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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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you should reconsider, make the most if your days sounds like new years resolution that will end by the time you run of of ham

I think your comment is more a statement about you and your past experiences, because I vibe with "make the most of your days" in a positive way

Sounds like soulless generic ad copy that you see everywhere to me(respectfully, that's just how I read it).

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

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post #9

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

Equally, feels like there should be a duolingo marketplace - want to learn electronics, maths, history etc through the duolingo framework - could be 'short' courses type materials, or ongoing/never ending type learning.

I've bought a few courses from various places, but I want bite size and daily learning.

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

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One thing I noticed is the app doesn’t support larger fonts very well. Kind of a deal breaker for a lot of us. For example the login screen has text that overlaps making it very difficult to read or use.

noted, thank you for the feedback. I will improve on this. Didn't test this case during my development phase. Much appreciated

Thanks for the quick response.

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

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post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anyone should be able to view it, even without an Apple account: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/three-cells-your-life-system/i... (bottom right): > Three Cells Weekly $2.99 > Lifetime Access to Three Cells $29.99 > Three Cells Weekly $2.99 The ratio here feels a bit off, $155.48/y or $29.99 for life screams "trying to push you to pay a lot for an app I know you won't stick with" rather than "we've got great value opti…

Insanely expensive weekly subscriptions are the new (scammy) meta in B2C apps. I find it off-putting as well.

People are just hoping they can skip from "hobby project" all the way to a project that funds a couple salaries just by overcharging for subscriptions. Apps that are meant to cater towards unorganized people are the worst for this because they know you won't stick with it. A week trial is just short of how long you'll likely use it before you forget or realize it's not working for you.

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

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FWIW: 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".

Dude, that is so true. I think I agree with you and your reframing. Going to change it to that

I actually think about my life slipping away almost daily, but the reframing works too.

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

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What’s the value proposition here, exactly? You could replicate this functionality 1:1 by using a very simple spreadsheet with a couple charts - it wouldn’t take more than half an hour to make, you’d retain full control over your data and you wouldn’t have to pay $3/week for a product that can disappear at any time.

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

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post #34

Congrats, 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.

There is no free option, so hiding it under IAPs is kinda shady too.
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