questions.japanesecomplete.com
Learning and science
language learning
SHOW HN2020
71points
33comments
#859of 3,028 in 2020
Top 29%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
1 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 10 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score -0.46.
Pricing: 0 for, 5 againstIdea: 1 for, 2 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Unique ideas such as animal stories and Iroha poem lessons
From 1 comment
Review of Japanese Complete: I used it for two months. I caution people to use a Privacy card [0] when subscribing to this service. There was no clear way to cancel or pause my…
abnercoimbre on HN
Chat-as-core Q&A model is novel
From 1 comment
That sounds great! I can't see any chat-line type questions without signing in, but it sounds a very nice idea. I got an enormous amount from wordreference.com when learning…
yesenadam on HN
Objections
Subscription price too high
From 4 comments
Review of Japanese Complete: I used it for two months. I caution people to use a Privacy card [0] when subscribing to this service. There was no clear way to cancel or pause my…
abnercoimbre on HN$50/month to use a website for learning Japanese especially when you are English speaker sounds like a ripoff. From my own experience, it's way more effective to have good old…
krimeo on HNI looked quickly through the site and I love the fact you’re using verbs instead of adjectives, as japanese does not really have them. This already made me consider subscribing.…
asutekku on HNI don't want to discourage the author but, to be honest, what I see is nowhere close to what I figure would help me to learn Japanese. Questions I see on home page have nothing…
wst_ on HN
Lessons incomplete and missing audio
From 1 comment
Review of Japanese Complete: I used it for two months. I caution people to use a Privacy card [0] when subscribing to this service. There was no clear way to cancel or pause my…
abnercoimbre on HN
Signup and login flow is poor
From 2 comments
Review of Japanese Complete: I used it for two months. I caution people to use a Privacy card [0] when subscribing to this service. There was no clear way to cancel or pause my…
abnercoimbre on HNWhen it comes to language learning, the biggest problems aren't that the QA forum isn't right in terms of how the software is designed. There's far more complex problems around…
TheDong on HN
Hard to cancel subscription and unsubscribe from emails
From 1 comment
Review of Japanese Complete: I used it for two months. I caution people to use a Privacy card [0] when subscribing to this service. There was no clear way to cancel or pause my…
abnercoimbre on HN
Design is hard to use and barely works on mobile
From 2 comments
There are many issues with the design. Why are the buttons so thin (and therefore unnecessarily hard to click)? Why is there so much space between a question title and the row of…
Camillo on HNYes, the website is barely usable on mobile. The design is really strange, as if there was a stylesheet missing.
tasogare on HN
Requests
Lower the price
From 2 comments
Fair enough, and I live in Seattle so chances of finding Japanese teachers are high. > $50/month to use a website for learning Japanese especially when you are English speaker…
abnercoimbre on HNI looked quickly through the site and I love the fact you’re using verbs instead of adjectives, as japanese does not really have them. This already made me consider subscribing.…
asutekku on HN
Add audio to lessons and play on selection
From 1 comment
Review of Japanese Complete: I used it for two months. I caution people to use a Privacy card [0] when subscribing to this service. There was no clear way to cancel or pause my…
abnercoimbre on HN
Seed the site with knowledgeable contributors and moderation
From 1 comment
When it comes to language learning, the biggest problems aren't that the QA forum isn't right in terms of how the software is designed. There's far more complex problems around…
TheDong on HN
Open-source the code
From 1 comment
Wow that's an incredible story. Thank you so much for your support. I have been thinking about open-sourcing the code because it could be useful for many other domains.
sova on HN
Questions
How is this different from HiNative?
From 1 comment
How is this different from HiNative?
plumeria on HN
Why build custom forum software rather than NodeBB?
From 1 comment
May I ask why you decided to roll your own forum software instead of using something off the shelf like NodeBB (disclaimer, I own NodeBB)? It may seem like a good idea at first…
julianlam on HN
Alternatives named
HiNative
From 1 comment
How is this different from HiNative?
plumeria on HN
italki and HelloTalk tutors
From 2 comments
Agreed, just go buy Genki 1 and 2, sign up for wanikani for kanji ($10/mo). Then spend the remainder of that $50 the months after that on hellotalk or italki sessions with a…
lunchables on HNWhere do you get classes for $50/month. I have several friends who are going to Japanese language school in Japan and cheapest is $500/month. Even on iTalk, $50 might only get…
akg_67 on HN
Genki textbooks and WaniKani
From 1 comment
Agreed, just go buy Genki 1 and 2, sign up for wanikani for kanji ($10/mo). Then spend the remainder of that $50 the months after that on hellotalk or italki sessions with a…
lunchables on HN
Yomiwa
From 1 comment
Check out Yomiwa (if you have iOS)
rrradical on HN
Nihongo app
From 1 comment
Have you checked out Nihongo?[0] I'm not a Japanese learner, but my friend Chris Vaselli built that app, and he recently added a feature that sounds like what you're…
mtlynch on HN