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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) on Sunday November 09, 2025 @10:38PM (#45872132)
There are many language-learning apps, but almost none that focus on improving conversational Hindi for kids.

Made this web app for my nephew, based in Singapore, after watching him struggle to find anyone to practice Hindi with outside of family calls (since most of his friends are Chinese). The idea is to have a 24x7 partner to speak with Hindi and make it fun. This can complement the formal Hindi classes that most kids of Indian diaspora parents take.

My nephew started using this and is enjoying it!

Link: https://www.hindispeakingtutor.in/

Looking to hear feedback from the community!

Show HN: Conversational Hindi tutor for Indian diaspora kids (5-9yrs old)

https://www.hindispeakingtutor.in/

Hi all,There are many language-learning apps, but almost none that focus on improving conversational Hindi for kids. Made this web app for my nephew, based in Singapore, after watching him struggle to find anyone to practice Hindi with outside of family calls. He rarely gets to speak Hindi with his friends who are mostly Chinese.20Mn+ Indian families live abroad, and I am sure many parents have...

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this is interesting but anyone has tried to create a small scale version of their own search engine using only their bookmark links. I am surprised why that's not more common. If someone has 5k+ bookmark links and wants only results from those links given a query, it should be straightforward.
Yes I think having an LLM generate such OnlyConnect style questions (with the right prompting) should solve for the problem this benchmark seems to have of LLMs, most likely, being trained on past years OnlyConnect questions.
Thanks for views. I can understand that such a tool might not be relevant for someone with your reading style. However, this is no manipulative algorithm. It is just a tool to help you decide your next read based on your own reading history.

Show HN: Decide your next read from any booklist basis your Goodreads history

https://bookrecommendations1-hcr77cz3ga-el.a.run.app/

Hello all! I am a fintech product manager inspired by this community to build things.The motivation to build this came while going through NYT's List 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. I wanted to see which one I could pick as my next read. I realised that I couldn't get through the descriptions of the 100 books, then go through the process of searching Goodreads ratings for each, read...

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Why not use GPT 4 embeddings instead of word2vec ? Won't that be more effective
Very good resource on building from the basics in a concise manner.
Re:Ask HN: How can non-developers build products/MVPs? on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @07:39AM (#33342237)
I want it to be more like a proof of concept. Building a scalable and fully usable long term will require a lot of investment which I don't think would be the right thing to do until I have some validation from users. Does that help?

Ask HN: How can non-developers build products/MVPs?

Hi all,I have a number of ideas for which I would like to build a MVP (a basic website, web-app) and put it out to the market and get feedback. For some people these are side-projects. However, being a non-developer makes the process rather lengthy and tedious. I have tried and built web-apps with no-code tools and also learnt web development on Flask (thanks to CS50!), however the learning...

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