Whether English is your first or nth natural language, you may be familiar with this vexing experience: You encounter a flowery word in a book, podcast, or HN comment; you endeavor to memorize it to hone your speech and writing; you purge it from your synapses by the next day.
Flowery (https://flowery.app) streamlines vocabulary building by: • Rendering a typographically pristine Oxford dictionary and thesaurus. • Conjuring up the stochastic parrot to eliminate the tedium of flashcard creation. • Scheduling the flashcards with a spaced repetition algorithm.
About the tech stack:
The server is built on Rust, Axum, and PostgreSQL. The client is built on Google’s Lit. We are betting the farm on the web—you won’t find Flowery on any app store. We have gone to great lengths to polish UX, especially on iOS where we rolled our own virtual keyboard, textboxes, and text selection. We strive to make Flowery an exemplar of the quasi-native web app.
Non-obvious features to try:
• “Add to Home Screen” on iOS. • “Add to Dock” on macOS Sonoma. • Install on Android and desktop Chrome. • Append an ellipsis to search by prefix. • Touch a flashcard’s blank for a hint. • Keyboard navigation inspired by the one true editor.
Give it a whorl [sic] and share your thoughts!
Florally yours,
The Florist
