How can we write a story together? Simple, I write a sentence and you write the next. It's fun but do you think 10 Leo will paint a Mona Lisa with 10 times less or 10 times better?
I agree but 11labs can be too expensive something transient like a conversation. Maybe give users a choice, those who pay for it will get it. But personally it's not really a deal breaker because 11lab doesn't have Japanese and Mandarin which I'm learning, haha!
the app is great. Thank you for making this. The app encourages me to talk more about the topic, which I know sometimes human teachers don't do. I like the stop and start button so I can pause and think before I speak. I was speaking Mandarin and Japanese. It responds well when the my transcript is gibberish (my pronunciation is not perfect).I know some people will point out that it lacks phonetic feedback. But the point of apps like this is not giving feedback because to help learners build up confidence. Of course, some feedback in any form would be great. But this app is multilingual, so it's hard to you will have to prioritise some languages first. Overall, simple but effective. I know I'm being greedy, and I know it doesn't make sense when comparing with other traditional apps like Busuu or Pimsleur. But if you allow decent number of conversations with affordable price (netflix or spotify subscription price :)). I would consider buying it.
Thanks for using it! Glad it's been helpful. You get 15 free conversations per month when you sign up. If you want unlimited conversations per month, it's $4.50. Sound reasonable?
why are you being so hard on a solo entrepreneur? I'm sure making a sleek service like that takes plenty of all nighters. He is even offering a free service costing him server and costs to make API calls to an AI service. If you're concerned about privacy, be more supportive, help him sort this out or at least give him some time to sort it out. Don't assume he's being dodgy. Everyone has to start somewhere.
All joking aside, I do agree with the sentiment that no one generally has any type of defensible moat at the moment. OpenAI has found a great balancing act between first mover advantage, marketing, customer adoption, and enterprise sales. They are executing at a high level. Anthropic (Claude) has a wonderful product but is lacking in consumer adoption and sales, though I think they're working on fixing that.
All the AI companies are sort of doing a VC rush, but instead of IPO it's AGI. Would be fun to see what we get in the future. Since a serious training run costs upwards of $50 million currently.
I think the reason Claude isn't further than it is now is due to a singular goal:
Do no evil
I feel they are what Google was to search engines when they burst onto the scene. They'd rather take time to get it right than to push out a product they don't feel meets it's mark.
Now that they have entered open beta I expect them to rapidly iterate. If their product is as good as I feel it already is, in comparison to competitors, then I can only imagine what it will be doing in a year's time.
(Disclaimer: I do have exposure to Anthropic through my investments, but nothing I said is based on that alone)
