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Show HN: Paralela, a Pay What You Want SaaS for Learning French
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- masscontrol 10y agoI guess this means I need to start learning French again ;) One small issue I have with the onboarding: it jumps right to payment, even before seeing a single lesson.
- levthedev 10y agoThere is a demo :) you can check it out at https://parale.la/demo/1 https://parale.la/demo/1, it's linked in the nav bar.
- Huhty 10y agoCool, what made you choose "pay what you want" and how is that working out? Thanks.
- levthedev 10y agoI like the Pay What You Want model because the "good" doesn't cost me any money - I've already invested the time in building the site, and at this point I only have a small amount of fixed costs (server, hosting, domain name). So if more people are incentivized to try out Paralela but only want to pay $1, or $2, then that's fine with me, because new users don't cost me anything.
- Huhty 10y agoGood answer, makes sense!
- xchip 10y agoI speak 3 languages, so I know what it takes to learn one. And I fail to see how just typing can help you learn any french :( Sorry to be the bearer of the bad news.
- levthedev 10y agoThe point of this is to help with vocabulary and spelling, not to teach you French from scratch. As someone who also speaks 3 languages, I can tell you personally that typing out sentences in foreign languages that I speak helps me retain vocabulary and spelling. Also, just to clarify, but is the live translation working for you? Some older browsers and folks with noscript/ad blockers on have reported the translation not working, and I can see how you'd think this is not very useful if that feature is not working properly.