Show HN: I built the literal Duolingo Killer

(kanjieight.vercel.app)

9 points | by Mikecraft 6 hours ago

12 comments

  • rand17 5 hours ago
    This is a description that turns on every red light in my head: "netflix for", "binge watching", "turning into", "keep you hooked", "but smarter" etc. - probably I'm not the target age demographic or maybe this is an American thing? Also, the meaning of literal, here, would be something like having a hamster named Duolingo and you built a gun to kill the animal. That's a literal killer appliance.
  • datenyan 5 hours ago
    To preface this, I'm not a Japanese speaker, so perhaps my fears are misplaced, but learning from anime seems like it'd present users with a very particular flavour of Japanese (i.e. one that is much more hyperactive or exaggerated than how the language might be used in day-to-day conversations between native speakers).

    That being said, if this is meant to be an alternative to Duolingo, which is insistent that you absolutely need to know that the bear wants a cup of tea, then I guess this is infinitely better in that regard.

  • freitasm 1 hour ago
    On the homepage screenshot, there's an "it's" where it should be "its".

    Details matter if teaching language.

  • b800h 3 hours ago
    By literal, I assumed that you meant that the app allowed you to kill Duo the green owl, which I am sure many people feel like doing after all the cajoling, threats and emotional manipulation that he deals out when you miss a lesson.
  • emulatedmedia 14 minutes ago
    > Learn new languages 2.7x faster with Kanji #8's proven learning method.

    Proven by whom? How did they get that number?

    Is it this some kind of satire website?

  • neatbea 2 hours ago
    This is an ai generated website scam :/
    • allanmacgregor 1 hour ago
      I think you are right, scam at worst; shady and lazy AI slop at best
  • mcny 5 hours ago
    I would love an option that doesn't require sign in with Google.
  • e12e 5 hours ago
    I kind of imagined the app would be more than a handful of random sound samples for anime with subtitles?

    I'm guessing the content is ripped (possibly legally due to the short duration - and using only(?) sound? Although if the subtitles are ripped too, I imagine that's not fair use?).

  • thecopy 5 hours ago
    >4.8 star global App Store rating

    Which app store?

  • orphea 5 hours ago
    Can you disclose if AI was used to build the app, and, if yes, in what capacity?
    • Mikecraft 5 hours ago
      The Content in the website were all hand made by me with the audio coming from a real japanese native.
      • allanmacgregor 1 hour ago
        You have nothing on the website that entices the user to start a free trial, no pricing, no examples, you listed backed by research of yale usc but there are no links to said research, this looks like AI Slop at best; Scam at worst.

        4.8 star global App Store rating except is not listed on any apps stores is it?

      • neatbea 2 hours ago
        Liar liar pants on fire, the website is made with.... ai prompts
  • luke-stanley 4 hours ago
    Old man yells at cloud: that's not what "literal killer" means.
  • frizlab 4 hours ago
    I was expecting a kind of game where you shoot the Duolingo bird. I am disappointed now.