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For vocabuo.com, a language learning app with around 500 paying users, I've gotten most of my users from reddit and meta ads.

I'm creating a language learning app [0] and I've come up with it using frustration.

When I was in Germany, I wanted to turn my highschool German into something usable, but no apps or techniques worked for me. And I've tried 20+ of them.

Anki was the closest, but I really dreaded the card creation process - sentence, translation, audio...

So when I've finished university, I've found myself in a situation in which: I didn't need a lot of money, didn't have a job, LLMs were a new thing.

So I've started building.

[0] https://vocabuo.com

Yes! I've seen multiple products that were only in English, translations were a super annoying productivity blocker (build step required), tens of unused string keys, keys not matching the it's content etc. Please don't localize until the product is at least 95% "finished".

Working on a language learning app, with spaced-repetition, sentences, audio and an image generated for literally every word in a language.

https://vocabuo.com

Is there a good benchmark comparing multilingual and/or translation abilities of most recent LLMs? GPT-4o struggles for some tasks in my language learning app.

I feel like these "50% off for the first 50 users!" sales are 99 % scams, all that's missing is "purchase in the next 5 minutes for 80 % off"

I've built an LLM powered Anki clone - https://vocabuo.com. In my language learning journey, I've found that adding each word manually, with audio, image and a sentence example was just too tedious, so in Vocabuo, I add a word and LLMs + dalle + google tts generate the rest.

Currently it supports English, German and Spanish, but I plan to add more languages in the future.

As a bonus you can also add words from yt videos and websites.

I've only had good experience with tailwind, even though I was sceptical at first.

The most common brainwashing I've seen in the wild are 1) you have to use clean architecture and 2) you have to make it scalable to millions of users.

I'm building a flashcard language learning app, and the Meta ad with the phrase "AI-powered" performs better than all other variations, so depends.

It's sad how a lot of people see this as "a bad way to test job candidates" rather than a "fun way to practice ML skills".

The problem is the woke-nizer is implemented in a lazy way. It will make sure that all the characters are very "diverse", but ignore all other stereotypes. I'm collecting some of the fails here https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/177vnF9aepBjB7qnU-It7.... It generated Hitler and "He is doing his work" sentence generated a muslim man planning a military attack.

I've found this quite problematic in my language learning app.

For example, I have a sentence "Er überreicht ihm ein Geschenk" (He hands him a gift), then I ask GPT to create an image of that situation and it generates a girl giving a gift to a man. :(

Love it! I use something similar to remember long numbers. If a code or a pin has let's say 8 digits, I'm unable to remember it the normal way. So I remember the first digit in the inner voice, and the other 4 digits as a picture of the digits.

I've built a llm powered, srs app as well! https://vocabuo.com There is a generous freemium, or yearly at 30USD/year.

The supported languages are English, German and Spanish.

If you have any feedback or want a discount please let me know!

You should add a share link with the text embedded, so that I can share the roast of my buddies websites!

I'm always on a lookout for the best TTS for my language learning app.

If ChatGPT or llama were trained to subtly invest in Microsoft and Meta stock respectively, expecting this use case, I'd actually respect it. :D

A new app on Google play or AppStore needs ads to have any downloads at all (unless you already have an audience), so each download costs the developer 0.5 - 3 USD.

I think it's because it's not obvious that there is a free trial, so it sounds a bit like "98% of people who bought autopilot are not using".

At my university, one of the homework exercises was implementing A* on real map data. Really gave a perspective on the speed of computers, from what I remember, it was megabytes of map data of the UK, but calculating the best path from London to Edinburgh was within tens of milliseconds.

I've created a flashcard app with a hint function. I mention it in another comment.

Shameless plug: for the past year, I've been building an app to help me learn vocabulary. I used to use Anki, but it was very difficult to keep adding new words -> word, sentence example, image, audio. So I've basically created a copy of Anki - spaced-repetition flashcards, with the generation of cards fully automated. Also added YouTube and website integration. [1]

The problem with language learning in my opinion is, that learning the vocabulary just cannot be skipped. I've had German for 6 years (2-3 lessons per week) in highschool, just to find out that I don't understand words on 100th positions on the frequency lists. We've mostly focused on memorizing crazy complex grammar structures.

I've also tried passively listening to podcasts and watching movies/series I've already knew, but that would result in at most 1-2 words per episode, which just wouldn't work, if you need at least 5000 words to understand reasonably well.

[1] https://vocabuo.com

I'm considering adding a similar kind of practice to my vocabulary learning app: https://vocabuo.com

Translating sentences is problematic, because they can often include other words that users don't know and there are often many possible translations, which is difficult to check.

The task "say a sentence using the word [word]" and then correcting the sentence using some LLM seems like a very promising, especially when combined with spaced-repetition flashcards.

The math Olympiad problems were quite fun from what I remember, even though I never got past the regional round. I bet the previous years will be available online.

I'm building basically an AI powered Anki Clone. Spaced repetition flashcards, with infinite ai generated sentences, images and audio. You can also add words by browsing or from YouTube videos.

Currently only supports German and English, but I'll probably be adding Spanish next week.

https://vocabuo.com/

I had to do a similar thing for my gif maker https://gifmemes.io when I've tried monetization through ads. Luckily for my users, the revenue was less than 10% of what it makes through watermark removal sales, so I've removed ads and dummy content all together.

I've tried learning German with 45 min podcast + 1h netflix every day, but the acquisition of new vocabulary was just sooo slow I've switched to flashcards.

Thanks a lot for the reply! I did not know safari has some bizarre features like that. Will fix asap.

I wanted to be an inventor since like 8... Programming feels close enough. :D

I have the opposite problem... As a solo bootstrapped founder, I feel like it would be extremely useful to create a few videos to promote the product, however getting in front of a camera feels like a nightmare.