Show HN: Make math automatic with Mathy

(gmays.com)

58 points | by gmays 4 days ago

6 comments

  • AlchemistCamp 31 minutes ago
    This is a great project to see. I'm also an early fan and customer of Math Academy and am glad to see something like this focused on micro skills. As much as memorization is dismissed, having automatic recall base skills lets you get much further, much faster in harder ones.
    • gmays 19 minutes ago
      Thank you! Yeah, Justin Skycak's writing really turned me on to the benefits of automaticity. Once you're aware of it you start to notice everywhere you lack it and how much it'd help in raising your ceiling.
  • rahimnathwani 2 days ago
    This is great, Gabe.

    One small piece of feedback: on my Pixel, the Android keyboard obscures the green button. So when I'm answering a numerical question, I use your number pad to enter the digits, and then use the enter key on my Android keyboard. This feels weird, but I guess with regular use it wouldn't.

    • gmays 1 hour ago
      Thank you, I will look at that bug and get something deployed tonight! I only tested on Mac/iPhone, so I appreciate the feedback.
  • tehnoslow 2 days ago
    A good project. It’s great that the tasks are generated deterministically, without using AI-generated answers
    • gmays 1 hour ago
      Thanks! Yeah, that was a dealbreaker for me since I didn't want to bother with AI slop. So it took a while and a ton of testing/validation, but happy with how it came out.
  • captn3m0 1 hour ago
    I made something similar for my partner a while ago for math drills but this is way better (and more comprehensive). I gave up after 3-5 modules. Kudos.
    • gmays 1 hour ago
      Thank you!
  • rglover 1 hour ago
    Dude, hell yeah! I was just shopping for this exact thing not that long ago [1]. I've never been great with math and wanted something I could practice with away from my laptop. Love that it works in the browser, too. Well done, this is really nice.

    [1] https://graybearding.bearblog.dev/how-im-teaching-myself-mat...

  • Alex131313 30 minutes ago
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