GetBereit

GetBereit prepares people for the ÖSD and ÖIF German exams — the ones that stand between a resident of Austria and a visa, a citizenship application, or a job. I live in Vienna and watched enough people grind through this to know the study material is mostly bad.

The distribution loop

The interesting part isn't the app, it's how people find it.

Alongside the app there's a generator that produces short vertical (1080×1920) videos teaching German for the exams, built with Remotion and narrated by Azure Neural TTS in Austrian de-AT — the accent the exam is actually conducted in. Optional imagery comes from fal.ai.

Every video ends with a call to download GetBereit. But the video isn't an ad with a lesson attached — it is the lesson, and the ad is the last four seconds. Someone who watches it has already received the thing the app sells, which is the only version of this that people don't scroll past.

Because the videos are generated from a definition rather than edited by hand, the marginal cost of the next lesson is close to zero, and the catalogue can cover A1 through C1 without a studio.

Shipped

Live on the App Store in German, rated 5.0, with a separate ÖSD-focused edition alongside it.