[Alex-Programs]

I built https://nuenki.app

It's a browser extension that translates sentences that are at your knowledge level into the language your learning, thus immersing you in language learning as you browse.

It's my first foray into entrepreneurship, and I've learnt an incredible amount - both technically and in the soft skills of building the right thing and marketing it.

I'm also pretty proud of what I've built. I think it's genuinely useful, and I'm constantly upgrading it.

Earlier in the year I was still at school, and I built a novel firewall evasion system along with a report. I really ought to clean it up and publish it.

It's designed for the specific niche of corporate firewalls that only allow MITMd HTTP traffic, without even allowing websockets etc. I tested it against my school's firewall.

[gxara]

I love the concept! I see a big potential in it (I haven`t heard or researched about competitors) I’ll give it a try for Dutch and French

[Alex-Programs]

Thanks! Let me know if you have any feedback.

Toucan is the main competitor. The advantage is that it's free. The disadvantage is that the reason it's free is that it uses a dictionary to translate individual words, rather than Nuenki's method of using Deepl+Claude to include context and translate the sentence properly.

It's a matter of tradeoffs. Trying to translate single words doesn't work particularly well; single word "sentences" are actually disabled by default for Nuenki because the translations are so frequently incorrect.

Proper translation costs money, but the quality is a lot higher.