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I mean, sure, that's more or less how a company operates. You make a new product, you charge for it, you advertise it. What's the big issue? This all seems pret
by skeaker 4y ago
I mean, sure, that's more or less how a company operates. You make a new product, you charge for it, you advertise it. What's the big issue? This all seems pretty standard.
- pokpokpok 4y agothe product bad
- mgiannopoulos 4y agoHave you tried this already? Please share more of your experience
- aroo 4y agoconsidering that ChatGPT is going to run on GPT-4 and is more or less free, why would someone use this paid feature instead of talking to ChatGPT?
- mgiannopoulos 4y agoGPT-4 on ChatGPT is currently only available for paying users.
- DrammBA 4y ago> What's the big issue? This all seems pretty standard I would say this one feels more later stage capitalism than usual, all it's missing is some tiktok influesters hyping it up.
- babyshake 4y agoThe real late stage capitalism move is Duolingo building a bank into their app.
- __d 4y agoC'mon, let's make lingots (the Duo reward system) into a cryptocurrency. Reimplement the service such that people doing language lessons are the proof of work, and miners (learners) get lingots as their reward.
- MrOwnPut 4y agoHonestly, being able to build a company that creates livelihoods while simultaneously teaching people foreign languages goes against many of the historical and modern definitions of "late stage capitalism". But I assume you're just using the super modern catch-all fad term of late stage capitalism that means nothing. Also, from TFA: "Duolingo Max is available to everyone"
- jeron 4y agoDuolingo is the worst on TikTok. One of the most obnoxious accounts
- NoPicklez 4y agoHow dare you try to make money to pay your employees
- pmoriarty 4y agoTheir motivation to make money is to pay their employees?
- textninja 4y agos/to pay/and pay/ but the point stands doesn’t it?
- NoPicklez 4y agoIt's a fairly important motivator if you want a business
- wahnfrieden 4y agoBusinesses exist to minimize variable costs. Variable cost is not a motivator for owners and investors. It’s a cost.
- TheDong 4y agoYup. Having and paying employees is a good that deflects from all criticism of price. When I doubled prices in my coffee shop, at first people were unhappy, but as soon as I told them I threw out the coffee grinding machine and replaced it with 3 new jobs of "hand-grinders", people were overjoyed and immediately stopped criticizing the price increase. I was just making money to pay employees afterall. When I had to raise prices again because all the hand-coffee-grinder employees suffered severe medical injuries, everyone understood that too. ..... My point, obviously, is that hiring a bunch of employees to design ways to trick people into clicking more ads (sorry, ahem, improving user engagement) doesn't mean that the company making money is suddenly an obvious and unquestionable good that can be used as a shield from other criticism
- aleph_minus_one 4y ago> You make a new product, you charge for it, you advertise it. What's the big issue? The issue is: from beginning on and for a long time Duolingo advertised with "Learn a language for free. Forever." :-(
- hndamien 4y agoYou can still learn a language for free with Duo Lingo.
- csomar 4y agoNo. I got duped into that too. After a few sessions they required payment.
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- rezaprima 4y agoWeird, I haven't paid for quite some time
- matheusmoreira 4y agoI never had to pay for Duolingo. I decided to pay because I wanted to. It's legitimately teaching me a new language and I'm pretty happy with it.
- ossusermivami 4y agonot at all, they are pushy about you taking a premium sub but you can still learn for free...
- DennisAleynikov 4y agowhat did you click in duolingo that required payment?
- bspammer 4y agoDid you run out of hearts? Those recharge over time, you don’t need to pay.
- d23 4y agoAgreed. The main two questions, in my mind: is this actually a good product experience, and are they charging a fair price.