrinks to fit the day.

Sunsama and Akiflow time-box your calendar. That falls apart when ADHD or chronic illness scrambles the plan. Budgeting capacity holds up better.

Finch and Habitica run on streaks and pets. Miss a day and you've let something down. ikoi has none of that.

Focusmate charges separately for body doubling. Here it's part of the app.

Every one of those calls came from people with ADHD in the Discord telling me what was and wasn't working. Best comment so far, from Lia: "This is my first empty tasklist in more than half a decade."

C. Cost

Free to download. Optional ikoi Premium

US Pircing

• Monthly: $2.99
• Annual: $24.99
• Lifetime: $49.99 one-time IAP

Regional pricing on both stores.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6761279743

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ikoi.app.Ikoi

Discord is open if you want to give direct feedback or shape what's next.

Privacy policy : https://ikoi.app/privacy
Terms of Service : https://ikoi.app/terms

My Personal Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/alekoi/

I first launched ikoi 2 months ago.

What it is. And how it's different from other productivity apps.

1. Energy gating - Every task is assigned a energy rating. Low, Medium, High. Tasks are gated by energy so when have you low energy you don't need to see tasks which require high energy. That just clogs up your mind.

2. Spoon theory built in - You can also set effort (spoons) required per task and set a daily budget. If your day has tasks what exceed that, you see a small hint that you have exceeded your budget. This grounds your tasks. You can also set maximum amount of tasks you should be able to do per day. These are not hard rules. You can exceed them if you want. But it's there so you know what you are dealing with.

3. Focus mode and body doubling - Although not for everyone body doubling helps a lot of people with adhd. So you can join a focus group, see what others are working on while you work on your thing. You can also create private focus rooms and invite your friends.

4. Warm not corporate - Not a feature but about aesthetics, there are themes, icon sets and fonts which can make the app feel more warm. You can also create your own icon sets and themes and also optionally share it with others.

5. Quick add and brain dumps - Quick add like todoist. Just type it out and it gets converted to a task. No need to fiddle with a list of options. You can also brain dump your thoughts as a note. And convert them to tasks when you want.

6. Anti patterns - No streaks and there will be none.

Download it for Android or iOS

The best comment I got for my app : "This is my first empty tasklist in more than half a decade" - Lia

Join the discord community if you want to give direct feedback and help shape the app.

I launched ikoi 2 months ago. It's a task manager for ADHD brains. Instead of listing features I want to share the thinking behind them, because that's the part that actually helped me.

Building for a problem I actually have made most decisions easy. I have ADHD and every app I tried turned into another thing to feel guilty about. That's where energy gating came from. Every task gets a Low, Medium or High energy rating, and when you're low energy the app hides the high energy tasks so they don't clog your head.

I built spoon theory in too. You set effort (spoons) per task and a daily budget, plus an optional max number of tasks. The part I went back and forth on: none of it is enforced. Go over budget and you just get a small hint, not a wall. People with ADHD get told "no" enough already. The app's job is to show you what you're dealing with, then get out of the way.

The feature I'm most sure about is one I didn't build. No streaks, and there never will be. Streaks are standard in this category and they're good for engagement and bad for the people I'm building for. Not having them ended up saying more about the app than anything I added.

Focus mode and body doubling have turned into my best feedback loop. You can join a focus group and see what others are working on while you work, or make a private room and invite friends. Body doubling isn't for everyone but it helps a lot of people.

A couple of smaller things that mattered more than I expected. Themes, icon sets and custom fonts, including ones you make yourself and can share, because an app that feels like yours is one you come back to. And quick add plus brain dumps, since the hardest moment isn't organising a task, it's catching the thought before it's gone four seconds later.

The best comment so far:

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That's basically the whole point of the app in one line.

App's on Android and iOS. The Discord is open if you want to follow along or argue with any of these decisions. Happy to go deeper in the comments, especially on the soft limits thing.

Ikoi version 2 is out. Built from the feedback I got

Around 2 months ago I posted about Ikoi here, a task manager I built for my ADHD brain. The problems it goes after haven't changed: activation energy, indecision, and tasks rotting on the list until they feel radioactive.

I got a lot of feedback since then. Version 2 is me actually acting on it.

Still the core:

• Energy matching : tag tasks zombie/okay/hyper + 1–5 spoons, see only what fits your current state
• Task decay : ignored tasks fade after 7 days, you get a smaller reframed version, or you "let it go"
• First steps : every task gets a tiny 2 min starting action so you're never staring at "do taxes"

What people asked for, now in:

• "Requires iOS 26, boo" : fixed. AI no longer depends on Apple Intelligence, so the app runs on older iPhones. And now also on Android.
• "Pixel font is hard to read / make things bigger" : heard, several times. There's now a text size setting (up to 130%, everything scales with it) and system font is now the default. The pixel look is a choice now.
• Icon sets, including a minimal one : a few of you liked the app but not the pixel art. There are now five icon styles: four illustrated sets and a clean minimal line icon set, as requested.
• Brain dump got better : it's a chat now. Dump thoughts by typing or talking (on device speech-to-text), each one gets shaped into a draft task with a first step and energy level. Nothing is added until you accept it.
• Routines : multi-step rituals (morning, wind-down)
• Two-way calendar sync
• Works fully offline, account optional : sign in only if you want sync across devices.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ikoi-adhd-task-manager/id6761279743

Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ikoi.app.Ikoi

Price - Regional pricing

US - $2.99/m $24.99/yr $49.99 lifetime

Discount on lifetime for the next 3 days (30%) - $34.99