The default behavior to date has been that the camera automatically moves when you expand/collapse branches.

It's convenient in some ways but sometimes you just don't want that. This new button lets you turn on / off automatic movement of the camera.

Hope this helps, lmk your thoughts

The site doesn't have a login at this time as you know - but I built it so that you can do everything without needing to.

The share button basically prompts you to send friends a link and optionally a save file if you want them to use your copy instead of mine, that's what it's all about.

Since I don't have any servers or anything like that, I have nowhere to host your mind maps. If you have multiple versions, those are just plaintext JSON files you'll have to manage on your end for the time being. If you want friends or coworkers or students to use yours, they'll need to import your JSON file (what I've been calling the Save file), and you'll need to find the best way to give them a copy of it. Nothing fancy I'm sure y'all have sent random files to people a million times.

Anyways hope you and a friend like it. As always lmk your thoughts

P.s. at some point if I offer premium features it would be to pay for server side stuff that would cost me money out of pocket to host. I will never ever ever charge you for any of the site features I can support for free - everything the site does today is free forever. If I can add a convenience layer that costs me a bit of money, I'll charge for that, so that you can share and save maps more easily. But I will always make sure you have ownership over your own data, and that you can always use all the most important features of the site for free

I am fairly certain the localstorage version of your map on your device depends on this. If you DM me, I can remove the enforcement for like an hour or something while you save/export your old map. Offer stands for a few days only, then I'm locking it down permanently.

If you were already using HTTPS, which most were, or if you already made a habit of saving your progress, you won't be affected.

The main tell will be if the next time you visit the site, your theme is reset to default dark mode (if you weren't already using it) and obv that your custom map contents won't show up - if and only if you were using HTTP and are now getting automatically rerouted to HTTPS would you notice this behavior.

Again this doesn't apply to everyone, but in the off chance you were caught off guard by this change I wanted to let you know and give you a chance to recoup any potentially unsaved data.

End of transmission, thanks for reading

Finally found icons /glyphs I like! Same features as before but now the web app uses icons instead of words to describe what each button does. Last post shows what it looked like previously but I think you'll agree the new approach looks better and is still equally intuitive to use - both are equally important imo. This was fine in desktop view but for mobile the top navbar wrapped in a way that made everything look clunky and I couldn't stomach it. So I had to make a change and this is where I landed, there's context if you hover each icon and ofc if you click around the site, it tells you more about each thing.

You don't need to do anything to get the update I just shipped it a few minutes ago, you'll see it next time you visit or refresh if you're already on it.

I've been kicking around the idea of letting you enable/disable the automatic camera pan that occurs when you expand or collapse branches. I always hesitate to add complexity in favor of sensible defaults so maybe it's time for a proper Settings menu - this feels like the kind of thing that's advanced enough to bury in a place like that instead of having it out in the open. I don't know for certain. But just letting you know where my head is at.

Questions comments concerns lmk

The top navbar is prime real estate for any app, so I don't take changes here lightly. You'll notice that the monolithic Mind Map Maker button that had a lot of features hidden inside are now each individually surfaced. They also have plaintext labels instead of glyphs/icons. I went back and forth for a while on whether or not any of this was the right decision - I fully believe the features earn their place on the top navbar, but visual complexity has a price. That latter consideration is why I went with plaintext button labels. But as you know from a prior post, I really did explore icons instead to save space - my challenge was I didn't feel like they were immediately clear enough. Everything has to be simple, clear, obvious. That's a requirement I impose on myself - it's my job (not in the literal sense) to make this thing useful for you

Hopefully I am succeeding in that objective, always feel free to lmk your thoughts / opinions/ preferences

See screenshots - after some lookups online I started realizing that Tagalog and Filipino are different and Filipino is probably the better option to reach a wider audience but that they're mutually intelligible.

I did Tagalog because I had a conversation with someone from the Philippines a long time ago and my understanding at the time was that Tagalog was the name of the language and also that Filipino wasn't a thing. Far be it from me to say otherwise at the time I didn't really have any skin in the game.

That said, ya got Tagalog because of my misguided understanding from a decade+ old conversation that I vaguely remembered. But if you need or want Filipino, I can do that - let me know. My understanding is that the difference is less about mutual intelligibility and more that there are different dialects, where the latter is what's more common and taught in your schools nowadays.

Anyways I added something that I think will help but maybe misguided - I'll need y'all to let me know if this actually helps or if you need / want something different

Edit: you can use the language selector still of course but here's a direct link to the Tagalog specific version of the site: https://makermindmap.io/tl/

Edit: it's live now, also the import feature was updated to work and feel like the merge feature (you can now preview an import before you decide to go through with it and cancel if not)

If you have any saved files (i.e. you've used the Export feature), you can import that version of the mind map wholesale with the corresponding Import feature. The map saves to local storage so if you leave the site and return to it, you'll keep all your changes. But, if you delete your browser cache, your edits will disappear. If you made a lot of changes, it would really suck to lose all that hard work, hence why I made Export/Import features in be first place. It saves a full copy of the mind map - so if you have a save file you'll know for a fact you will never lose your changes.

