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by gsaines 17y ago
This post really hits home for me in particular. We just launched our product about 3 weeks ago and although we're making money, it's not the big splash we'd hoped. I know that I at least had envisioned building a product, making it awesome
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by gsaines 17y ago
Nice post, I'm also studying Chinese, albeit I've only studied for one year, so I am a relative neophyte but I have to say that I've thought a lot about the topic he raises in this post. For one thing, I count fluency as the ability to unde
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by gsaines 18y ago
Hey Tacomantor, sorry to hear about the problem with the demo account. I'll talk to Scott and Nick and see what can be done about that. Edit They are currently asleep. I will let them know in the morning however. Thanks for the tip off.
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by gsaines 18y ago
Thanks for taking a look at it smoody. We were actually waiting for some of the new features to come online before we submitted ourselves to the App Engine showcase, but that's definitely happening soon now that everything is put together.
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by gsaines 18y ago
Yeah, definitely devin. What we'd like to do is create both a character decomposition system and a mnemonics system that would be seeded across users so that people can get the stories (and hopefully by association) the character lodged in
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by gsaines 18y ago
Hey cvboss, thanks for giving it a spin! Yeah, we really do need an instructional demo video on the "try it page." We actually just got the front page up, so new instructional demo videos and the like are on the way. It's good to know peopl
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by gsaines 18y ago
Thanks for the comments bdr. I designed the entire page, but as you may have noticed, I've never designed a website before, all my previous design experience has been in posters and print material. Could you elaborate on your suggestions? F
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by gsaines 18y ago
Hey gyeh, thanks for the marketing idea. It's definitely going to be hard to sell to institutions and every bit helps. Plus, I'm taking Chinese 1 right now, and since the page is all in Chinese, I can practice translating what I'm able (and
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by gsaines 18y ago
We founded Skritter just about 9 months ago. We got two grants to fund development and as the front page attests, we're just three right out of undergrad living in an apartment and developing full time. When we were first getting started, A
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Ask HN: Feedback on Skritter, Learning Chinese with Spaced Repetition on App Engine(skritter.com)
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by gsaines 18y ago
I'm starting a educational software company right now, and while I think she's on track with her criticisms of educational effectiveness (let's face it, I went to public schools and learned veritably nothing), it seems like a supremely sill