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Hey Ben's Bites readers, it's Ilyas.

I'm a web dev. And I struggled to get a decent web dev postion for 18 months.
I realized I was doing the same thing over and over:

• apply
• get interviewed
• fail

Then after a little bit of research and testing I found the “Active Recall” i.e. flashcards method. And this was a turning point. My interview performance improved drastically.

Then peers from dev community started asking to share my flashcards. I did. But it was a very inconvenient process. As both questions and answers were in the same PDF or Notion page. I had to came with different “technics” not to unveil the correct answer before trying to answer yourself.

So I built 99cards.dev for 2 reasons:

1. Save time and focus on what matters: user logs in and immediately starts preparation process
2. Avoid headaches like saving performance statistics and recalling where you did well and where you need some work

I hope this tool will be as helpful to you as it is for me.