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Nicely done! You're very welcome. I just tried it and it worked great. In case it helps - I'm not sure that I would have noticed the "Continue as guest" button
by troydavis 4y ago
Nicely done! You're very welcome. I just tried it and it worked great.
In case it helps - I'm not sure that I would have noticed the "Continue as guest" button if I hadn't been coming from a thread where we just discussed it. Because of the button's placement and style, I would have assumed it was a third account type and skimmed past it.
The app worked well! I did encounter one small issue. I picked Spanish for the language, no scenario, and it dropped me into the chat. I opened with:
> ¡hola! ¿cuál es tu desayuno favorito?
It responded by thanking me for answering its question (even though my line above was the first line in the transcript - it didn't ask a question) and asked me again what language I was learning (even though the Spanish flag is showing):
> ¡Hola! Me alegra que hayas respondido mi pregunta. ¿Qué idioma estás aprendiendo?
For grins, I tried asking it to use simpler language ("¿Puedes usar idioma basica?"). That worked.
Otherwise the only thing I noticed is that the volume/speaker icon under the robot avatar didn't seem to do anything. Not a big deal though, the text chat was good enough to experiment.
In case it gives you an idea - one thing that has worked for some SaaS apps is to embed the app right in the home page. I don't know whether it would work for your case, where a visitor needs to choose a language. Maybe that could be an engaging chat opening, though - an English prompt of "What language are you learning?" and then it continues from there in whatever language they chose. This may not be worth the effort, but maybe it'll inspire an idea :)
Finally, now that this is usable by the public, you might want to re-submit it as a "Show HN": https://news.ycombinator.com/show https://news.ycombinator.com/show . It'll get more visibility. Basically, on the HN submit form, fill out all 3 fields: a title like "Show HN: Learn a language by chatting with ChatGPT" , your link, and the comment you pasted as the body. Good luck!