At least they use the latest version
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Oh. I’m sorry if it looks like I’m presenting it that way.
I was the first to react with skepticism about Kaitenji when I discovered it on Twitter. And I agree that the similarities with Wanikani are more than obvious, and even uncomfortable.
I had seen other threads dedicated to this type of tools on the forums, like in the case of Bunpro, in which the author gives support through a thread. I thought it was viable for the author to do something similar with his application, maybe I have been too naive.
I understand that it looks like I’m advertising it 
. No problem in deleting the thread if necessary. I would understand it perfectly well.
Kaitenji is objectively more advanced than Wanikani 
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I think you’ll be ok as long as the creator doesn’t come over to actively promote the product, which is clearly meant to compete and looks disturbingly similar from a design standpoint.
Looks like the author of kaitenji actual heard of all the complains for WaniKani on here and on r/learnjapanese. I always believe competition can bring the best out of each competitor and it mostly ends up benefiting the users. There are so many things Tofugu could do to make WaniKani better, but they haven’t and probably won’t in the near future. We have to end up relying on scripts for most of that. The only upgrade we’ve seen in years is them ditching their own forum software for another company’s forum software. Aside of fixing the content, not much has changed since the added 10 levels in July 2015.
Honestly, I’m surprised we didn’t see “kaitenji” happening years ago. Hopefully the author can deliver on the promised features.
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I also think competition is good, and I don’t think the team mind people discussing other products at all. But I don’t think they want people creating accounts simply to use their forum to advertise their products here.
But, but… the secrets!
I actually actively don’t want the changes asked for in about 90% of the complaints 
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WK has an impressive collection of userscripts too
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It’s just as beginner-unfriendly. 
After being asked for a bunch of “On’yomi”, it suddenly switched to “reading”.
“Enter the reading for: 山”
さん
whelp
さん (The Correct Answer is: やま)
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I wouldn’t call that user unfriendly. It first tests kanji (and therefore species which reading it is asking for) and then vocabulary (山)
I suppose I’ll elaborate then. The distinction (WaniKani’s purple vs magenta, and Kaitenji’s “On’yomi” vs “reading”) are too subtle for first time users.
Logically, the system isn’t flawed. However, remember that this is the first time user experience. It’s a common complaint here that solo kanji as vocabulary get confused. This is a similar scenario, where I didn’t recognize that I was being tested on a single-kanji vocab item, rather than a kanji.
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It’s just showing an example, I doubt the real thing would be that simple.
I wonder if this will affect EtoEto’s release date…
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I feel stalked. I looked at the website, checked out their Twitter, then a few minutes later, they followed me. :o
But in all seriousness, it looks interesting. Not sure if I’ll jump on it, but I’m curious to see how things will go.
That website literally says nothing.
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Yeah, they haven’t currently demonstrated anything other than the fact that they can run the WK-style input checker with some basic things. They have a lot of work to do to implement everything they’re promising. Promising it is easier than delivering it.
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Why?
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Competition will frequently cause development timelines to be pushed forward. Being first to market is very important.
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Shh, don’t tell anyone but… 
The usual way of SRSing grammar doesn’t work
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