As someone who is both an avid language learner and a software developer - what’s the value added in this platform, for someone who is already pretty comfortable as a programmer and autodidact?
It would take a lot to convince me to pay that much for a product like this. True, it can be inconvenient trolling around for content in your target language, but as a software dev I am pretty experienced with finding obscure things on the internet by finessing search queries. And there are plenty of other apps out there that do spaced repetition for you, and open source tools and data sets that can be used to help you scrape/process vocab (again, if you don’t mind spending some time debugging, which I personally do not). Besides that, I really don’t find it that inconvenient to manually write down words/phrases from books or movies and copy them into my SR deck. On the contrary, I think this overhead actually helps the phrases stick better!
So how would you sell your site to someone in my situation? What would I get out of it?
It would take a lot to convince me to pay that much for a product like this. True, it can be inconvenient trolling around for content in your target language, but as a software dev I am pretty experienced with finding obscure things on the internet by finessing search queries. And there are plenty of other apps out there that do spaced repetition for you, and open source tools and data sets that can be used to help you scrape/process vocab (again, if you don’t mind spending some time debugging, which I personally do not). Besides that, I really don’t find it that inconvenient to manually write down words/phrases from books or movies and copy them into my SR deck. On the contrary, I think this overhead actually helps the phrases stick better!
So how would you sell your site to someone in my situation? What would I get out of it?