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by rahimnathwani 3191 days ago
> https://pingtype.github.io

> 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.