It started with me, panicking a little. I had a huge test the next day and needed a few hundred index cards. Hundreds. That night. There was no way I was making those by hand.
So I went to my dad. He's the one who builds things. We sat there looking at what was out there, and there were a handful of apps that could do something like it. But they all felt like engineered software, not something a student would actually want to open. The interfaces were cluttered, nothing felt intuitive, and the results just didn't give us the organization or the confidence we were looking for. We wanted something built differently.
So we started building. Together.
By the end of that night, I was lying in bed studying, and for the first time before a big test, I actually felt calm. That's the moment Capri Cards was born.
I get anxious about tests, and the scramble the night before (not having your materials ready, feeling behind before you've even started) only makes it worse. I didn't want other students with that same anxiety to go through what I went through that night.
Every part of this app traces back to that: adding your material, the clean, focused study screen, the quiz mode that tests you on what you studied. Even the colors and the way it looks, that's all my style. It's built for students with real work to do and not enough hours to do it.
A note on the name: We call them Capri Cards, our name for what you'd probably call index cards or flashcards. Capri's my middle name. We just like the way it sounds. Capri Cards!
