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Re: Show HN: SubSmith – Turn your own videos into language-learning material

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I've been building something similar but targeted at bringing content that interests you to your level: https://katarineko.com . I've been learning Japanese as well and the content at my level is boring while the content I'm interested in is a wall.

Ahh nice, hope it goes well!

Re: Show HN: SubSmith – Turn your own videos into language-learning material

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I've been somewhat studying Japanese for... quite a few years now. I have yet to find the "ideal" method, but I know it must be mobile (I'm continually migrating away from sitting in front of my laptop) and something I can randomly get in and out of at any time (anything taking up dedicated batches of time eventually gets dropped or barely touched).

Re: Show HN: SubSmith – Turn your own videos into language-learning material

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In the age of LLMs, AI assisted programing and vibe coding can't this all be replicated? I'm confused why is this a yearly subscription or paid at all? This tool might as well be open source to be brutally honest.

Same goes for Dropbox - you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CSV on the mounted filesystem.

I understand your jest, but you can really vibecode your own Dropbox in this day and age.

Re: Show HN: SubSmith – Turn your own videos into language-learning material

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I've been building something similar but targeted at bringing content that interests you to your level: https://katarineko.com . I've been learning Japanese as well and the content at my level is boring while the content I'm interested in is a wall.

How does this product compare to the methodology of dreaming.com?

Re: Show HN: SubSmith – Turn your own videos into language-learning material

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> I'd find a video I wanted to learn from, hear a useful sentence, and then realise that turning that sentence into something I could study later was both time consuming and draining at times.

How does not study a sentence? You mean memorizing it later?

Re: Show HN: SubSmith – Turn your own videos into language-learning material

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I've been learning Japanese for just over a year now, and its a community that might have the highest concentration of amazing free learning apps with sentence mining capabilities, many of which do things very similarly to what you're building. Have you tried some of these? asbplayer Manatan Yomine Anki Miner AnimeCards Nagare These are just for video, there are other similar solutions for games, manga and ebooks, an…

I've only heard of asbplayer and Anki miner before, the others I haven't. It's a great space tbh, people are building all the time. For me specifically it's about trying to serve all languages to the best of my ability, alot of the ones I've come across only focus on Japanese or a small selection of languages. Also I think there's scope to improve UX and reducing friction for non tech savvy people

even for "tech savvy" people, it's great to have an easier to use UX, or at least have the option to

Re: Show HN: SubSmith – Turn your own videos into language-learning material

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I've been learning Japanese for just over a year now, and its a community that might have the highest concentration of amazing free learning apps with sentence mining capabilities, many of which do things very similarly to what you're building. Have you tried some of these? asbplayer Manatan Yomine Anki Miner AnimeCards Nagare These are just for video, there are other similar solutions for games, manga and ebooks, an…

In my experience, apps for learning japanese is a hugely saturated niche because the venn diagram of people learning japanese and people who like building software is a circle
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