Perhaps you are looking for “Volunteer developers who develop add-ons by request of Anki users”.
There is no such service in Anki, because all kind volunteers develop official Anki and AnkiDroid, not add-ons.
(BTW, Currently official Anki has 126 problems, AnkiDorid has 281 problems!)
I know that Anki itself does not provide anything like that which is why I reach out to other Anki users who also happen to know programming and are Anki learners as well.
I am a student so I cannot offer much in terms of money. I only hope that by reaching out for the good will of others and them being inspired by my 2 suggestions, that these 2 ideas could materialise.
It is your decision if you want to release the add-ons, after all Shige, if you have made the two addons at all in the first place. It is at the end of you day your time, your effort and your making, so I have no right to force you.
I will keep trying to reach out to people as I am in dire need to change my situation and speed up my learning process, as I have a fate-deciding exam in a month or so. With Anki as being my main learning platform, I could hope to find someone to be kind enough and help situations like mine out, the answer to which is not money which I don’t have.
Hmm, my guess you will be banned from the forum and Anki Reddit.
(You have already been warned several times by other users)
Which warning do you mean? I haven’t done anything wrong. Instead, it is you who is antagonizing me without actually addressing my points. I am the OP of this post. You could go on your merry way if you find it difficult to come up with something of use to say.
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Basically, developers are looking for paid work, so if you approach them with a lot of free stuff they will be annoyed.
Perhaps if you clarify your budget and deadlines at the beginning, it won’t be a problem.
(In short, be considerate so that the developers don’t waste their time misunderstanding you, their time is valuable.)
Well firstly, that wasn’t the purpose of my main post, was it? My main post raised a concern about whether my add-ons could damage more than they do good. You’re conflating something else with this
Secondly, as for whether ALL developers are looking for paid work, I doubt that that is the case. That is too big a generalization. My time is just as valuable as any other time on here.
Thirdly, it is only when you came along that this discussion took the direction that it has taken right now. You already said you refused paid personal work some two weeks ago, so I don’t get why you are acting passive-aggressive.
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Fourthly, I only shared two ideas this entire time. 2 ideas that I am keen on. If a developer comes along, finds them intriguing, and welcomes the idea for their benefit as well (perhaps they could be an Anki learner as well) then all is great and well.
I don’t get this mindset that there is some hidden golden rule somewhere that ALL programmers are freelancers and that paid work is the default. What about people who work voluntarily? Doesn’t seem too far-fetched to me. I think I have the freedom to ask since this is an Anki forum.
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I agree and I think I understand those views of yours.
I was just offering my personal opinion and the information/ideas I have that might be helpful to you. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be what you want :-/
Then let me make it clear to you once again in simple-sentence bullet points:
1-I am a student.
2-I come from a poor country yet an avid anki learner
3-I live with under 1000 dollars as a foreign student in a month to get by.
4-My exams, which could determine whether I stay in Medicine or not, are in one month.
5-Time is running out for me
6-Therefore I had these 2 ideas
7-Looking for VOLUNTEER programmers (perhaps 1 in a million if I could find those)
8-If this volunteer finds my 2 ideas beneficial to them, all the better.
9-I cannot promise a payout over 100 dollars (for you this may be a piece of cake, for me that is a fortune).
I summarized my points again so that there is no more confusion between me and you.
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That’s good, I think it’s clear and easy to understand.
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And what does that make your stance out to be so that we be clear on this:
1-You don’t bother about making the add-ons. (I respect that)
2-You already did the add-ons just don’t want to release them without agreeing at a price you are comfortable with (I respect that)
3-You volunteer to do it (I respect that)
4-You ignore it altogether (I respect that)
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On a different note, I actually think it is much more worthwhile to just use already existing anki features. I personally believe Anki is already at a very mature state. Think the second add-on. I know what you’re talking about. I keep shuffling my learning steps, albeit somewhat rarely; and I don’t also need to go through learning steps all the time. If I’m particularly confident in some cards I will quickly reschedule or just use the easy button to jump the learning steps.
