alt Hacker NewsSince I don’t own an iPhone, I can only give you feedback on the landing page itself:
- The font in your “Stop studying. Start speaking.” screenshots is both hard on the eyes and strangely blurry.
- Your ad copy needs an overhaul - it feels clipped and rushed.
> I built TalkBits because most language apps focus on vocabulary or exercises, but not actual conversation
There are MANY language apps which focus on actual conversation. You are in a SUPER competitive space. You need to call-out what makes your app different. In just the last few months alone (just on HN) I've seen many Foreign Language Chat Apps:
SpeakLanguageOnline – Voice-only AI language tutor
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779716
Malan Chat - Full immersion language learning app for 62 languages
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46768430
EnglishCall - AI that calls you and practices spoken English with you
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46714857
TongueFu - Gamified voice-first app for communication
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46553017
Orratio - Practice spoken English by discussing news articles
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Thank you very much for your feedback. I will work on improving the app store screenshots and their descriptions.
I really appreciate this comment. So much of marketing is "puffery" or based on what would be best for the app creator for the audience to believe. Sometimes that lines up with reality, sometimes it doesn't.
In this case the marketing copy seems more like creator wishcasting or living in the past. I've fallen into this trap before too, of creating things as if AI was a secret in my basement and not something of intense focus by a plurality of 20 million+ software developers. Rarely does a technology landscape change so fast.
How you're framing it is helpful as well. Instead of saying "this already exists (so you shouldn't do it)", I think it's valuable to highlight what a competitive space this is. The creator will need to think hard about what they can do to differentiate their offering in 2026, both in marketing and functionality.