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VIVA — A Defence Companion
An interactive PhD viva preparation workspace
A standalone HTML workspace for preparing your PhD viva voce. Includes 80+ curated examiner questions, tricky-question frameworks, confidence tracking, autosave, preparation checklists, and PDF export. Offline-first. No subscription.
Hi everyone! I built VIVA after seeing how fragmented and passive most viva preparation resources are. Most tools are either: static PDFs, generic question lists or long books that don’t actually help candidates rehearse answers.
So I wanted to build something that felt more like a working companion than a document.
The tool combines:
+curated viva questions,
+examiner psychology,
+answer drafting,
+confidence tracking,
+tricky-question frameworks,
+and printable exports
into a single offline-first workspace.
It’s delivered as a standalone HTML file, so there’s:
no login, no subscription, no installation and no dependency on cloud tools.
Happy to answer any questions about:
viva preparation, academic tooling or phds in general.
About VIVA — A Defence Companion on Product Hunt
“An interactive PhD viva preparation workspace”
VIVA — A Defence Companion was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 1 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #73 on the daily leaderboard. A standalone HTML workspace for preparing your PhD viva voce. Includes 80+ curated examiner questions, tricky-question frameworks, confidence tracking, autosave, preparation checklists, and PDF export. Offline-first. No subscription.
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