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Show HN: I spent 4 months building Duolingo but for your life

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Re: Show HN: I spent 4 months building Duolingo but for your life

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Post by apprishiate »

Hey, congrats on the launch! I think the onboarding was really interesting -- love the different illustrations. For consumer apps, everything needs to be as easy as possible, because you're competing with YT Shorts, TikTok (crack-level distractions). On iOS, I hit one roadblock where the keyboard blocked the "next" button -- small detail, but that required some thinking.

I was also keen to see how the whole system fits into my life before I paid, and since it take 66 days ;) I thought it would be nice to see if it actually worked before I decided to pay. Just a thought. I almost made it all the way through!

Curious how you used AI to migrate the website into an app. Could you share more about that process?

Great job -- shipping something is always exciting and doing so in such a short timeframe is something to be proud of.

Re: Show HN: I spent 4 months building Duolingo but for your life

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Post by joshuanapoli »

paulgerhardt wrote: post #8
maghfoor wrote: post #2

APP NAME - Three Cells: Your Life System Some history: A couple of days ago my app finally got approved and released on app store. Overall really happy with the release. Now I finally have something that I use every single day. Whereas previously I was using various different apps to journal, track habits, track my weight and manage tasks etc. Now I have all of that in one place. Initially it was a website that I bui…

Impressive work for a solo effort. Would love to see less front loading on the registration side - I fell off onboarding because I couldn’t get through the 12(!) page questionnaire. The value proposition is clear, just let me use the app. Notes (my current solution for this) doesn’t make me read summaries of other people’s research every time I open the app :-)

Yeah, maybe it would be nice to have a fast-track onboarding option for common goals: lose weight, finish homework or chores, etc.

Re: Show HN: I spent 4 months building Duolingo but for your life

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Post by dalejh »

est wrote: post #9

Off topic, anyone building Duolingo alternative? I find the duolingo course very slow paced, gems and gamifications are just bad.

Not a duolingo alternative, but I recently built a (WIP) web app for journaling in your target language with LLM-powered feedback and in-context word discovery.

I built it for myself as I wanted to practice writing in my target languages, while also wanting to learn new words... The idea was that hopefully I would remember the words if I could associate them to my journal for that day.

It's a little clunky, but give it a go if you're interested!

Right now it's a bring-your-own claude token model, but let me know if you're not comfortable with that.

https://lingolog.app/

Re: Show HN: I spent 4 months building Duolingo but for your life

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Post by visava »

est wrote: post #9

Off topic, anyone building Duolingo alternative? I find the duolingo course very slow paced, gems and gamifications are just bad.

I am trying prospanish (prospanish.co.uk) free lessons on youtube. I think this approach of pyramid/Lego learning is fastest and easiest way to quickly learn how to converse.

Re: Show HN: I spent 4 months building Duolingo but for your life

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Post by maghfoor »

peppetv4 wrote: post #10

Nice! Exactly the things i try to log in my daily note, with the addition of streak visualization, boom! How is the data stored? Didnt find anything on the site, exportable?

Thank you for the lovely comment!

It's stored in a VPS hosted convex backend. I'm currently building functionality to export data :)

Re: Show HN: I spent 4 months building Duolingo but for your life

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Post by maghfoor »

apprishiate wrote: post #11

Hey, congrats on the launch! I think the onboarding was really interesting -- love the different illustrations. For consumer apps, everything needs to be as easy as possible, because you're competing with YT Shorts, TikTok (crack-level distractions). On iOS, I hit one roadblock where the keyboard blocked the "next" button -- small detail, but that required some thinking. I was also keen to see how the whole system fi…

Hey thank you so so much for the thorough feedback, it's very much appreciated! I will have a look at these bugs and fix them. I mostly just get time to work on this on weekends and evenings so progress is a bit slow but better than nothing nonetheless

Re: Show HN: I spent 4 months building Duolingo but for your life

#19

Post by maghfoor »

paulgerhardt wrote: post #8
maghfoor wrote: post #2

APP NAME - Three Cells: Your Life System Some history: A couple of days ago my app finally got approved and released on app store. Overall really happy with the release. Now I finally have something that I use every single day. Whereas previously I was using various different apps to journal, track habits, track my weight and manage tasks etc. Now I have all of that in one place. Initially it was a website that I bui…

Impressive work for a solo effort. Would love to see less front loading on the registration side - I fell off onboarding because I couldn’t get through the 12(!) page questionnaire. The value proposition is clear, just let me use the app. Notes (my current solution for this) doesn’t make me read summaries of other people’s research every time I open the app :-)

Thanks for the feedback, I will implement something to skip onboarding maybe for users who clearly understand the value proposition

Re: Show HN: I spent 4 months building Duolingo but for your life

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Post by chamomeal »

est wrote: post #9

Off topic, anyone building Duolingo alternative? I find the duolingo course very slow paced, gems and gamifications are just bad.

I started watching Dreaming Spanish videos and started improving like 10x faster than with duolingo. At least with comprehending other people speaking.
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