Show HN: I am relaunching the app I made to talk to my Danish girlfriend
menerdu.comIt has been a while since I have shared my app, that I made to be able to practice my Danish while chatting with my grilfriend - I often used GPT to write as much as I can in Danish, and I replaced the words I didn't know with {Englis words in curly braces}. While this was great, it was rather annoying to type the prompt always, so I figured a GPT wrapper would work well here.
Last time when I launched, it went viral! I was super happy (and grateful!) for all the feedback and excitement — but it also meant my tokens disappeared fast, and many people ended up trying an app that no longer worked...
So… I took a step back, trimmed a few auxiliary features, and started porting the whole thing over to Supabase with proper rate limiting.
It’s still a work in progress, but the core functionality is up and running — you can write in your target language, add words that you do not know (or context) in {curly braces}, and get a corrected version with explanations.
I figured I’d share an update now instead of waiting until everything’s perfect — would love to build it in the open and keep you all in the loop this time.
Awesome. Much more pleasant to use than Google translate. Solid stuff.
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Menurdu popped up an "install this" box. Malware alert.
Hey, as it's a freemium tool, I've decided to include ads that are while full page, easy to close - to make back some of the free tokens used. I figured this would be OK - but if it gives off such an impression, then I might remove it. Or are you talking about the recommendation to add it to the phone home screen? I added that as I did that to access the website when I use it a bit easier and figured I could maybe nudge users gently, to do so if they want - more like as a reminder.
Screensnap at imgbb.com
https://i.ibb.co/QvqrWWz4/IMG-2795.jpg
When I see "install" I run. Not your fault, I'm sure, but it's a big red flag for me.
I got an add claiming that I got $500 is some online investing site, or something like that. I don't mind standard adds, but these adds are too close to scams.
I agree, even though I could tick off no adult ads, they also seem to slide in... Okay, I have to closely review this next time I try with such, for now I am just going to remove. Thanks for the feedback!
You know very well this is not acceptable. The ad network chosen and the click jack tells me you have tarnished your romance with bottom barrel scraping baddies.
Download ready, click to proceed for me. Clicking the X on the second time I loaded the site click jacked the ad itself.