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24 alternatives to Reject Git-push if you haven't practiced your Spanish today

Do you use git? 💻 Do you use @duolingo? 🗣 I use this hook to reject my git-pushes if I haven't extended my daily streak 📈 https://t.co/LzKmqyyGQe

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Reject Git-push if you haven't practiced your Spanish today launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Git Pushups▲131
Hi HN! I made this app out of necessity: sometimes I'll troll over my laptop all day without moving until lunch break or work is done. No good. So I made git hook to block my git commits if I didn't do some calisthenics. Later, after I noticed it was useful, I decided to open it up for others. It works like this: - Download the iOS or Android app - Install the .git hook - Do daily pushups with the app or else your hooks will fail Pushup form is validated via ARKit/MLKit and the accelerometer and I only use github for authentication. If you find it useful, let me know! Justin
2025 · gitpushups.com · its alternatives →
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Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos▲289
Hi HN, I watch A LOT of educational YouTube videos but wasn't forgetting a good chunk of the details because I was only really passively watching. So I made a tool that generates quiz questions/flashcards from YouTube videos, and uses spaced repetition like Anki or Duolingo to keep it in memory. Let me know if you find it cool/useful (or terrible ) or if you want to know a bit about the details!
2024 · platoedu.org · its alternatives →
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Personalized Duolingo (kind of) for vocabulary building▲161
Hi! Wanted to share the project I really wanted to have. TLDR; this app lets you create your own list of words and you get a Duolingo-like experience (kind of, still needs a lot of features) practicing those words in their context. My English is not the best but not the worst either. But I realized I can't boost it up after a certain level! In my belief, in order to truly learn a language, you need to be exposed to that language often. Vocabulary is the key factor here if you really want to improve in any language. My experience is that when I read a book to improve my English vocabulary, I…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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TransLite▲98
Hello ! David from Spain here :) I built TransLite because I was tired of breaking my flow every time I needed to translate something before sending it. The usual workflow was: copy → open a browser tab → paste → translate → copy again → paste back. I've created a small macOS menubar app that lets you translate the current clipboard instantly using a keyboard shortcut, in any app. It works locally and supports using your own OpenAI / Claude API key. It’s intentionally simple — no accounts, no tracking, no subscriptions. Happy to answer any questions. Best regards, David
Feb 2026 · translite.app · its alternatives →
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gitbird▲100
Tweet your commits
2018 · its alternatives →
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Streak Tracker 🔥▲72
A simple chrome extension to track your habit chains 🔗
2018 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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I spent 4 months building Duolingo but for your life▲90
I initially released this as just an IOS app. Since then it has been growing steadily but a lot of people have emailed asking for a web / android version. It took me nearly 2 months to build a version for the web. The nice thing about using Convex as my backend is that all the data is always synced between the app and web. I do not have to setup any syncing logic. The moment you change something in the app, it will reflect on the web version in realtime. I know there are loads of these kind of tools online but it's starting to feel like mine is actually starting to differentiate itself…
2025 · three-cells.com · its alternatives →
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A New Way to Learn Languages▲67
Hi HN, I’m Pablo, I built this application to learn languages using podcasts: https://www.langturbo.com (No signup required) There are a lot of tools to learn languages, but most of them focus on beginners (understandably so, that’s where the money is) but not many exist that target intermediate or advanced learners. The ones that exist make you find content on your own and then import that into their apps, which can be tricky when you don’t know where to look. LangTurbo has a unique curated database of podcasts by language (some even have dialect labels) that you can browse by…
2025 · langturbo.com · its alternatives →
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Streak.ly tracks what you do daily and I'd love feedback on the concept▲54
I've been working on a side project called Streak.ly with a friend of mine for the past month or so; it's intended to help keep you motivated to do otherwise mundane daily tasks (like do 10 pushups, read for an hour, etc.) by letting you log "streaks" — consecutive days in a row of doing something. It's in private alpha/beta/gamma/whatever right now (has some rough edges to clean up), but is more or less functionally complete and pretty stable. I'm a big fan of the Seinfeld calendar, and have seen other services which do similar things but were unsatisfying to use, either from an aesthetic…
2010 · streak.ly · its alternatives →
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Git Confirm. Git hook to catch accidentally committed code (TODO/Skip)▲51
:question: Git hook to catch placeholders and temporary changes (TODO / @ignore) before you commit or push them. - pimterry/git-confirm
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Cadence Spanish – AI audio lessons to learn Spanish▲7
