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Awesome project. Dune was the book which made me write my own dictionary app as well - https://www.vedaist.com/ !

Wiktionary dumps are around 1gb for a million words and definitions ( https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/ ) uncompressed. However this is just raw text. We have images as wel…

Nope, sorry. Vedaist has online features like sync and the word catalog of almost a million words would be too large for fully offline usage. But I've also implemented product anal…

If you're looking for an alternative dictionary on mobile, check out Vedaist ( https://www.vedaist.com/ ). The dictionary entries are based on Wiktionary ( https://en.wiktionary.or…

Context matters. I think kotlin definitely works for android developers but other cases need more thinking. If you're building webapps in smallish teams then maybe those work too. …

Completely agree on aspect of kotlin being an evolutionary dead end. For anyone interested in looking at C#, look at https://rahulrevo.substack.com/p/language-ecosystems-net and ho…

You're right on the benefits of a combined strategy right from the government to personal responsibility by citizens. Indians complied with most of these in the early phases of the…

I was traveling to India during March (Mumbai area) and immediately concerned about the lack of masks and possibility of super spreader events like kumbh - https://rahulrevo.substa…

Hey HN, Bardun is an iOS app that merges a contacts app and notes app functionality to better manage relationships. From a feature perspective notes can link to contacts. Notes are…

Monica looks great. I had the same pain point and built Bardun ( https://www.bardunapp.com/ ) as a iOS app instead of a website. Bardun brings together freeform notes and contacts …