I built a music theory course with games and spaced repetition
Details
- External ID
- 47794703
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I built a music theory course with games and spaced repetition
- Website domain
- gitori.com
- Launched
- April 16, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.11182519280205655
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
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?
Enrichment
- Theme
- music creation and learning tools
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- music theory course with games
- Manually corrected
- False
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
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Attention rank: #198 of 213 (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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