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ReadCoach

Created by: aloyak
6 devlogs
19h 39m 38s

https://readcoach.aloyak.dev
Silence your inner voice while reading and double your reading speed!
An interactive website that helps anyone dramatically improve their reading speed by breaking hard-stuck reading habits in MINUTES using RSVP.

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aloyak
aloyak shipped ReadCoach
about 2 months ago

Shipped this project!

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Finally, ReadCoach 1.0! https://read-coach.vercel.app/

  • This website allows you to train your reading speed using RSVP, a method that cuts down the time you waste moving your eyes from word to word and also prevents you from using your inner voice for reading. A few sessions with this periodically will improve fairly your reading speed!

  • This version (1.0 Shipped) has all the features I would’ve liked to have if this website wasn’t programmed by me. Sadly, I had to cut some time on the backend, so there is no saving settings and texts for your account (yet! it is on the works)

Disclaimer: AI was used to create some texts (AI texts ID’s start with “A”)
Hope you like it!
@Almartdev

aloyak
aloyak worked on ReadCoach
about 2 months ago
2h 27m logged

Final changes before shipping!

  • Organized project structure, it was getting messy
  • A very cool 𝖊𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝖊𝖌𝖌 :)
  • Added some new Themes (copied from colorhunt)
  • Very small things: added small version text, fixed tutorial background text, changed some icons

demo -> https://read-coach.vercel.app

TODO after shipping:

  • Improve backend for saving texts and settings per user -> login, stats, etc, probably in the near future but I’m a bit tired of this project, I’ll come back to it later
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chefpenguino
chefpenguino about 2 months ago

you cooked so hard, i just tried the demo & the UI is amazing. love the idea behind this project :)

aloyak
aloyak worked on ReadCoach
about 2 months ago
4h 26m logged

Biggest update so far!
demo-> https://read-coach.vercel.app/

  • Added a simple tutorial with basic instructions, finally that button isnt a placeholder
  • Added cooler start buttons because it is pretty easy to do that with tailwind (ty tailwind!)
  • Improved Zen mode (still on the works tho)
  • Added word alignment so that your eyes can have an anchor point (disabled by default), I’m still not very pleased with the current solution but it will do for now
  • Improved some texts

Before shipping I will add a lot more texts and many other things!

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aloyak
aloyak worked on ReadCoach
about 2 months ago
2h 37m logged
  • Added a lot of new settings
  • custom texts
  • custom fonts
  • fast keyboard control (very fast)
    this is taking so long to do i cant understand my own comments lol

test it out! https://read-coach.vercel.app/

planning to add an interactive tutorial to explain this website and maybe even actually spending the time to make a user page with statistics and all that (it will take a lot of time)

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aloyak
aloyak worked on ReadCoach
about 2 months ago
2h 11m logged

FINALLY managed to get a quick demo up and running (alpha version tho)
You can now test your reading speed with a few hand made texts, you should check it out!
Polishing is on the works!
you can check the demo here: https://read-coach.vercel.app/
:D

what is this project? the monkeytype.com but for fast readers, also helps you improve reading with interactive tutorials yet to come

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M8000
M8000 about 2 months ago

Suggestion - flashing words on the screen in at a fixed pace at such a big font size will give an artificially increased reading speed. The most time consuming part of reading is actually moving your eyes and scanning the lines. I tried a reading test like this, and it told me my speed was 900 wpm evn tho in reality its more like 300-400 wpm!

aloyak
aloyak worked on ReadCoach
2 months ago
7h 57m logged

ADDED CUSTOM FONTS!
Look at that cool dynamic repositioning of the letters, this took so long to code…
There’s a lot more to come, although this isn’t open for the public yet :(

What is this project? the monkeytype.com for quick readers where you also learn how to double your reading speed in minutes using RSVP.

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aloyak
aloyak worked on ReadCoach
2 months ago

Im building a monkeytype.com but for reading instead of writting!
I will be using a vite and tailwind because they’re cool and pretty.
For now this is just an idea idk how this is gonna work out
I hope this project is useful for someone because it was very useful for myself :) that’s why I’m very excited to work on this!

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