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I really like this idea. Simple interface, a single goal, it and it doesn't claim to be a full piano course. However, the user experience is incredibly frustrating for amateur players like myself. For some reason i have to hold down each previous note or else it fails? And often when I do play the right note I get no feedack to say so. Another thing is the annoying wait between listening to the piece and playing every time. It would be nice if user input immediately cut out the example piece

Wait, you have to hold down each previous note? So at the end of a four-note sequence you are physically depressing four keys? Hmmm... that sounds like a bug to me.

I'll look into it!


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.

Thanks a lot — that really means a lot to me! I’m glad it works well on mobile too. I’m actively working on improving SEO (cleaner landing pages, better descriptions, and more use-case pages). If you have any SEO suggestions or things you think I should prioritize, I’d genuinely love to hear them. Thanks again for the kind words!

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!

They're pretty extraordinary, but funny thing is the expensive bits of London (central, west, and bits of north) have fallen the most in real terms over the last decade!

Since 2014 most bits of central London have seen 10-30% increase, which is below inflation and far, far below stock returns. This should persuade my wife not to buy here. Thanks!

is there a video demo available of this?

https://cdn.danielfalbo.com/picturephone.mp4

Thank you for pointing out that a video may be more interesting


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

It doesn't, but since it uses a whole ESP8266 module, it's really easy to add one. I'm going to add a light sensor soon, as the time-based brightness is more annoying than I expected.

I haven't tried with ESPhome, but I think it would be easy to add some alarm code. There's no touch screen or other interface, though, so you'd have to set the alarm via Wifi.


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.


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