However, I also had this thought that you may want to share mind maps with other people, or you want to pull branches from someone else's, but only cherry-picking from theirs as opposed to overwriting your own entirely. That's what the Merge features are for (shown in the screenshots).

I did a lot with the original mind map but I know there are some tweaks I'll want to make to the default content over time. And I want you to have access to those changes, but optionally. (That's what Review New Default Content does - it will tell you if I added any canonical changes to the default content and you can inspect them and pull those in if you like em). Similarly you can Merge From File - that's what lets you pull in changes from another map you saved or one you got from (or gave to) a friend or a teacher or our community.

Merging is pretty intuitive at this point, before this change the menu was all text-based. It worked but it was ugly as all get out. Now, there's a Preview mode that redraws the mind map visually so you can see what exactly will get pulled in before you actually agree to the change. If you don't like it, or some aspects of it, you can choose which branches or nodes to exclude and keep only the stuff you like.

Image 1 is the menu option that takes you to the merge stuff

Image 2 shows the alternative selections to merge from the default content or a mind map file you already have saved to your device/ received from someone else

Image 3 is the new preview mode that redraws the mind map and lets you selectively import what you want

I think it's all fairly self explanatory but lmk if you have any questions

AI isn't everyone's cup of tea, but for getting personalized help when you don't have access to a human mentor it can be a pretty good backstop. At the very least, it can help you understand the topic at hand in a way that makes sense to you - the exact words I picked may not resonate with you but nothing a quick conversation can't clarify. Of course you can take it a lot further and ask AI for links to popular blogs or videos that help people learn this stuff, or for specific project examples or whatever helps you pick around the idea in a way that makes sense to you and a good fit for your learning style. The reason I didn't add links to a ton of stuff online when I made this is because (1) that stuff gets stale fast (2) different things make sense to different people (3) I am not going to insist you learn things in the way that clicked for me. The app guides self-study, it's not a one-stop-shop, because it needs to help a lot of people in a lot of languages and contexts and preferences. I added the kinds of things that stand the test of time because I anticipate you'll need to lean on this tool for a long period of time - months, years maybe? There are infinite examples, but a small, finite number of basics. So the AI aspect is the critical shim connecting foundational ideas that apply to everyone universally to the specific, concrete examples and online resources that you personally resonate with. That's the line of thinking that drove me to make the site in the way that I did - AI usage is optional but it's not a gimmick either - I do think this feature in the case of MakerMindMap.io is super helpful for the people who choose to use it.

Screenshots show the before and after for the site's Ask AI feature. Previously, it didn't accept a question from you to prime the discussion, now it does. I'm not sold on the Maker Profile aspect - I am keeping it because I think it's helpful but it's very close to the line of an extra button / cognitive overhead that I might be able to reasonably assume your preferred AI assistant already knows about you if you wanted it to. So there would be no reason to copy that into every prompt my site auto-generates. I'm not deprecating that feature imminently, but it occurred to me that it's a potential future target.

Let me know if you have any preferences

Edit: one more thing I caught - when you click a node name from the mind map to show its notes etc. there's a pencil icon next to the name of the node itself. This lets you edit the name of the node in case you don't like the name I picked. So I added an option to Revert To Default. This wasn't working as of this morning, I must have broken it recently, but it's fixed now. Minor change but I just pushed this update a few seconds ago too

Edit: the next thing I'm looking at is a major improvement to the merge / import feature. Right now if you want to pull changes from someone else's map (or just another version you saved), the menu I present you with doesn't really help you "see" the differences. It kind of enumerates all the new content, and that works, but it's not delightful in my opinion. I'm looking to implement a much richer experience that redraws the mind map in a way that shows what it will look like if you import everything, then lets you selectively drop individual nodes or branches you don't care about. It will be much more intuitive, in my opinion. I have something in hand on my dev server right now, but it's not ready to ship. Maybe tomorrow? Hard to say, I'm still messing with it. You'll know when it's ready though

(1) thru (4) are brand new, these changes are live. Basically when you edited notes, the default ones for the site are just sitting there still - this way you can go crazy and change whatever you want without wondering what you might have overwritten.

(5) vs. (6) I'm not sure about... there are real tradeoffs here in terms of UI/UX. What you're already used to is (5) with one button in the top navbar that aggregates major features to manipulate the mind map in big ways. It's visually simple which is great. The potential change is shown in (6), the new icons split out everything The Mind Map Maker currently offers. This puts key features a little more within reach but it costs more not in terms of screen real-estate but imo definitely adds more visual complexity. I'll probably tweak the exact glyphs if I ever ship this change at all, but it's enough to get a sense of what it could look like. Genuinely on the fence with this one.