Hey! I'm Ali, and I built a tool to help me learn Spanish. There's a good amount of info in the about page, but the short version is that I found apps like Duolingo completely useless. In theory they're designed to help you speak a language but I found it mostly helped my muscle memory tap the right parts of a screen without really learning to say anything. Or more importantly prepare me for how fast a native Spanish speaker speaks! After giving up on Duolingo I tried a few different things; Pimsleur, Paul Noble and Language Transfer. These are all great in different (but similar) ways and…
Jan 2026 · cadencespanish.com · its alternatives →
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GitHub Streak▲3
Generate a Duolingo-inspired GitHub streak widget.
Jun 2026 · github-streak.rahuldhole.com · its alternatives →
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CI/CD in your terminal, zero YAML▲7
We're two engineers that got fed up with context switching. Why do we need to do a git push, open a browser tab, wait for some task to actually start, bite nails (or read HackerNews) for 10 minutes or more while dependencies are being installed for the 100th time and finally end up with an invalid YAML error. And for some reason this usually happens in the final stage of the pipeline leading up to the inevitable git commits "Fixed", "Fixed again", "Test", "Really fixed this time". We can do better. We set out to build Zippy. A CI/CD system that works from your terminal. No context…
Mar 2026 · zippy.sh · its alternatives →
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Pushpost▲21
Turn git commits into engaging tweets
2025 · its alternatives →
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A Git hook that turns your commit title into Japanese poetry▲5
When putting the kids to bed I had some inspiration and wrote a git hook that turns the title of my commit message into a haiku. Because of the Japanese poetry theme, I had to write it in Ruby What do you think?
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Phrasing.app▲13
Hello HN - Over the last few years, I've been building an app to learn languages. It supports ~85 languages and ~40 dialects, and is optimized for learning and maintaining multiple languages. Learning a language is a ton of work, but really quite simple. Find text you're interested in, dissect and understand it, and review it often. Grind that every day for a few years, and you'll be fluent. So I built Phrasing for 4 main reasons: 1. To have an app I would actually be excited to use every single day for years. 2. To do all the research, explanation, prioritization, course planning and…
May 2026 · phrasing.app · its alternatives →
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Git rewind – your Git year in review▲5
I started an experiment to let a WASM-powered webapp interact with a local git repo and see how well this works. It turns out, it works pretty well! I made it into a "git wrapped" tool that shows you when you committed the most, and what languages and files you most touched. Despite the scary prompt when you use the filesystem API everything happens locally and your code stays private. (You can of course also just try it on cloned public github repos). Let me know what you think!
Dec 2025 · gitrewind.dev · its alternatives →
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Use Twitter as CLI for any *other* app▲6
Ever noticed that the 140 chars tweet sometimes feels like CLIing? Me too. So I made CtrlTwit with which you can use twitter as CLI to any other app (that has an API). For example: you can like an instagram photo simply by replying "@instagram like #ctrltwit" to a tweet with an instagram photo. Or, you can RSVP to a meetup simply by replying "@meetup rsvp yes #ctrltwit" to a tweet with a meetup link. Or you can tweet "@foursquare where to eat? #ctrltwit" and fsq will reply with the best restaurant recommendation based on your location. There are more examples on the website and of course I'd…
2014 · its alternatives →
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I made an app for Russian language learners to help them text better▲8
Hey everyone! I’ve been learning the Russian language on and off for over 15 years now. I took classes in college, and of course continued my education through apps like Duolingo. I started learning the language because one of my closest friends growing up was Russian, and I thought it would be cool to be able to speak with him in his language. Of all the ways I’ve learned the language, not one of them focused on the modern way we communicate: through text. I decided to make this app to create a text-first language learning experience --mostly so I could keep up with my friends’ groupchat.…
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Git squash with confidence with Git squash-check▲5
git squash-check Introduction: Thoughts on git merge –squash More and more I’m squashing when I merge my git branches. I’ve been using this at my day job for about a month, and have some thoughts. I...
2016 · rwilcox.tumblr.com · its alternatives →
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I made a crossword app for language learners▲8
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!
Apr 2026 · cranki.app · its alternatives →
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I built the literal Duolingo Killer▲11
Hi Everyone, I recently wanted to learn Japanese with duolingo but it kept giving me repetitive lessons. So I built an app that gives a variety of lessons from anime. You can try it out here:https://kanjieight.vercel.app/ Thanks everyone.
Nov 2025 · kanjieight.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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I Built GitHub Wrapped – Like Spotify Wrapped, but for coding▲5
Like Spotify Wrapped, but for your GitHub activity! Discover your coding journey in 2025 with beautiful visualizations. See your top languages, commit streaks, most productive days, and more in an engaging story format.
2024 · git-wrapped.com · its alternatives →
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Let's Git It!▲5
Every Command a Beginner Needs to Know!
2022 · bhaveshrawat.gumroad.com · its alternatives →

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