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Great job! A useful resource, and it works surprisingly well on mobile. I think you should try improve the SEO quite a bit because it looks better than most of what you'll find in a search engine at the moment.

I wish there was a directory of some sort for these "specialized LLM tools". But I guess the "circle of ai" means that these custom prompts and such will eventually just be regurgitated by the models themselves, so it might get dated pretty quickly.

Just a simple app I created to to help myself with learning vocabulary contextually, and to give myself an opportunity to get instant feedback on mistakes I make in my target language.

The idea is simple: Describe an image in your target language. To help you, there are clues mapped to the image. You can interact with those clues to get example sentences, or listen to the words. Once you describe the image, you can get some (LLM) feedback. I know this is not for everyone but I personally find it super helpful. And it will also generate some smart flashcards (if you are logged in) based on any mistakes you make.

Hope you enjoy, and thanks for reading!

Also available for ios/android:

Google play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatever55....

App store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/snapalabra/id6747401847

Those prices in London are quite something!

is there a video demo available of this?

Looks like a fun little project. Is it possible to program an alarm on that device? Does it have a speaker?

Wasn't there a joke about this happening in some movie when an English soccer team manager wrote the team name on the back of a box of cigarettes. Later he had to include the inclusion of two unknown players in the selection: The players names were Benson, and Hedges.

I've found this to be the case with language learning. Its actually an enjoyable thing to do once you "get into the groove". Apps like duolingo are pretty easy for daily routines but the learning can be quite passive. I now force myself to write one sentence each day on Snapalabra, and that often leads to a highly rewarding 30 minute session.

I get the impression that there is a very good idea here but you are not selling it very well. I think a text-heavy explanation is better here than on the webpage itself.

People on this site don't tend to have much patience when being shown something new. It would be great if you could dive right in as a guest user somehow. The CTAs on the webpage are not very inviting also imo. Not many people are going to want to sign up just to try something novel.

at the moment you need to log in but I will release an update soon to remove that barrier. English <---> Spanish is supported along with a few more.

Really like this. I had considered making something similar but I wasn't sure on the best approach. I think it might be nice to add an option for the user to toggle how detailed each response is. I think for a lot of moves, you just want concise, simple feedback. But for other moves, especially mistakes, it is nice to press for more details.

Edit: What I had in mind was to actually develop something that would analyse all of my games and pinpoint some common mistakes that I always make (with the main focus on recent games). I feel that could be a really helpful tool to have.

I really like this idea.. but could this not be done for free using ollama and prepare-commit-msg? Seems like you could get a "good enough" solution together pretty easily without any cost.

how does one go about getting an invitation to that site? Looks interesting

Oh, and there is also a web app version, but it's not as full featured, or as reliable as the apps: https://app.snapalabra.com/

FYI: The features section of the website doesn't render correctly in dark-mode.

I think if you put more effort into catching the audio clearly these could be really cool background content to have on while studying etc..

These are fantastic!

Working on a visual language learning app called Snapalabra!

The idea is simple: You look at an image and describe what you see in your target language. That's basically it!

My reason for building it was that even though I can understand a lot of spoken spanish, I really struggle to construct sentences on the fly when speaking. Doing a few minutes of active learning like this each day really helps remap my brain a little, and I quickly run into situations where I hit a wall and realize I actually don't understand something as well as i had thought.

The app also gives a little feedback on what i have written from an llm, and it also provides clues that I have mapped to each image.

At the moment I am using it mainly for intermediate Spanish and beginner Irish, and personally I find it really helpful for both. Basically learning vocan for Irish, and more serious sentence structure etc. in Spanish.

I know a lot of people absolutely hate the idea of mixing LLMs with language learning, and I can kind of see why, but I personally find it really helpful in certain cases. If you are already doing classes, and consuming content in your target language I think something like this will be really helpful for a 5 minute coffee-break type activity in the morning. Its not a language course and I have not intention for it to be one. Its just a supplementary little tool that helps with getting your brain thinking in a new language and it is free to use.

Here are a few links if anyone thinks it might be interesting:

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/snapalabra/id6747401847

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatever55....

Website: https://snapalabra.com

You say things like Nebly creators save 5+ hours per week on average but you don't provide anything to back up that claim.. little things like that. I think most people would be more convinced by just seeing it in action rather than you trying to convince them, or give them reasons for wanting to use it with unconvincing promotional text.

This looks like it could be a great tool if it works well but the website maybe feels a little "scammy". I'm pretty sure even the guy's photo is AI... The image name is "efdfff99a_ChatGPTImageDec10202507_44_08PM"

This is great. UI could maybe do with a little work (better icons etc) but I've found it to be somewhat informative. Where is the data coming from?

The suggestions cover the next button even after one has been selected. It makes the UI pretty tricky to use on mobile. Otherwise its fun

Having to select an image compressor based on format seems like a redundant step.. Can the service not just automatically recognise the file format?

Can you explain more about how the image gets compressed on the client side?

Edit: I just tried it with a small png image (49kb), the site told me that it had compressed it down to 28.75kb. I downloaded the compressed version and it is 49kb..

Every time I try create anything, the lyrics are in German... Sounds great but is there some setting I can change so they are in English?

And that love letter came with a very nice mixtape. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record

I like this. It would be really cool if you included a generated code snippet, or an embeddable iframe, so that it could be added to a webpage.

FYI: The z-index on the background dropdown seems to be too low. It doesn't appear correctly on Brave browser

I could have sworn this feature came by default but I guess not. On a side-note, does anyone know of any curated list of tmux plugins similar to vimawesome?

My current setup is just a few alias commands and I use gitin instead of "git log". I really wish that tool was still in development because it provides a really nice minimalist design for exploring git repos: https://github.com/isacikgoz/gitin

Yes, it is a Germanic language. The title is a tongue-in-cheek jibe about how much the English language has borrowed from French and Latin. I believe the majority of English words come from Latin/French although the top 100 most spoken words are generally Germanic. People seem to forget that England was ruled by French speaking people for a long time, and that had a huge impact on the development of the English we speak today.

I am equally surprised and enertained by how offended some people are regarding this article.

FYI: The above sentence contains 7 words that come from old french/latin, and 7 that come from old english/german