“After wanting to explore more lines I came across the paywall behind it, which left me with one option: To build the open-source version myself and finally its here: Tabia.”
daxaur, on news.ycombinator.com ↗
Drill your chess openings with spaced repetition, Stockfish in the browser, no account. The only paywall is the one it was built to escape.
Speechify charges $29 a month to read text out loud. Earful reads your PDFs, books and photos of pages aloud on your own device, for nothing.
“The popular reading apps lock the basics behind a subscription of around $139 a year.”
Every kids' typing site wanted either ad money or your money, so a dad and ChatGPT built one that wants neither.
“My kids are surprisingly keen to learn to type, and I couldn't find any thing out there which was A) Free without adverts B) Worked well on mobile/tablets C) Was clutter free and easy to use”
Test-prep sites charge a ridiculous amount to quiz you on Canada. This one does 500 questions free, no ads, no account.
“While looking for tools to prepare for the test, I found most are either hard to use, full of annoying ads, or ask for a ridiculous amount of money.”
Built something because a company wanted your credit card for a feature that fits in a single file? That's spiteware. Submit it and join the hall of fame.