I think we are at a point where most things added to anki will have very small returns. But idk I used to think that about SM2 and now we have FSRS which can potentially reduce workloads by 30 per cent which is a not so small number. iirc I also saw someone who said average reviews have almost been halved for them with FSRS.
I actually like the concept of lapse:review though. That one is good. But I would just add that in so many cases a single card is going through say the same relearning/learning steps again and again. The add on won’t consider those because it’s not considered lapse. The best method imo is just suspending stuff while reviewing them.
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- You can feel free to request me for add-on ideas/requests/repairs. I am looking for those Interesting ideas.
- But if you want to discuss those delivery dates, you need to slap my cheek with a wad of cash ($3000+).
- Unless you mention delivery dates, deadlines, detailed orders, etc. you do not need to pay me.
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I have already explained what the intention of the add-on is in the subreddit.
For the Steps addon
1-Unnecessary steps (and time) that would have been used for the easier cards (which are say, like 80% of the cards) could be used more for more heavy-duty memorization of hard-to-learn stuff.
It would be very stupid to have say only 2 steps to memorize and easy card and a hard card which requires you to recall a hard anatomical Latin name like Ganglion pterygopalatinum.
And it would be likewise stupid and time wasting if there had been 7 learning steps for both easy and hard cards.
For the leech add-on.
Well duh the whole point of the add-on is to literally automate stuff.
I am learning a behemoth amount of stuff en masse. Maybe for a casual user whose cards are monolithic and for whom time is not an issue could this may be not as beneficial. But I don’t need to dwell on this as I already have said it before and I am saying it now again.
You could always make something great better.
Thank you. I guess this makes it clear. I believe this is where we part way on this issue for Good while I look somewhere else. Good luck to you Shigeuki.
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If you find a developer, you can use my Add-ons (TodayAgainCount , Leech Tool kit, etc.) as you like. Anki’s Add-ons are all open source, so you can customize them as you like, regardless of my intentions.
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[ Good news ]
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Developer KyleRego has customized the Leech Toolkit based on your Reddit post and uploaded it to AnkiWeb
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My speculation that there would be no developer was wrong (Yup, it’s worth looking for).
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He is a more advanced development than me. (My repairs are as messy as duct tape.)
[ Bit bad news ]
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Existing bugs don’t appear to have been repaired (syncing doesn’t work).
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The calculation method looks a little different than what I would expect and consider. (maybe days need to be calculated? I don’t know if that’s the behavior you expect.)
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I am still busy.
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Thanks for the update 
Were you already planning to develop the addon anyway? 
For now I plan to make at least the next two anyway. (because I want them).
- Review and lapse ratios
- Putting leech cards into the custom deck instead of the deck
The rest of the features will be considered after I have succeeded in making them.
(These have some difficult tasks and I don’t know if I can make them yet. Creating new features is more difficult than repairs, and less beneficial.)
The problem is that my meaning of “make” means a few months to about 6 months.
In my opinion that’s fast (Anki add-ons are usually abandoned for 6 months to a few years).
But your request was for a month or less, so this is quite late. Perhaps you have finished your exams or you will graduate so you will not need them anymore.
Medicine is for my entire life long (if I pass). However my upcoming major exams (the pre-clinical exam) is indeed less than 5 months away, with many pivotal exams littered in between. Sooo…yeah…
I think the new add-on may not be very appropriate for your purpose. It may take a long time to develop and may not even have the desired effect when it is actually completed. (Yep, it happens all the time.)
In the Spaced Repetition, removing the most difficult cards could improve learning efficiency by about 300%.
So if you have a lot of leeches, that is most likely the cause of your learning difficulties.(In other words, you may have three times the learning workload of normal Anki users.)
If so, instead of managing your leeches, it may be more effective for your learning to look into ways to reduce leeches as much as possible. Basically, card design and mnemonics are a lot more important than add-ons.
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