About & beta
FlashPod began with a specific frustration: knowing exactly how to study effectively, and still not being able to reliably sit down and do it.
Getting started, choosing what to work on, and staying in a chair are real barriers — sharply so with ADHD and other executive-function differences, and familiar to anyone carrying a full course load. Study tools tend to assume that part is free. It isn't.
So the design assumption here is that a sit-down session may never happen at all, and review has to work anyway: nothing to set up, no decisions up front, and it fits in the gaps you already have. When you do want to sit down with the cards, that's still there — it's just no longer the only way in.
That's a design stance, not a treatment. FlashPod is a study tool, built for anyone who wants review to take less setting up — in a degree program, in a language, or in whatever you've decided to learn this year.
Amanda is a data scientist who used to teach reading, where spaced repetition and retrieval practice were the daily tools — mostly with kids with neurodivergent needs.
She built FlashPod for herself in grad school, because she is at heart a nerd who loves learning and, with ADHD, could never reliably sit down with a deck of flashcards. She has been studying from it every day since.
FlashPod is early, and a beta invite should come with no surprises. Everything below ships before public release — the beta is your chance to shape it first.
FlashPod is opening to a small invite-only group first, so early testers get real attention and real influence over what ships.
One thing worth knowing before your first walk: the beta runs in your mobile browser, so audio stops if you lock the screen. Leave the screen on, phone in your pocket, headphones in, and a session plays through fine. The native apps solve this properly.
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