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Show HN: A new innovative Browser extension to expand your vocabulary

burningvocabulary.com

23 pointsshawnyou19 comments

Hi there,

We launched a project to help language learners to expand their vocabulary last year. It's easy and useful tool. Please feel free to comment.

Our official website: https://burningvocabulary.com/

Thank you HNer.

Hi shawnyou!

I think you've made a great leap by releasing this product, but there are some issues that might sabotage your efforts.

The pricing page on your site is full of broken English. You've put a lot of effort into coming up with a viable business plan, and promoting your product, but it would be important to apply some finishing touches and ask a friend to proofread the site.

The extension's code is obfuscated, which is against Chrome Web Store policies. Minification is allowed, if you're looking for ways to save space. Reviewers take down obfuscated extensions once they're discovered, and they also remotely disable existing installations, so this would be important to quickly address in an update.

Hi dessant,

Really appreciate you, we will follow up the things you mentioned.

Thank you again. :)

This actually looks pretty similar to the https://jointoucan.com extension.

Hi egfx,

i just saw the extension you mentioned, it's different. Thank you for your comment.

Our official website: https://burningvocabulary.com/

It’s different in the sense that it offers language translation services while this one does not.

Crxcavator is a great tool to check out permissions and have an understand of what the extensions is doing

https://crxcavator.io/report/ljfjnlcnpmabfcgcmffkmgainghokdp...

Would recommend taking a look at the landing page in Chrome on mobile. Pics are stretched and look terrible.

Really thank you, myrloc. we will check it.

Are you planning to make it also work with Firefox? Does someone know, similar extension for Firefox?

hi ibobev, we will think about in the next month. we have much work to do. thank you for your feedback.

It would be cool if there were something like this to help me in learning Spanish.

hi purplezooey, it support Spanish as a mark language. thank you.

Why a chrome extension per se?

Hi @idclip,

i don't understand. You mean why do not support other browser?

For example yea, also why not an app?

Nice topic for the example ;)

Thank you, @mattwad :)

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