Fluentsubs
Languages and libraries
language learning
SHOW HN2025
40points
6comments
#1,434of 3,837 in 2025
Top 38%of 2025 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
0 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 3 comments about the project.
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What HN said
What people liked
Seen as a good-looking, worthwhile product in the language learning space.
From 1 comment
Always excited to see others working in the language learning space! (Korean & English in my case) Signed up and played around a bit, but was unable to get a video transcribed.…
Ilasky on HN
Objections
Video transcription failed with errors and low audio quality warnings.
From 1 comment
Always excited to see others working in the language learning space! (Korean & English in my case) Signed up and played around a bit, but was unable to get a video transcribed.…
Ilasky on HN
Translations from GPT-style models can be wrong and need checking.
From 1 comment
Always excited to see others working in the language learning space! (Korean & English in my case) Signed up and played around a bit, but was unable to get a video transcribed.…
Ilasky on HN
Requests
Support for Arabic.
From 1 comment
No support for Arabic?
throwaway638637 on HN
Support for South Asian languages such as Hindi and Bengali.
From 1 comment
Congrats on your release! I'm working on a parallel text project where LLMs are used for a number of translation and transformation tasks (www.abal.ai) so it's nice to see what…
Falimonda on HN
Questions
How quality control is handled for translations.
From 1 comment
Always excited to see others working in the language learning space! (Korean & English in my case) Signed up and played around a bit, but was unable to get a video transcribed.…
Ilasky on HN
How the supported language set was chosen.
From 1 comment
Congrats on your release! I'm working on a parallel text project where LLMs are used for a number of translation and transformation tasks (www.abal.ai) so it's nice to see what…
Falimonda on HN