We got tired of building Anki decks for Chinese, so we built the app we wanted. Launching Saturday.

Hi everyone 👋

My friend Paul and I fell for Chinese while studying in Beijing and later in Suzhou.

Like most learners who get serious, we ended up in Anki: building our own decks, fixing them, keeping them alive. It worked, but it took hours before the first card was ready. And reading, listening, speaking and writing never fit on a flashcard anyway.

So we built Gushi: the whole language in one app, with spaced repetition deciding what comes back and when.

What it does differently:

• Every character comes with its tone, its parts, a short story that makes it stick, and where its shape came from (oracle bone to today)

• All nine levels of the new HSK 3.0 exam, 11,000 words, which most material hasn't caught up with yet

• Reading, listening, shadowing, writing stroke by stroke, and mock exams

• In English, German, Spanish and French

• Phone on the train, laptop in the evening: one account, one review history

We launch on Product Hunt this Saturday. If you'd like to see it go live, you can follow the launch here: https://www.producthunt.com/products/gushi?launch=gushi-2

Two honest questions:

1. If you've ever started learning a language and stopped, what made you stop?

2. What do you think of this breakdown? Would a story like this help you remember the character?

Try it now (first month free): https://gushi-chinese.online/ ... afterwards contact me :-)