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joovuu | 3 years ago | on: Duolingo Max, a learning experience powered by GPT-4

Selfless plug. I created https://Heylaing.com that is basically the “role play” version of this Duolingo Max but free.

It’s been my side project to learn coding. I’m about to release android and iOS apps…hopefully later this week or early next.

joovuu | 3 years ago | on: Talk-to-ChatGPT

Shameless self plug but I built something similar: https://heylaing.com . Basically I got fed up of not being able to practice my language skills realistically (fed up of always getting precanned responses etc). I also had limited time to get a language buddy and so built this.

Originally it was just a python script, then a terrible Flask App that me and some friends used, then posted it on reddit and it went somewhere so started to develop it.

Any feedback is welcome! I'm currently working on an iOS and Android app but never built in react-native before so it's a steep learning curve.

joovuu | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

https://heylaing.com - just here to help you practice your language. I got frustrated not being able to properly practice Spanish, especially for listening and speaking and did not have time to find a practice partner so started to create something that would allow me to practice my language skills in a more realistic setting....heyLaing was born. There's a whole lot more to the story but that's the tl;dr.

It was great for me to learn how to code and design. I've always been able to code a little bit but this was my first real product. I realised I still suck at both coding and design but it's helped me so much, and helped me learn Spanish far better. It costs me about $5 a month to run this on a droplet from Digital Ocean.

It's been great for my mental health and also concentration, i love putting my Product Manager hat on and solving the 'problem' and then figuring out how I am going to code it.

I also now get about 1-3 new sign ups a day since 'launching' with a few posts on reddit a few months ago.

joovuu | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)

JooVuu X is focussed on building advanced dash cameras for the fleet and insurance market. You'll really get to be able to test your knowledge and push yourself whilst helping to save lives and reduce costs for every day drivers. We're currently looking for an Android developer intern to help write our app.

We're a very small company in the latter stages of receiving funding and as such this position will be based on being the first hire once funding is received.

For more information please email: [email protected]