[mjaques]

I sell cheap but high-quality Anki decks for language learning: https://deckmill.com

Created using a mix of automation (TTS, machine translation, etc.) and human reviews.

Built it with a friend, making around $500 a month, very stable over the last couple of years. Spend 1 or 2 hours a month on it, mostly customer support.

[rahimnathwani]

I just downloaded your sample deck for Spanish. One of the sentences is:

  Front: I'm not happy.
  Back: No soy feliz.

This doesn't seem correct to me.

I'm not happy (right now) => No estoy feliz.

No soy feliz means something like "I'm not a happy person".

EDIT: I should have mentioned that I'm not a native Spanish speaker. It turns out I'm wrong here, and that either estoy or soy would work in this case.

[lazaroclapp]

Native Spanish speaker here (ES-MX, specifically, if it matters). I think this is one of the cases where a solid general rule breaks down in the specifics.

You are correct about the difference between "ser" (to be, permanently/over an indeterminate time) and "estar" (to be in a particular state right now). But "No soy feliz" sounds perfectly idiomatic to me, even for a relatively transient state of sadness. ("No estoy feliz" doesn't sound wrong to me either, but feels just slightly less natural than "No soy feliz" even in a context like "No soy feliz ahorita", with an explicit "right now").

As a note: "No estoy contento" (Also "I am not happy", or maybe "I am not in a good mood") is definitely "estoy", rather than "soy". No clue why "No soy feliz" does feel idiomatic.

[mjaques]

You are correct, but I'd say this one is fundamentally ambiguous (I'm Portuguese myself, where this also applies), as it is a one-to-two mapping here. Without further context you can't really choose one or the other, so we just left it as is :).

[kmenon]

One feedback can you have tooltips/labels for the "Available Languages" section. Personally speaking my limited familiarity with flags makes it tough to find out how many languages are available.

[Arainach]

Cool product. One bit of feedback: after downloading a deck, the page redirects away to "how to use our decks". This is confusing and not intuitive - my workflow was that I wanted to download the Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced deck for one language and I had to navigate back to that language 3 times.

[mjaques]

Huh, that's good feedback, thanks for pointing it out - I don't think we had considered the workflow of a user downloading all the decks back to back.

[rahimnathwani]

Linking to this comment from your Show HN, which describes how your decks are different from what people can put together themselves:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25678152

[eps]

Why is there no pricing info?

[Arainach]

I read through the entire site and was convinced there was no price, but when I came back to reply I found that there is an element at the top of the homepage (next to "No subscriptions. No frills.") that says "Get access to all our decks for just €15.99."

[mjaques]

Hmm, maybe we need to make the pricing pop more :D.

[hifikuno]

On the front page it says €15.99 for access to all decks forever, including updates.

[lm28469]

> I sell cheap but high-quality

LPT: use "affordable" instead of cheap, it basically means the same thing but has a totally different connotation

[dusted]

I disagree, "affordable" is newspeak for "you're able to afford it", I don't want something that's merely affordable, I want something that's cheap!

[type-r]

How do you guys generally acquire customers?