Any ETA on the Android app? Or mobile web?
Show HN: I spent 4 months building Duolingo but for your life
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#42FWIW: Your initial proposition, "Your days are slipping away." is a negative framing. Maybe this is a good way of appealing to people's fears, but I thought it was depressing and was not eager to read more. An alternative could be something like "Make the most of your days".
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It's a dark pattern. Would you also call it "sensitive" to want to be able to cancel a subscription without going through 3 pages, filling out a form, and convincing a call center worker?
Re: Show HN: I spent 4 months building Duolingo but for your life
#43If you are so innclined the app may serve, but reality is that you are who you are and any attempt to force your unconscious is going to fail. Be nice to yourself
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#44Congrats, maghfoor. But the lack of price transparency is a real turn-off. Nothing on the website or in the App Store — you have to download the app to find out how much it will cost you.
For what it’s worth, in the iOS App Store, you can scroll down to look at the “In-App Purchases” drop down menu, and all of the prices are shown there. This is true for every app with IAP. It’s how I typically decide if I’ll download an app with IAP.
That's helpful, thank you.
But I'm not even going to bother looking if an app can't clearly advertise its price.
It just feels like a dark pattern, like they're intentionally trying to trick me from the very start.
Maybe the price will turn out to be fine, but it's sure not building trust from the start.
Re: Show HN: I spent 4 months building Duolingo but for your life
#45Off topic, anyone building Duolingo alternative? I find the duolingo course very slow paced, gems and gamifications are just bad.
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Re: Show HN: I spent 4 months building Duolingo but for your life
#46Off topic, anyone building Duolingo alternative? I find the duolingo course very slow paced, gems and gamifications are just bad.
There's https://lingonaut.app/ , which is not open-source but at least open data. It's sort of like early-days duolingo with volunteer-driven courses. Some of the courses are surprisingly well thought out (if yet to be implemented to a usable extent), but quality will be mixed. I don't think they have an answer for proper pacing at the moment, but being a free product they're at least not incentivized to keep you repeating the same content indefinitely.
I'm getting a lot out of Anki with premade decks these days, combined with watching tons of video content.
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#47Does anyone know what makes habit trackers such a trendy project in the last few years? In a world of possibilities, why do so many people make so many habit trackers?
My take is that the right workflow for people is quite varied. Everyone wants something that’s low friction and will keep them engaged but these daily behaviors are fundamentally high friction habits, so existing solutions are rarely satisfying in the long run. They are also easy to build - you need one primitive: basic text storage, although scheduled push notifications are great to have. No need to sync stuff, no s…
> Productivity-lifestyle content influencers
100% this. They fall into the same camp as "self-help books", "life coaches", and to certain extent "spiritual gurus".
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#48Congrats, maghfoor. But the lack of price transparency is a real turn-off. Nothing on the website or in the App Store — you have to download the app to find out how much it will cost you.
So how much is it for those of us non iOS people?
Re: Show HN: I spent 4 months building Duolingo but for your life
#49Congrats, maghfoor. But the lack of price transparency is a real turn-off. Nothing on the website or in the App Store — you have to download the app to find out how much it will cost you.
So how much is it for those of us non iOS people?
My guess is it’s unavailable since it’s an iOS app
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#50Does anyone know what makes habit trackers such a trendy project in the last few years? In a world of possibilities, why do so many people make so many habit trackers?
They are a great little project to procrastinate from doing something useful.