I made a crossword app for language learners
Details
- External ID
- 47660065
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- I made a crossword app for language learners
- Website domain
- cranki.app
- Launched
- April 6, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4813624678663239
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hi HN!In the last couple of weeks I've been working on Cranki:Cranki = Crosswords + Anki. (It's a stupid name tbh, haha)I like doing crosswords in Spanish (to learn vocab) but none of the apps out there allowed me to use my own list of words that I come across. So I built one instead.It's entirely client-side. No server, no database, no accounts, etc. Your words and stats are stored in local storage.I built this for myself but let me know if you like it!
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie puzzle games and learning toys
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- crossword app for language learning
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Generating small crosswords from user vocabulary lists using standard backtracking/constraint satisfaction algorithms paired with an Anki-like SM-2 spaced repetition scheduler is a classic weekend project.
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