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-> You could create a mountain of educational material, apps, and tools with LLM assistance and verify it. Same result. I very strongly disagree with this. Teaching is not the same…

I'm Tom, cofounder of Ello. -> I think teaching a child to trust an LLM from a formative age is horrifically irresponsible. I largely agree, although with some nuance. One of the m…

Hey there, I'm Tom - cofounder of Ello. On the first Q: that popup is for the website. We're a consumer company and use paid marketing to reach parents. There are no advertisements…

yeah, had that feedback from a few people. Need to change that! Thanks for the feedback

Thanks!

Thanks for signing up but even more, thanks for the wonderful feedback. - We actually find the opposite. Without the promo code people are reluctant to try it. I think because it's…

Yup- It's a pretty settled debate now I think. There's a good podcast on it called 'Sold a story' that just came out. Thanks for the NYT link!

We are actually adding another language soon! (for somewhat random reasons) - we hope eventually to expand much more. And it really depends on how strict you want it - 'strict' is …

If you try it, I'd love your feedback. If youve been thinking about building this yourself I'm sure you'll have some great thoughts on what we've done well and what we could do bet…

- Five is definitely insufficient for some children (and too much for kids who really struggle and want to perfect books). We're working on giving parents the ability to get more; …

Hi John :)

Good feedback! Will work on updating the website to show that. Were you wanting to just see the specific interaction of how it works? You can see a bunch of videos users have uploa…

We still get some very confused people come to our site every now and then :)

Right now it will likely work well. It is trained on a largely US based data set and so accents within that data set will do better, but the way the model works I wouldn't expect m…

Great questions! - When a child makes a mistake or needs help we take the child through a phonics decoding exercise (scaffolded 'sounding it out'.) Right now we support reading pra…

Hi HN, We’re Elizabeth, Catalin, and Tom - the founders of Ello ( https://www.helloello.com ). Ello is an AI-powered app that mimics the one-on-one interaction of a reading tutor b…

We do lots of things, but one of the most important steps is an in-depth role-play where we go through numerous scenarios. We're not just looking for the knowledge (which given the…

This is helpful feedback. Thank you. We had the counter feedback off a free call making the service seem low value. Ideally we get the best of both worlds. Easier said than done of…

This is a harder Q! I don't 100% know but two things give me hope. First, there are so many incredible experts in early childhood right now that - IMO - are undervalued. We have so…

Didn't take it that way but thank you for saying that :) And agree! The organization Zero to Three does a great job advocating for this in the US but we're still way behind. It's n…

Thanks :)

Thanks for the kind message! Trust takes time to build definitely - and honestly, we don't do it - we wish we could! The trust-building really starts to happen in the first call wh…

Great questions! On the first, we're very cautious; we do not do diagnosis. What we do do is support parents in seeking out a diagnosis if that was the appropriate path. Our expert…

I think we're waayy to early for that but I hope we get to the stage where this is a question :) My first reaction is that our goal is to support parents and we'd want to be very c…

We don't really think of ourselves as an app (although we use an app to facilitate the service right now.) It's direct, personal support that provides the value; the app is the acc…