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by asdf_snar 1678 days ago
I find it hard to appreciate the need for this website. First, after scrolling down to the bottom of the page, I still couldn't see where I could "start". I clicked the only prominent button featured on the page, "Product Hunt", and that took me to a clearly unrelated website. You'd think the green words "learn, practice, test, share" would be links, but nope. So after 30+ seconds of browsing it still isn't clear to me where the product was. I gave up.

Compare that with https://regexone.com/ . No fluff. I immediately know what I'm looking at and am given a simple practice problem, with a place to type smack in the middle of the page, and a responsive green coloring when I get something right. The problems advance to exactly the kind of stuff I need, with a quick view on all the lessons on the right-hand side. I'm visiting that website for the n^th time because I need to quickly refresh my regex to accomplish a task.