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Re:Ask HN: What's your app idea that you don't have the time... by nbbaier on Thursday February 20, 2025 @11:40AM (#43116862)
I have a PhD in linguistics and have always been baffled by the lack of quality software for the types of data annotation workflows that linguists who do elicitation work with native speakers need to do. There's FLEx [0], but it's windows only and really not very good.

I'd love to build a modern, cross-platform replacement for FLEx. I just need to actually do it.

[0]: https://software.sil.org/fieldworks/

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Re:Ask HN: What's your app idea that you don't have the time... by idermoth on Friday February 21, 2025 @10:28AM (#43128550)
I studied linguistics in college but never used FLEx. Sounds like an interesting project. Why do you say it's not very good (outside being windows only) and what keeps you from starting this project?
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Re:Ask HN: What's your app idea that you don't have the time... by nbbaier on Saturday February 22, 2025 @10:58AM (#43140088)
re: Starting the project - just finding the time and motivation to do it!

re: Problems with flex - the issues are laid out really well in a recently paper! Here's a bluesky thread from one of the coauthors with a link to the pdf: https://bsky.app/profile/amaliaskilton.bsky.social/post/3lgq...

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