chrisvasselli

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   by chrisvasselli 4mo ago

   Author here. Even though I wasn’t thrilled from a user perspective about Apple adding a second ad slot to App Store search, I was generally optimistic it would help my indie app business, since Search Ads convert well for me. What surprised
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   App Store search got a second ad. My downloads stayed the same, my costs doubled(blog.nihongo-app.com)

   4 points by chrisvasselli 4mo ago|1 comments
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   by chrisvasselli 4y ago

   I'm going to add some ability to display things in romaji in the future, so users can start on some of the actual sentences before completing hiragana/katakana. Agree that getting through all the characters before starting anythin
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   by chrisvasselli 4y ago

   Planning on at least adding "this is approximately JLPT N4" kind of tags on the levels in the future.
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   by chrisvasselli 4y ago

   Awesome! Let me know if you have any feedback after playing around with it.
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   by chrisvasselli 4y ago

   Thanks for that feedback. The drawing system was originally developed for writing kanji, used in my other app Nihongo. Kanji doesn't have the same kind of long strokes that change direction as hiragana, so I could see it not behaving a
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   by chrisvasselli 4y ago

   You should check out my other app, Nihongo ( https://nihongo-app.com ), it has functionality like this, and is one of the reasons I developed it in the first place. I take DRM free ebooks and copy them into the app one chapter at
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   by chrisvasselli 4y ago

   Thanks, this is really useful. I've got some of those in my app, but this gives me a good set of features to aim for as well.
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   by chrisvasselli 4y ago

   This is really really interesting. I wonder if the data from FrameNet would be enough to reliably generate this kind of information in a Japanese dictionary, and if the license supports is usage. I'm going to explore this more, thanks.
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    by chrisvasselli 4y ago

    You can check out my other app Nihongo for this too ( https://nihongo-app.com ). :)
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    by chrisvasselli 4y ago

    Individual courses are $120, unlocking all seven is $300 (USD).
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    by chrisvasselli 4y ago

    Whoops! Japanese-learning app then.
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    by chrisvasselli 4y ago

    Kanji lessons coming soon. :)
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    by chrisvasselli 4y ago

    This is great feedback, thanks. I’ll definitely be putting pricing information on the website.
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    by chrisvasselli 4y ago

    Been thinking about adding EPWING dictionary support to Nihongo for a long time, maybe it’s time to make that happen. It seems to be the only way to get good J-J definitions in particular.
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    by chrisvasselli 4y ago

    I'm also a fan of learning kanji only in the context of words, and not on their own in a vacuum. I made the kanji decks in my other app Nihongo ( https://nihongo-app.com ) based on this philosophy. Basically, they teach you (
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    by chrisvasselli 4y ago

    Also if you're into videogames there's an amazing resource here if you haven't seen it before: https://sites.google.com/view/jo-mako/home?pli=1 Among many other things, it has a huge catalog of Japa
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    by chrisvasselli 4y ago

    For me, a big breakthrough around that level was using books (or videogames) that I've already read in English so I know the story and don't get lost when there are chunks I don't understand. If I know the story already, I ca
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    by chrisvasselli 4y ago

    If you haven't checked it out, my other app Nihongo ( https://nihongo-app.com ) is good for native content reading and making flashcards automatically from words you don't know. :)
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    by chrisvasselli 4y ago

    Would love to hear more about what makes Pleco stand out for you. I make a dictionary app as well ( https://nihongo-app.com ) and am always trying to improve it.
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    by chrisvasselli 4y ago

    Glad to hear you've had such a good experience! And you've actually given me some good ideas about how I can improve my marketing too!
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    by chrisvasselli 4y ago

    Thank you so much, I'm so glad you like it!
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    by chrisvasselli 4y ago

    Reading is one of the things I developed my other app, Nihongo, to help with. I take DRM free ebooks and copy them into the app one chapter at a time. It automatically creates flashcards for all the words that appeared that I don't alr
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    by chrisvasselli 4y ago

    Under the hood, it's actually using Google's Cloud OCR API. Not sure how well it handles 草書 or 隷書, but it does a pretty remarkable job with 行書. Also does surprisingly well with super pixelated text. I can look up words in 16-bit g
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    by chrisvasselli 4y ago

    Yotsuba-to is a great one to start with, it's actually one of the ones that there are vocab decks for in the app. :)
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    by chrisvasselli 4y ago

    Haha yes! I would LOVE to make the app for Android someday. But as a solo dev, it’s just too much to take on on my own. If Nihongo ever blows up and I make enough to hire someone to help me out, an Android app is top of my list.
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    by chrisvasselli 4y ago

    If you haven't checked it out my other app Nihongo has a good OCR + dictionary setup. You can see a demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffRxPyc9K8A iOS-only though.
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    by chrisvasselli 4y ago

    Yeah, I'm trying to fill that gap a bit here. My app Nihongo was the app I built for myself when I was getting to the advanced level, and wanted to focus on learning from native content. It helps automatically create flashcards from wo
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    by chrisvasselli 4y ago

    Oh thanks! I swear I must've read that typo 100 times and never noticed it. Good point about the pricing and 見ましょう examples, I'll consider changing it to something else.
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    by chrisvasselli 4y ago

    Great, let me know if you have any feedback!