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abhas9··on Show HN: Multiplayer game to help non-native English speakers improve vocabulary
Yup - we have plans to expand it to other languages and cover more useful word lists. The QR Code option will definitely be a nice addition, though we have code sharing feature in android app over WhatsApp and other available apps.
abhas9··on Show HN: Multiplayer game to help non-native English speakers improve vocabulary
Thanks :)
abhas9··on Show HN: Multiplayer game to help non-native English speakers improve vocabulary
That's a cool suggestion. I think that will definitely be a useful addition. -Thanks
abhas9··on Show HN: Multiplayer game to help non-native English speakers improve vocabulary
Thanks.
abhas9··on Show HN: Multiplayer game to help non-native English speakers improve vocabulary
Thanks for your valuable feedback. We are glad that you enjoyed it.

We want to test the user engagement with a very minimum product first. All these features are in our mind.

You can expect the timer in the upcoming release :)

abhas9··on Show HN: 100K sentences mined from Wikipedia to help non-native English learners
Thanks for the feedback. I understand that the current UX is very unintuitive as this was a one day hack which I published online. I will add a description and search feature soon.

Regarding Pronunciation and definitions: I am exploring the possibility of integrating "Wordnet" by Princeton University. I will try to integrate it as soon as possible.

abhas9··on Show HN: 100K sentences mined from Wikipedia to help non-native English learners
Yes, this app is also a part of an initiative to make learning simpler and fun.
abhas9··on Show HN: 100K sentences mined from Wikipedia to help non-native English learners
Thanks for pointing this out. Will fix this soon.
abhas9··on Show HN: 100K sentences mined from Wikipedia to help non-native English learners
Thanks for your awesome feedback. And yes this is just the initial ground work and part of a larger experiment. We are also trying to teach English using Bollywood movies and GIFs[1]. I agree that human editing is very important and as such upvote/downvote button feature is in pipeline next.

[1] https://buildmyvocab.com/ddlj.html

abhas9··on Show HN: 100K sentences mined from Wikipedia to help non-native English learners
That's a great question. Optimizing for sentence selection is important for teaching. For now, I have a simple check that filters out sentences which are longer than 160 characters.

Also, I believe that this is one thing which humans can do better. I, therefore, plan to add upvote & downvote buttons to rate the quality of sentences.

abhas9··on Ask HN: Website builder tool ( Need to create 3000 websites )
Try using some CMS like wordpress (easier), Joomla or Drupal.

You may also have a look into static site generators like Jekyll, Hugo, and others.

abhas9··on Show HN: 10kApart entry that allows you to generate less than 10KB landing pages
Thanks for the feedback. We have kept 10kB size limit because it is an entry for 10k apart event. ( A Challenge that asks you to build a compelling web experience that can be delivered in 10kB and works without JavaScript.)

Regarding conversion: We have focused on minimal design which encourages users to click call to action buttons using several techniques described in InstaPages blog & several other sources.

You may read more at: https://github.com/abhas9/ideadeck

abhas9··on Show HN: 10kApart entry that allows you to generate less than 10KB landing pages
If you find any bug please let us know at https://github.com/abhas9/ideadeck/issues

or twitter.com/Abhas9

abhas9··on MD5 Visualization Generator. Text to Image
Nice work. Is it possible to generate a CSS3 gradient code for these gradients? That would be cool.
abhas9··on Qualities of clean code
Someone very experienced once told me: "For one change in requirement there should me one change in your code. That's a clean code. If you can achieve it without any change in code, it's even better."

This quote always sticks in my mind :)

abhas9··on ASK HN: Ideas for 10k Apart contest
Check out the telescope app project. (definitely not 10kB but really interesting)
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