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Re: Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki

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Post by thinkingtoilet »

williamsss wrote: post #49
thinkingtoilet wrote: post #5

Creating Anki decks takes time, how does Ricotta speed up the process? Does it have built in decks? If I'm learning Hindi, why should I switch? Will it really have great Hindi pronunciation? Is my data being used for anything? Congrats on the launch. The website and the product seem really slick and you should be proud. The above questions are my honest reaction to seeing your site.

It supports Hindi! I haven't had any feedback from a Hindi native nor learner. If there's any feedback you can give, even if its to say the app is shit I would appreciate your take. I have a test account and demo video I'm working on. I'll shoot it over later this week when I have one or the other so you can check it out without commitment or data concerns. Thanks for the feedback!

One more bit of feedback! It would be great if I could delete a word from my deck. Thanks again!

Re: Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki

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Post by eveames »

Just tried it. I wanted a way to switch sides of the cards so I always have to produce the phrase in the language I’m trying to learn. Also a way to deal with cards where I doubt the translation. I was trying Spanish, and there were a bunch of translations that made me suspicious, especially translating Spanish future with English present. Even if it’s used that way, seems misleading? Also think I caught a misplaced accent mark and some other translations that seemed a little off, though I’m not fluent enough to be sure.

Re: Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki

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Post by jamager »

williamsss wrote: post #68
jamager wrote: post #40

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thanks, i'd appreciate if you let me know what you think , this is still very beta

Okay I had a closer look now. Tbh I don't download anything that isn't a major brand product or open-source. I'm guessing the amount of work you put into this you're planning to monetize the app right? If so my first point of feedback would be to support either a web app or mobile app. I really enjoy the concept behind the app focusing on subjects rather than structured lessons. I enjoy going on learning rabbit holes…

Thanks!

I am the opposite, I always prefer local/offline if there is the option, I use 0 web apps.

On the video, yes, I totally need a video.

Good luck to you as well!

Re: Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki

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Post by williamsss »

jbaudanza wrote: post #13

I really like this concept, and am working on a similar product for my own self-study. I would like to see more language support. For me, I'd like to study Korean The UX around card navigation needs some work. It took me a long time to figure out that after I chose a smiley face, that I was moving to a new card. This was especially true if the next card is similar to a previous card.

hey again I added Korean for you. I plan to add romanization support over the next week or so.

Give me a shout if you have any other things you'd like to see

Re: Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki

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Post by williamsss »

eveames wrote: post #72

Just tried it. I wanted a way to switch sides of the cards so I always have to produce the phrase in the language I’m trying to learn. Also a way to deal with cards where I doubt the translation. I was trying Spanish, and there were a bunch of translations that made me suspicious, especially translating Spanish future with English present. Even if it’s used that way, seems misleading? Also think I caught a misplaced…

> I wanted a way to switch sides of the cards

Will add support for switching sides of the cards to the next release. My thought here is that once you have gotten the card correct _n_ times, you'll then will see the flipped english only side to reinforce memory recall. Albeit maybe this is better up to the user to change the mode.

I'm also playing around with another card type thats only voice and the user needs to type the answer.

> there were a bunch of translations that made me suspicious, especially translating Spanish future with English present.

There's an issue around single words vs the word in the examples. For example, "bill" in Spanish for the single card is "factura" when the examples are all using "cuenta". I'm working on improving this.

I'll run the output by a few native Spanish friends to ensure it's getting future tense correct.

Re: Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki

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Post by wahnfrieden »

williamsss wrote: post #69
wahnfrieden wrote: post #24

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If you have iOS/macOS, I've made a native app for mining Japanese web/ebook content into Anki (or Manabi Flashcards which is getting FSRS soon too): https://reader.manabi.io I'm currently working on adding first-class Mokuro integration for manga mode, bilingual user-provided or Whisper-generated captions for video, an HDMI-input mode with realtime lookups, and local/BYOK AI features. And once I add Yomichan dictiona…

I would download this if you had a latin language spin off

I'm working on going multi-lingual and will support most languages that exist on Wiktionary

Re: Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki

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Post by williamsss »

thinkingtoilet wrote: post #70
williamsss wrote: post #49

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It supports Hindi! I haven't had any feedback from a Hindi native nor learner. If there's any feedback you can give, even if its to say the app is shit I would appreciate your take. I have a test account and demo video I'm working on. I'll shoot it over later this week when I have one or the other so you can check it out without commitment or data concerns. Thanks for the feedback!

Hey William, I guess I didn't get exactly what it was from the homepage. I signed up and the service is awesome. I like how you can pick a word and get sentences made for you, that is really nice and does improve over the Anki experience. My only immediate feedback is that it would be nice to click on a single word and hear it instead of the whole sentence. Very well done. However, I am concerned that it is free. Am…

Right makes sense Duolingo has that feature as well.

Its free - I don't have plans to monetize this app. Its a passion project and at the moment costs me less than $30 a month to run. Its been a heap of fun to scale / market past what I do in my job day to day.

Re: Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki

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Post by williamsss »

thinkingtoilet wrote: post #71
williamsss wrote: post #49

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It supports Hindi! I haven't had any feedback from a Hindi native nor learner. If there's any feedback you can give, even if its to say the app is shit I would appreciate your take. I have a test account and demo video I'm working on. I'll shoot it over later this week when I have one or the other so you can check it out without commitment or data concerns. Thanks for the feedback!

One more bit of feedback! It would be great if I could delete a word from my deck. Thanks again!

You can delete cards if you review a card, flip the back and click the trashcan icon on the upper left hand side.

Ideally users are relying on the spaced repetition algorithm and should see cards they know less frequently rather than removing them from their deck.

Re: Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki

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Post by AyyEye »

ontoillogical wrote: post #18
AyyEye wrote: post #16

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> Is this intended to be a business? How do we get surprised by this costing something or disappearing in the future? The bottom says: Ricotta developed by Affineur Ventures Their website says: > Find the Perfect Buyer or Investor. Exit on Top. I give it a high likelyhood of enshittification, as soon as profitable

I believe you’re incorrect. When I google that phrase it’s from an “Affinity Ventures” which is unrelated. Affineur Ventures seems to just be a cheese themed container (hence ricotta). The website just redirects to a login screen for something called “holey triangle” https://affineur.io/ I don’t think this is a private equity side project…

Hey you're right! Thanks for catching that.

Re: Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki

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Post by AyyEye »

williamsss wrote: post #43
AyyEye wrote: post #16

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> Is this intended to be a business? How do we get surprised by this costing something or disappearing in the future? The bottom says: Ricotta developed by Affineur Ventures Their website says: > Find the Perfect Buyer or Investor. Exit on Top. I give it a high likelyhood of enshittification, as soon as profitable

I'm trying to create a brand that will sell apps outside of this app. I don't think this app is one people would pay much for its a passion project that has helped refine a business wrapper as I go through it such as Auth system, legal docs system etc.

Sorry I got the affineur/affinity thing wrong.
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