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by peterburkimsher
3192 days ago
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I'm making my own learning materials for self-studying Chinese. https://pingtype.github.io VoiceTube is a similar startup company that scaled this up to help people learn English. http://www.voicetube.com I have no idea how to turn my Chinese-learning data into a practical business. I emailed 100 Chinese teachers in universities around Taiwan, but didn't get any replies. If someone wants to do the business and marketing, I'm happy to give you everything I've done so far. |
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> I have no idea how to turn my Chinese-learning data into a practical business.
A couple of suggestions:
1) Find someone learning Chinese who's physically near you (so you can be in the same room) but who you don't know personally, e.g. someone at a meetup. Open your site, and give them your laptop and observe what they do. (Don't ask them questions, until they get stuck and ask for help. Just observe.)
2) Try to answer these questions:
- What do you have now (data and/or functionality)?
- To what people could those be useful?
- In which contexts?
- What else would they need in order to get started using this?
3) Try out some other Chinese learning tools (ChinesePod, Popup Chinese, Decipher Chinese, Chairman's Bao, ...) and, for each one, make notes on paper about each thing that happens after you first visit the site (or open the app). That will help you understand onboarding flows.
My email is in my profile if you'd like to discuss in detail. I'm in Beijing, so same time zone as Taiwan.