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Blocking training has a decent amount of evidence for it in general: https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition#motor-skills

"In the end, I used ssb.fit because 1) smash.training got taken (!)"

Incidentally, I wonder if OP got frontrun by domain squatters there? It was registered December 2019, just a few months before he released. Did OP do some domain searches in December while musing about the idea?

I remember a similar experience with https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/ - I joked on Twitter about making 'thiswaifudoesnotexist.com' and a few hours later, I decided it was a funny enough idea I ought to actually make it... And I discovered the domain had just been registered. I can only assume there are domain squatters who pay for Twitter feeds, look up all domains, and purchase unregistered ones either to harvest traffic or to sell to loose-lipped people like myself. (Fortunately, I didn't need that TLD, so I refused to pay the danegeld and registered the .net instead.)



Yeah, I'm pretty sure I got front-run, because I did do some searches ahead of time. Oh, well.




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