I built a music theory course with games and spaced repetition
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I’ve spent a year building a theory learning path that starts from scratch and goes all the way up to topics like Secondary Dominants and Borrowed Chords. It uses a combination of games, interactive lessons and spaced repetition to help you understand and remember concepts. Not just learn something new and forget it in a few days.I’m trying to figure out: 1. Is the progression logical? 2. What am I missing that you’d like to see in there? 3. Where does it get confusing and could use more clarification?
HN · launched Apr 16, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: music education and practice apps · 185 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▼ -32% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Education
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial The web frontend and gamification/spaced-repetition logic are standard, but authoring the comprehensive curriculum and interactive musical fretboard engine requires deep music theory pedagogical expertise.
What it would actually take: The tech stack involves Vue/React, Web Audio API / Tone.js for low-latency instrument synthesis, and standard spaced-repetition algorithms like SM-2. The hard component is domain-specific: structuring hundreds of graduated music theory exercises, algorithmic fretboard chord/scale generation, and verifying musical voice-leading correctness.
Discussion
8 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Gitori.com (similar guitar learning/theory tool)
Concerns raised: Audio not working on Chrome/Linux browser, Audio/sound playback issues inconsistent across browsers, AI-generated Circle of Fifths images contain nonsensical Japanese characters, Guitar dropdown navigation broken with null reference error, Insufficient testing before deployment
Feature requests: Improve audio loading/autoplay clarity in documentation, Fix Guitar dropdown menu functionality
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 407 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #386 of 408 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 169 days after the earliest competitor.
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