Hi Product Hunt, I built Pépite because I kept closing apps that told me things I had no way to check. It works like this: one subject a day, told in animated cards you tap, flip and swipe. The next day a few questions come back, then again three days later, then seven, twenty-one, sixty. That spacing is the whole product: reading something once and feeling clever about it is not learning, and I wanted what I read on Tuesday to still be there in November. Pépite is organised country by country. Each country gets the same six chapters: its history, its legends, its language, its table, its land and its life today. France and Portugal are open; the rest follow, about one a week at the pace we have kept so far. The part I care most about is at the bottom of every lesson: the list of what was read to write it. Caesar's own account, Grégoire de Tours, the record of Jeanne d'Arc's trial, a merchant's letter from Lisbon in 1755. You can click them. When a date is disputed, the lesson says so instead of picking the tidy answer: nobody knows for sure what year Clovis was baptised. One rule I hold to: people keep their own names. Jeanne d'Arc stays Jeanne d'Arc, even in English. It is a web app you can install from the browser; iOS and Android are not out yet. The English edition is at pepite.today/en. I would rather hear what is wrong with it than be told it looks nice.

Pépite

General knowledge, country by country. Actually fun.

General knowledge, country by country. Actually fun.