Socrati - Your personal knowledge podcast from any source
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Your personal knowledge podcast — from any source. Drop in a PDF, a YouTube video, a photo of a page, or a topic you type in. Socrati builds you a full course: narrated audio lessons, multiple-choice drills, fill-in-the-blank exercises, and flashcards. Spaced repetition brings the material back on the day your brain is about to forget it.
Built for the moments you can't be at your desk: headphones in on the bus, at the gym, or before bed. Live on iOS and Android in 6 languages.
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Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm David, the solo maker behind Socrati. I built this because I kept wanting to learn when I wasn't at my desk — on the bus, at the gym, or in bed at the end of a long day, too tired for a screen but happy to put headphones on and let a lecture play in the background.
Drop in a PDF, a YouTube link, a photo of a page, or a topic you type in, and Socrati builds you a full course: narrated audio lessons, drills, flashcards, and spaced repetition to bring it back before you forget it. Live on iOS and Android, in six languages.
Genuinely keen for honest feedback. I'll be here all day. Roast it, question it, ask anything.
— David
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What I like here is that you’re not just turning content into audio, but you’re building actual retention into the learning process. Most people take in information passively and forget it a few days later. The spaced repetition and interactive drills is what makes this feel genuinely useful for long-term learning, especially for people trying to learn while away from their desk.
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@thamibenjelloun Thanks Thami, the retention bit was easily the hardest part to get right. Generating courses is the easy bit. Without the drills and spaced repetition it's basically just an audiobook with extra steps.
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@curiouskitty Power users will start from source material, not from decks. Quizlet and Anki are great once you already know what belongs on a card. Socrati sits one step earlier - PDF, video, lecture, or paper in; lessons, drills, flashcards, and a review queue out.
Export: APKG and CSV are on the roadmap. Anki users are some of the most thoughtful learners on the internet and locking them in would defeat the point. The shape I want: every course's flashcards exportable to your existing Anki collection in one tap.
Ingest: Readwise is the obvious first integration - clean API, already aggregates from Kindle, Pocket, Notion, and most highlight tools. GoodNotes after.
Long term, decks become one output of the loop, not always the starting point. The starting point is curiosity about a topic or a stack of source material; the output is whatever shape your retention needs.
I'm impressed. The first course, "How to Learn Anything", was beyond the simple and vague techniques like "block your time", "do mindmaps", etc. Interleaving, sleep consolidation, and using metaphors is genuinely good components in anyone's study system. I'm curious what learning science principle you guys built the app upon, and where did you guys do the research? A lot of it reminded me of Justin Sung. Anyways, best of luck and I hope you guys go far!