Pangea was the single supercontinent — every landmass on Earth joined into one, before everything drifted apart. I liked the metaphor: one world, one platform. A student in Tashkent, in Jakarta, in Lagos opens the same URL and gets the same tests, free.
The new name is the method: a flare of momentum to get you started, and the stamina to keep going until exam day. Same free ecosystem, same mission.
Brand names should mean something to the founder, even if nobody else gets it at first.
What started as a handful of listening tests grew into an ecosystem: 90+ listening and reading tests with instant scoring, an essay platform with AI band-score feedback, a speaking lab where students record in the browser, and a 40-day challenge tracker with streaks and a leaderboard. Every piece ships as a single self-contained file — vanilla JS, no build step, deployed on GitHub Pages with Firebase underneath.
I am self-taught across web, Python, AI and welding — the workshop and the codebase turn out to demand the same thing: measure carefully, join cleanly, and test the seam under load. I speak Uzbek, English and some Korean. Once in a while there is still a quiet Matsumi track.
If it helps one student study, it was worth making. That is the whole business model, and the whole point.
CASE STUDY · WEB · FIREBASE · SUPABASE · 2026
Flarestamina — born as pangea8 in May 2026 — started as a handful of listening tests and grew into a full ecosystem: 90+ listening and reading tests with instant scoring, an essay platform with AI band-score feedback, a speaking lab with 166 topics, and a 40-day challenge tracker — every piece a single self-contained file on GitHub Pages with Firebase underneath.
Exam prep should be free. Every year students pay for materials that could be a single URL.
The landing page went through three full design iterations in one session — a renaissance museum, cream minimalism, and finally dark hi-tech in pangea8’s own emerald — with a live product mock whose search bar types by itself. Google sign-in never blocks practice: if the popup fails, you still go straight to the tests.
CASE STUDY · WEB · FIREBASE · SUPABASE · 2026
The speaking half of Flarestamina: the whole official Jan–Apr 2026 question bank preloaded — 166 topics across Parts 1–3, numbered exactly like the real exam. A student picks a topic, taps record, and the audio uploads for the teacher to score.
Recordings are tiny, so a whole class can practise for months on the free tier — Firebase holds questions and feedback, Supabase Storage holds audio. An in-memory cache gives a cache-first first paint, search is debounced across questions and student names, and deleting an answer automatically frees its audio file.
Teachers leave band scores and notes; classmates leave peer feedback. One self-contained file, no build step.
CASE STUDY · WEB · FIREBASE · WRITING · 2026
Submit an essay, get AI band-score feedback — collapsed until you ask for it, so long feedback never clutters the list. A real-time listener makes submissions appear instantly, and essay content is sanitised before rendering.
The exam details matter: spellcheck, autocorrect and grammar underlines are disabled so students write a fair exam; a focus mode hides everything but the editor; the timer pulses and beeps in the final minute; the word count is colour-coded against the IELTS minimum.
Every essay exports as a branded PDF with the candidate’s details, word count and teacher feedback — designed to look clean in colour and black-and-white.
CASE STUDY · PWA · FIRESTORE · 2026
A complete 40-day IELTS challenge tracker: 265 tasks across Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking. Students sign in with Google, tick tasks daily, and progress syncs across devices in real time — with a progress ring, a streak heatmap and a class leaderboard.
A gated teacher dashboard lets me add or remove days, watch individual progress and track the leaderboard. Built with vanilla JS and Firebase v10 over CDN, deployed to GitHub Pages on its own domain.
This was the first product I shipped that other people actually used to study — it taught me Firebase security rules, real-time sync, and shipping something that just works.
CASE STUDY · WEB · IDIOMS · 2026
Learn English idioms by petting a cat. Every idiom is about cats, every one comes with audio and an Uzbek translation, and the whole site is small enough to load instantly on any phone.
Minnos is deliberately tiny — a reminder that a useful learning tool doesn’t need a framework, a backend, or a sign-up wall. Pet the cat, learn a phrase, come back tomorrow.
CASE STUDY · WEB · ON-DEVICE AI · 2026
Drop in a photo, pick a country’s passport or visa size, and get a print-ready document photo — with an on-device AI step that turns the background white, which most documents require.
100% client-side: no upload, no server, no sign-in. Your photo never leaves your phone.
The privacy constraint is the whole design: everything — cropping, resizing, background whitening — runs in the browser, so the tool is trustworthy by construction rather than by promise.
CASE STUDY · WEB · GAME · 2026
Guess the hidden word in six tries; tiles flip green, yellow and grey. The kind of build I love — tight rules, instant feedback, whole thing self-contained in the browser on its own domain.
The craft was in the word list: every non-five-letter word swapped out, ~80 common words added to the allowed guesses, and a hand-curated set of 128 answers. The keyboard keys were rebuilt to be big and tap-friendly on phones. Small game — the details make it feel right.