Jordle
Japanese Furigana Practice
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I was talking with a friend (@finnvoid) about how we could make it easier to practice their hiragana and katakana reading while they are living in Japan. After some quick basic idea-crafting with Gemini, they took it and ran with to, building "Jordle" a Wordle-esque tool to help them (and you) learn your furigana.Playing is easy, your goal is to transliterate the shown characters into the romaji (romanization). Pick between the two character sets (hiragana and katakana) or both to practice.Data is local to the device, so it's pretty snappy and technically works offline.We'll probably be hanging out in the comments for a bit if people have questions or comments!
HN · launched Dec 16, 2025 · 11 upvotes (top 47%) · 0 views
Niche: language learning apps · 511 launches, 50 in the last 7 days ▼ -6% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Education
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes Jordle is a client-side Wordle clone for Japanese kana and kanji practice with simple state management and predefined word lists.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: ChatGPT
Concerns raised: Mobile Safari zoom issue with keyboard input, Furigana terminology misused in app
Feature requests: Better interface for focused learning
Competitors
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Attention rank: #63 of 155 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 39 days after the earliest competitor.
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