uSpeech - the story of a startup
Hello! I would like to share with you thoughts about your startup.
For a start, what is it all about:
The service solves the problem of developing vocabulary and cleaning up the Russian language with our users.
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After authorization in the application (only VKontakte is available now) you will receive ratings of your words, and then you will receive tasks. Each task contains 2 points:
1. A word that is best not to use at all
2. The word that you should try to replace synonyms
After sending a certain number of messages, your task is checked and depending on the success of the execution your rating changes.
How things developed:
Initially, for fun, there was a service WeSpeakIt, which gave users only the statistics of words that they and their interlocutors use most often. People used it, it was fun (without any investment in the project in a couple of weeks I had about a hundred people who are interested in it).
Every second (if not the first) had a question:
“Well, I see my frequent words. I don't like the fact that I use them so often. Can I do something about it? ”
It was after such questions that the idea for the uSpeech project began to emerge. Looking on the Internet for something like “ways of developing speech, expanding vocabulary, etc.,” we found only some general advice that was not tied to a specific person. Read books and everything in this spirit advises hundreds of articles. And there is no service.
During the three months of the project’s existence, a server was written, a test application for Android, the first clients were attracted and even ... the first pre-subscription was sold (when a person could not even use absolutely nothing.
The application now looks like this:
Designers are not hired, everything was invented on the knee, quickly, "To be."
Development
A lot of benefits were gained with the help of the FRIA pre-accelerator and the GoTech forum.
Now the main tasks are to get investments and attract attention.
It would be very interesting to hear your opinion in the comments regarding everything that comes to your mind.
More about all the stages of service development, about the team and everything in our blog on VK page.
Service site: uSpeech
If you want to support the project financially - help us on the site Planet: uSpeech - the planet (or at least share the link in social networks)
Subscribe, read, and most importantly - comment. Thank you all!
PS If someone wants to help with programming, marketing, linguistics - write, always welcome any help!
For a start, what is it all about:
The service solves the problem of developing vocabulary and cleaning up the Russian language with our users.
')
After authorization in the application (only VKontakte is available now) you will receive ratings of your words, and then you will receive tasks. Each task contains 2 points:
1. A word that is best not to use at all
2. The word that you should try to replace synonyms
After sending a certain number of messages, your task is checked and depending on the success of the execution your rating changes.
How things developed:
Initially, for fun, there was a service WeSpeakIt, which gave users only the statistics of words that they and their interlocutors use most often. People used it, it was fun (without any investment in the project in a couple of weeks I had about a hundred people who are interested in it).
Every second (if not the first) had a question:
“Well, I see my frequent words. I don't like the fact that I use them so often. Can I do something about it? ”
It was after such questions that the idea for the uSpeech project began to emerge. Looking on the Internet for something like “ways of developing speech, expanding vocabulary, etc.,” we found only some general advice that was not tied to a specific person. Read books and everything in this spirit advises hundreds of articles. And there is no service.
During the three months of the project’s existence, a server was written, a test application for Android, the first clients were attracted and even ... the first pre-subscription was sold (when a person could not even use absolutely nothing.
The application now looks like this:
Designers are not hired, everything was invented on the knee, quickly, "To be."
Development
A lot of benefits were gained with the help of the FRIA pre-accelerator and the GoTech forum.
Now the main tasks are to get investments and attract attention.
It would be very interesting to hear your opinion in the comments regarding everything that comes to your mind.
More about all the stages of service development, about the team and everything in our blog on VK page.
Service site: uSpeech
If you want to support the project financially - help us on the site Planet: uSpeech - the planet (or at least share the link in social networks)
Subscribe, read, and most importantly - comment. Thank you all!
PS If someone wants to help with programming, marketing, linguistics - write, always welcome any help!
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/341532/
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