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gm and welcome back to the Leaderboard! In today's issue: an AI exam prep life saver, a journalling app that goes back to basics, a dev tool that combines an IDE with video tutorials, and a forum discussion on what AI can and can't build.

Educato is an AI-powered platform that creates personalized study plans based on how students actually learn. It covers over 10,000 exams, works across languages and regions, and adapts to each student's pace, habits, and preferred style of learning. The goal is to replace one-size-fits-all prep tools with something more flexible and grounded in how real people study.

🔥 Our take: This didn’t come out of a hackathon or a pitch deck. It came from someone watching a student struggle and deciding the tools weren’t good enough. That shows. There’s care in how it adapts to context, attention span, and actual exam structure. It’s not trying to motivate you with badges. It’s trying to give you a fighting chance to stay on track.

iglu is a micro-journaling app for iOS that stores everything on your device. It uses on-device intelligence to link thoughts, surface older entries, and let you search by meaning. No accounts. No syncing. Just writing and retrieval.

🔥 Our take: iglu feels like a tool someone made for themselves and decided to share. It doesn’t need your data. It doesn’t ask you to optimize your habits. It just works quietly in the background, which is exactly what a journaling app should do.

Scrimba Fullstack is a browser-based dev environment for learning frontend and backend together. You start with a real tech stack—React, Next.js, Tailwind, Supabase—and build actual projects with interactive guidance layered on top. No separate tutorials, no fake projects.

🔥 Our take: This isn’t for people who want to sit through videos and feel productive. It drops you into a real environment and makes you ship something. You don’t need to configure anything, but you still get the full stack in front of you. It’s way closer to training wheels for real dev work than it is to any “learning platform.”

Shekhar Sharma used v0.dev to build an entire fitness app, protected routes, dashboards, flow logic, the works. Not a landing page, not a prototype. A thing you can actually use. Now he’s wondering if anyone else has pushed v0 this far.

It’s easy to play with these tools. It’s harder to trust them when you’re building something that matters. So if you’ve launched anything real with v0.dev, or hit a wall trying, this is the thread to get honest about it.

What did you build? Would you use it again? Did anything break when it counted?