My feedback as an Anki user:

1. The landing page and app UI is beautiful and fast, great work.

2. Never require signup for trying an app, especially for a Show HN.

3. I see the value in trying to prevent memorization of Q → A patterns, but creating cards takes time. Instead of making 1 card, I now need to make 3, that triples the amount of time spent. Additionally, why do variations need to be associated to a parent card? What's wrong with flattening your card structure?

4. The annual subscription price seems a little high, especially since there are so many free SRS programs out there.

5. Memorization of Q → A patterns can be mitigated by other means, such as making more open ended cards, requiring longer answers, or by simply trying not to just memorize and forcing yourself to think about the card and it's applications.

> Would you use an app like this for learning? Would I use it? Perhaps. Would I pay for it? No. Anki has so many more features, plugins, local control over my data, and... it's free.

You have to associate variations as a single "owner card" otherwise you're adding in unnecessary reviews. You want to review 100 cards (which display a random variation on demand) not 500 cards. That's why you need to use a bit of Anki JS to randomize the "multiple fronts" on a single card to achieve the same results.

Source: This is what I do on my Anki decks

5- I don't know if that's even an issue that needs solving with Anki. If that ever becomes an issue with your deck it's probably because you don't add enough cards per day (or preferred time period) and enough cards per subject. I wrote about this in a comment last week I think, but a simple vocab card should actually be like at least 6: vocab <-> image (2), vocab <-> native vocab (2), vocab <-> write out native vocab (2). The text-based answers should still contain an image, too, for better embedding of the knowledge.

People that complain that Anki ends up being just Q -> A memorization are often using it superficially. And even then, won't the algorithm just phase the useless cards out anyways when they become too easy?

+1 for signup. I'd have defo signed up to try it out, but I don't use Google to sign in to anything I'm afraid