Hi everyone!
After recently moving from Toronto to Montreal, I was trying to become more fluent in French.
I downloaded a couple language learning apps, but quickly realized that it wasn’t helping me hold a conversation in everyday situations.
I then downloaded some language exchange apps, but it was difficult to keep the conversations going with different time zones, and my language partners weren’t always properly correcting all my mistakes.
So finally, I got a real tutor but it quickly became expensive, and I couldn’t just practice anytime, like on the bus every morning.
So I built Tutor Lily, a mobile app chatbot to help language learners like me become fluent by practicing real-life conversations with a friendly AI companion, who corrects and explains all your mistakes, making personalized tutoring both affordable and always available at your fingertips!
But this is just the beginning, I have many interesting ideas that I hope to launch in the coming months to enhance Tutor Lily's capabilities.
Excited to see what you guys think, and get all your most honest feedback!
You've done a lot of work and I hope the app got your French up to speed to satisfy Quebec! Watch out for "you have such a lovely accent" (said in English) - it's not really a compliment. Montreal is a great city but the roads really suck, way more than Toronto. At least there is a good subway system to get around the city.
The route capture of repeatedly reloading the home page to prevent the back button working cleanly is super annoying. If that's not intentional, it needs fixed and, if it is intentional, I'd remove that as it's a horrible dark pattern that is hostile to your customers.
There is no list of languages taught - I see some flags but no idea if that's the native language I'm supposed to speak already or if it is the only languages it teaches. What if I'm interested in learning a language without a flag shown? I have no idea if it is offered or not until I go through the signup process (or watch your video).
Cost isn't clear either at the start of the signup. Hiding pricing (as a menu item) until part way through signup rather than putting it right there clearly at the start of the process is a huge turn off. I'm not signing up to some mysterious app without being told the key conditions (like how much it costs) before I start.
Why should I use this app when I can sign up to any of the available AIs for a little more that can do the language tutor thing plus answer lots of additional things for me in other domains? I see it does speak the text - are there other value adds over using a regular AI ?
I like your attitude in fixing the problems you experienced with the tutor approach and failings in other apps. That's the attitude that helps things improve and I do wish you success and look forward to an update post on how things go.