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Re: Show HN: LearnLingo – Converse with an AI-powered language tutor

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Hey! Before I trust your site with my data - who are you? Your HN account seems to have been created only to present this one project. Do you have a website, or are you on Twitter or anything? Who is the legal entitiy referred to in "© 2023 LearnLingo. All rights reserved."?

Privacy policy would be a good start.

Re: Show HN: LearnLingo – Converse with an AI-powered language tutor

#12

Pretty cool, I had a little chat in german and then the last translate button wouldn't work, the chat disappeared after I clicked around the rest of the interface. Main thing that seems missing is there is no feedback on the grammar and spelling or things that should be said, so perhaps you need a second model + prompt to analyse the inputs of the user in relation to the conversation and critique it as a language tea…

Thanks for the feedback! Apologies for the issues you found, but I'll get onto fixing them.

Grammar correction and suggestions are something that are on the top of my feature list; I hope to have them released shortly!

Re: Show HN: LearnLingo – Converse with an AI-powered language tutor

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post #6

Hey! Before I trust your site with my data - who are you? Your HN account seems to have been created only to present this one project. Do you have a website, or are you on Twitter or anything? Who is the legal entitiy referred to in "© 2023 LearnLingo. All rights reserved."?

Hello! I'm Callum, a solo developer based in Australia. This is my first project, though I have been lurking around HN for a while now.

A privacy policy is in the works and will be put out for display ASAP.

Re: Show HN: LearnLingo – Converse with an AI-powered language tutor

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Would be nice to try it out without signing up.

I like the landing page style; did you use a theme/template? I feel like I've seen this style on a lot of tech products -- whilst I really like it, I don't think it matches the nature of the site/product in this case.

What advantages do you offer over ChatGPT, other than the text messages?

Re: Show HN: LearnLingo – Converse with an AI-powered language tutor

#17

I make pretty heavy use of chat-gpt for language learning it's pretty good. But there's some overhead in tuning the prompting to get what you want, if this could cut down on that I'm interested. I know this is a new product so it will come eventually, but the mobile experience is really bad, lots of people are gonna want to use this out and about, so it should at least be useable, atm it's not.

Totally agree; the mobile experience is terrible atm. I'm currently working on fixing it!

Re: Show HN: LearnLingo – Converse with an AI-powered language tutor

#18
post #5

Very nice! I suspect a lot of people will be dismissive of this, same way people dismiss the usefulness of inaccurate tools such as Google translate for learning languages. Similarly to Google translate, though, I believe this can be very useful if the user remains critical of the output. It would not surprise me if this becomes a "must have" tool for language learning in the future. My only major complainants so far…

Thanks for the feedback! I agree that the mobile experience is far for acceptable, but this is something I am actively working on at the moment. Also, Japanese is a language that is planned to be supported in the near future!

Re: Show HN: LearnLingo – Converse with an AI-powered language tutor

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I don't even know what languages are supported. All you can do is view a pretty landing page, or sign up. I don't want to sign up unless I know what I'm getting... so it's a pass for now.

Too many sites like this come and go, and just harvest info.

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