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nspeller

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    I have not implemented this (yet). But every year around the holidays a bunch of folks request this. I tell them to buy the course, and then email me who they'd like to gift it to.…

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    Thank you! Over the years I have run a few A/B tests on the landing page. I tried some variations I thought MUST improve the conversion rate. However, this one, which is basically …

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    Ah, yeah that is misleading. Let me clarify. The landing page is what I built over the winter break, including those first 7 lessons. Since then that page has remained largely unch…

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    I built an interactive Music Theory course 8 years ago over a winter break and it continues to bring in enough to pay my rent each month. I just thought there had to be a more intu…

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    Is a better UI always the best choice? I've often wondered what impact an "enhanced ui and interface" would have on the audience HN attracts. Would more people visit? What demograp…

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    [shameless plug] I built http://lightnote.co for exactly this. Starting from basic sound waves, it teaches music theory while skipping all of the technical notation. It definitely …

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    Comment #21822855

    I wrote a course on it! https://www.lightnote.co/ It's a bunch of short, interactive lessons to help you visualize the concepts. Still going strong after about 3 years now. If you …

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    I used Tone.js to create my music theory website https://www.lightnote.co/ Using recordings from my guitar (of each and every note) I was able to build an interactive fretboard tha…

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    Nice job! I made some interactive visualizations to calculate something very similar: https://www.workfortime.com/investment-calculator/ https://www.workfortime.com/retirement-calc…

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    Hi, I'm the guy making this course. A little more about this project: I'm looking to help people who know almost nothing about photography. Maybe they've only taken photos with the…

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    Thank you! Definitely. There's a lot more I'd like to add.

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    Comment #12792395

    Thanks. Yeah, the experience on mobile devices too is admittedly pretty poor right now. I wasn't ready yet for the traffic but I'll get this fixed.

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    Comment #12792289

    This is actually my side project. It's very much unfinished but if anyone has any feedback I'd love to hear it.

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    Comment #5214544

    Cool product. However, I really had no idea what this product did from the landing page. Had to create an account, and wait for a psd to process. Then I had to click around before …

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    HN Request: Marketing and Sales for Hackers

    We're a startup composed of all hackers. We've built our product, and tested with real customers. We're ready to start spreading the word about our startup, where should we start? …