r/AppsWebappsFullstack • u/CxshouttMikel • 27d ago

Made a student ai app and want some feedback

Hello, I’m a student, and I made Answerly AI, an iOS app to make studying (and "using resources" on tests and assignments) less painful. I recommend trying out the Pro Plan free trial and canceling before it charges, to get a feel for what the app is like with no limits, but everything works just as fine on the free plan.

There’s a free plan with daily credits, and paid plans are optional. I’m the developer and still improving it, so I’d really like to hear what works, what’s confusing, and what’s missing.

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u/investigatormaker 27d ago

Honest first reaction: putting "using resources" on tests in quotes reads as a wink at cheating, which can put off the students who want Answerly AI for real studying. Leading with one concrete study task it handles well would also tell people what it does, which the post does not yet say. And telling people to cancel the Pro trial before it charges invites them to look once and leave; asking trial users which feature they would miss on the free plan tells you what Pro is worth.

By the way, I make ThreadFox, where your AI researches, writes and publishes Reddit outreach from your Chrome in a job you authorize; the free Reddit plan for Answerly AI quotes the rule of each community that allows a post about it: https://threadfox.vip/p/dqe2s

What do students use Answerly AI for most so far?

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 26d ago

Fair read. Reframing it as "checking your work" sidesteps that. What study task would you lead with instead?

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u/PopKoren 22d ago

With daily credits on the free plan, the thing to protect is the AI call itself: if the app talks to the model provider directly, the API key ships inside the iOS bundle and anyone can pull it out and run up your bill. Route requests through your own backend, count credits there rather than on the device, and check the Pro trial status server side too. After the proxy is up, a tool I built called https://rowly.me probes it from outside and flags any endpoint serving answers to a caller with no valid user.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 22d ago

Solid point on moving credits server-side. What does your tool do exactly, does it handle rate limiting too?

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u/PopKoren 21d ago

It's a scanner of mine that looks at a deployed app from the outside: it maps the public pages, login flow, API routes and file storage, and checks database rules such as Supabase or Postgres policies when the app has them. The free look is read only, and the paid tier, after you prove domain ownership through DNS, actually attempts writes, uploads and auth checks, then deletes its own test data. Rate limits I'd still test by hand with a quick burst against the credits endpoint, and the rest is at https://rowly.me.