What type of job does sales of Anki decks? I never though this to be have like a market, so curious to know

In Japanese learning, people sell premade decks for things like learning kanji with mnemonics and graphics, or curriculum-like decks that provide a sensible order such as N+1 sentences (sentences with at most one unknown word or kanji)

I'm also in the business of generating Anki decks, except on the tools side: https://reader.manabi.io is growing in popularity for Japanese sentence mining for Anki on iOS & macOS

My project began as a "blissful" side project and is now my full-time occupation.

Interesting app, I haven't heard of Manabi before! How does it compare to other apps like Jidousho? And other, more general desktop tools like Yomitan? On mobile, I'm currently using Yomitan on Firefox for mining, but I'm curious about other mobile-specific approaches and apps that people have made.

Compared with Yomitan, a couple quick differences that come to mind:

- Manabi tracks the words and kanji you've read to show you which are new to you, and which you have as flashcards. You can see this visually on the page, and in a vocab listing

- Review flashcards that appear in whatever you're trying to read. Soon I will also have it auto-review flashcards passively as you read and encounter them naturally

- Add flashcards to Manabi Flashcards or to Anki including AnkiMobile on iOS

- One-tap words to look up instead of mouseover from starting boundary

- Manabi packages reading tools such as RSS, EPUB and soon manga (via Mokuro) with user-editable curated libraries of content. Yomitan is less of a standalone-capable tool

I am working on adding Yomitan dictionaries now (to also make the app multilingual) as well as more integrations such as 2-way sync with Anki, WaniKani, JPDB

I think Jidoujisho has a lot of similarities but it's not an iOS/macOS app

I should put up some product comparison material as there are a lot of tools out there

Ah I didn't realize you also had a macOS app out! Also cool to see you're on HN! I honestly love the niche that we're in.

Hi! Maybe you saw my old app before I rewrote it fully in SwiftUI. Yes it's a nice supportive community to be in

I believe they address this on the last sentence of the blog as a measure to prevent abuse on the free-tier they ask for credit card info, they specifically complain about cypto mining

Thanks for that. I actually went to the blog to read it and you're right they do explain themselves. Thank you.

I like cryptomining, so it doesn't help my adoption of them.

Mind to share if there's a video or something of the presentation? Would love to see it, thanks.

Windows has PowerToys [1] with the tool FancyZones, I've used it daily for a while and in general works pretty well, it's customizable and I use it to setup "zones" for working and splitting my tools into predefined spaces on muy screens.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/

FancyZones has no power over Task Manager, it is too strong!

Have you tried starting PowerToys as admin?

Dogfooding: eating your own food. Is refer to the practice of using you own product as your main service, being your own customer. As example, there's a story where every Android (OS) developer where given basic Android phone with low RAM as their main device, they where aiming to decrease the resources the OS required and using the phone by the developers allowed them to experience first hand what low income/cheap phone owners felt IRL, thus allowing them to better focus on improving the product on real pain points experienced by themselves

HN has moderation, so some stories can be pushed back into the /New stack by staff, they can fall again if aren't liked by the community

I just noticed your response, I must said I've enjoyed your past games and I've shared them.

I've particularly enjoyed playing Snakisms, playing it was quite a discovery process! *edit: tipo