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Cambly (YC W14) Offers On-Demand Access To Language Tutors
- trey_swann 13y agoNice work Cambly! The app is very simple and well designed. Plus, I love your logo. Immersion is clearly the way to go when learning a new language. I learned more French trying to haggle with the waiter for more ice in Biarritz, than I ever did in Madame Lefebvre’s class. I like that Cambly pairs me with a friendly native speaker rather than a professional teacher. And, I’m a big fan of the on-demand marketplace idea. Questions for Cambly: 1) Users are required to download a separate app for each language. As you add more languages a user may be learning French and Spanish simultaneously. Are there plans to merge everything into one app so that I can toggle between two different languages? 2) Do you find that users are selecting tutors based on attractiveness?
- papaver 13y agoany one know how this differs from livemocha.com?
- rrieublanc 13y agoYes, in that LiveMocha is free and Cambly charges you $20. Don't get me wrong, the concept is great, the design is awesome, but language exchange (tandems) is not foreign language teaching. There are other online services out there such as Iboux [1] that charges less than $20 for a private class with an actual professional teacher with an actual syllabus. [1] http://www.iboux.com http://www.iboux.com
- gamblor956 13y agoLiveMocha isn't in YC and won't have to pivot in a few months due to a poorly thought-out business model.
- jason_wang 13y agoBe nice. The language immersion market is big enough for quite a few companies to co-exist. Time will tell.
- vr000m 13y agoIf Cambly is WebRTC-based and are looking for a solution for measuring the media quality, drop us a note and look at our measurement API http://staging.callstats.io/api http://staging.callstats.io/api
- neoveller 13y agoHow does this differ from Verbling (YC S11)?
- MWil 13y agoWasn't this on Shark Tank?