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Ask HN: Review my Project: SpellingThing
Hi All,
I'm looking for some feedback on my web app, SpellingThing, a tool to help people improve their spelling. It's targeted at teens and adults (it seems like most spelling programs are targeted at kids). It's populated with EN-US words only (for now).
I'd love to hear what you think. What's confusing? What doesn't work for you? What's missing?
If people start using it and getting value out of it, I'd like to switch to a freemium model, so I'd appreciate any feedback in that direction too.
http://www.spellingthing.com/
- jonafato 16y agoclickable: http://www.spellingthing.com/ http://www.spellingthing.com/
- jonafato 16y agoI like the concept overall. The animations you get when you misspell a word are pleasant and informative. I didn't register, so this feature might be there, but it would be nice to always be able to see "percentage right" after completing a set of words, or some hard numbers you can compare over time. Also, is there any evidence that this will make you a better speller overall? Or will this simply help you spell words that you have spelled incorrectly on this site previously?
- Nogwater 16y agoThanks. If you register it does show you the number of rights/wrongs for each word in that training session. I'd like to add something to show overall stats so that you can see your improvement. I don't have any hard evidence to show that learning to spell words A, B, and C will also help you learn to spell D and E. Of course, at some point if you learn to spell all of the words that you use, then you're definitely better off.
- delano 16y agoPut the trainer directly on the homepage (rather than 2 clicks away).