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david_d12345on Energy crunch concerns lead Japan’s government to call for reduced AC use

Incentivizing the citizens to buy battery packs and solar, and getting off the grid.

I hope there's an economical option. If there isn't now, though, I bet there will be soon.

david_d12345on Show HN: Echo Prof – An app for studying that you can talk with

Come to think of it, it's a really cool idea - and I'd like to do it if I could justify the work involved, but if this app ends up just being for me and a dozen other people, maybe I should spend my time on Earth working on something that produces more value for people.

But let's say you study for thirty minutes each day for a month - 0.5hrs * 30days = 15 hours...

And maybe half of that time is your recordings, so 7.5 hours of recording... that's about 1gb of recordings a month...

So if you're a decent student who studies on average 30 minutes a day, that's 1gb of space on your phone a month... I have a fancy phone (that I'm not a big fan of, but that's another story), and it only holds 64gb. So your proposal is actually very doable... but it would need to be done thoughtfully... Especially if you're a diligent student and study for a number of hours each day...

Maybe that would be a way to support the app - hold the data on a paid cloud service or something for users to go to and check. I'd be happier with that than putting advertisements up.

Thanks for the good wishes!

david_d12345on Show HN: Echo Prof – An app for studying that you can talk with

Yeah! The app has all of that functionality except for the recordings. That might be cool to add in the future… it would probably take up gigabytes of space, though. Maybe when storage is smaller and less expensive

Just gotta find someone who’s into marketing to see if people will like it enough to justify continuing work on the app.

david_d12345on [dead]

Hey folks!

I built Echo Prof (echoprof.com) for mobile (iOS/Android). It's an app for studying that you can talk with. In a nutshell, it uses spaced repetition, multi-lingual speech synthesis, and multi-lingual speech recognition to reduce the effort you need to study languages.

I think lots of people would like the app if they knew it existed (evidence is that Anki community is large, Duolingo community is large).

I've been coding it for a couple years now, and I think I'm at a point where I can't really take the app much further on my own. Does anyone have any advice for finding a teammate or part-owner? It would be really helpful if I could find someone who could do a bit of marketing and maybe some design work.