Building Glym · open to interesting problems

Jijil
Ramakrishnan

I build apps that teach. Right now that's Glym — where 360 GRE words become pictures you can't forget.

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Children listening to music as the sun sets A boy hanging back in a classroom doorway A girl hiding from the stage, imagining herself on it A boy offering a treat to a growling dog A shy painter shown his own picture by friends A child comforting a crying sibling A mother settling a tantrum with ice cream Two children admiring a sculpture in a gallery A child painting at an easel in a bright room
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What I'm building

Glym

A vocabulary app for people who've tried flashcards and forgotten everything by Thursday.

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Glym
GRE Vocabulary Builder · iOS

Definitions don't stick. Pictures do. Every one of Glym's 360 GRE words is a scene you look at once and keep — abate is a storm passing, anomalous is a penguin in a desert.

Then it makes you use them: puzzles, quizzes that adapt to what you keep missing, and reviews timed for the day you're about to forget.

  • 360 words, each with its own illustration
  • A new word puzzle every day — free, no app needed
  • Spaced review that catches you before you forget
  • Every chapter free to study — premium buys the experience, not access
Download on the App Store Play today's puzzle

Inside Glym

One word, six ways in

Meeting a word once doesn't stick it. So Glym makes you meet it as a picture, a quiz, a puzzle, a root, and a race — until it's yours.

Scroll across — six real screens

Picture every word — a GRE word shown as an illustrated scene, because vivid pictures make new words stick Prove you really know it — a mastery quiz asking you to pick which of four scenes means INURED Learn it by playing — the Connections board, where you tap the three images that fit a word Build words from their roots — a honeycomb of word parts, so learning one root unlocks many words See how each word stuck — a map of every swipe, quiz and clue for the word capricious Race friends in real time — live multiplayer vocabulary matches with rated and casual tables

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About

Why teaching apps

I'm a developer in India. I like problems where the hard part isn't the code — it's whether the thing actually works on a human. Vocabulary is a good one: everybody knows how to make flashcards, and almost nobody remembers the words.

So Glym starts from how memory behaves rather than how software is usually built. A picture instead of a definition. A puzzle instead of a drill. A review timed for the day you're about to forget, not a streak that punishes you for having a life.

I build the whole thing — app, backend, illustrations, the daily puzzle, the videos that market it.

  • AppsFlutterDart
  • BackendFirebaseCloud FunctionsNode
  • WebStaticFastNo framework tax
  • DataPythonFirestore
  • Shipped toApp Store
  • Based inIndia

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Let's talk

Using Glym and something's broken? Building something similar? Just want to argue about spaced repetition? All welcome.