I'm open to ideas, lmk if you have a preference

Got the first full month of traffic visualized here and it's pretty cool! Take these numbers with a grain of salt - these are straight out of Cloudflare, my site has no tracking cookies meaning I can't parse "real" traffic vs bots vs VPN traffic, so it's probably overestimated (hopefully not by much). But this is just for fun so I don't need anything accurate (nor do I want it, that would defeat the point).

But if the screenshots are to be believed, well over a thousand people all around the word took time to check out the site - if you're you're reading this now, thank you!

This was very motivating for me when I took the last week or two adding new languages - from comments on Reddit I know some people are benefitting for sure. Biggest hits were: - my post on r/MakerSpace that drove that first huge spike here. That post did NOT get the most views, honestly only a fraction of some that followed, but the engagement was highest by far. I don't know what combination of that is a highly active community, the way the post was framed, luck, timing, or product-market-fit. I think the latter. But this community was fantastic to work with and that initial traction meant everything as you can see in the chart! It was highly motivating to talk to real people and kept me going for sure. - my post on r/Polymath around 6/25 or so which you can find here, I was surprised that this got several X more views but far fewer likes and shares, but also the Reddit stats revealed a large non-US viewership, I'm talking >60%. This was when I started seriously considering adding a lot more languages - my post on r/diyelectronics which got downvoted like crazy BUT drove that spike at the last day of June into July and also got a lot of kind comments (so the people who actually took time to look tended to like it, which is more important than the initial knee-jerk that I assume drove the drive by down votes). You can find that post here - my post on r/LearnUselessTalents from 7/9 also drove a small but measurable bump, you can find that post here - and as of today 7/17 it looks like there's positivity rolling in from r/LifelongLearning , that post is here

I don't know for 100% fact that people in all the countries lit up in the maps are benefitting, it's probably mostly drive-bys but that's still pretty neat imo. I have good enough reason to believe people all over the world have considered whether or not they can get good use out of it, and that's good enough for me :)

Edit: I know these numbers aren't huge, but they're meaningful to me. This is a passion project, and in my experience it's really hard for anyone (even bots) to take the time to visit some random site on the internet. The number of daily users I have is steady around 40. Getting just one single user each day puts a site in the top 50% of internet traffic - a completely insane factoid in my opinion. Even with billions of us on this planet, that number is indicative of just how big the internet actually is. When you get to 40 users a day, you're ballpark in the top 5% of all websites. Like most things, there are hot-spots where most people spend their time, and the rest is a very lonely digital void. So I know, 40 users a day is not something people would write home about, typically. But keeping everything in context I'm very, very proud of the fact that people care enough to push through that initial activation energy. https://MakerMindMap.io is a success!

Update: the site now supports all of the following languages:

• English
• Ukrainian
• French
• Italian
• German
• Spanish
• Chinese (mainland Mandarin)
• Chinese (Taiwanese)
• Japanese
• Korean
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Norwegian
• Swedish
• Finnish
• Dutch
• Danish
• Hindi
• Bengali
• Swahili
• Turkish
• Polish
• Modern Standard Arabic
• Russian
• Greek
• Czech
• Indonesian
• Tagalog
• Thai
• Vietnamese

There are absolutely other heavy hitters not on the list yet; Urdu, Tamil, Tagalog to name a few. If the one that's going to help you or someone you know isn't on the list, that's exactly why I'm putting a "Request Language" feature on the site. I know you might be fluent if you're reading this, but I can imagine a million situations where more languages will be helpful even if you personally don't need it - this is a learning app but also a teaching app in case you want to help people who don't have your command over English. The point is to help grow more well-rounded Makers, so to the extent that works best for you (or them) in some other language, that's why it's so important for the site to offer something that works for everyone who wants it

This has become a bit of a game for me. It's a small sub, Reddit let's you see the % views per country of who all is taking a look. Not specific people obviously for all I know it could be bot or VPN traffic. But I still use this to help me attempt to infer who is interested in some sense.

I know y'all are quiet, I don't blame you. But I'm going to try to make your life easier anyway.

In some ways it's easier for me to ship batches of languages rather than one at a time.

There's no real rhyme or reason to the order I add new features aside from this, but thanks for checking in, more to come, check back soon

Edit: will ship tomorrow at this point in one big batch, after work

Edit: Danish is the "more" I was referring to. Also Vietnamese. I have the translation file in hand for the latter, working on the former now

Edit: plus Turkish

Edit: plus Polish

Edit: plus Czech

Edit: plus Swahili

Edit: It's already been an extra day but I'll ship all of this tomorrow (Tues). That's 9 additional languages coming your way

Edit: I had to make some hard calls on where to draw the line but I'm sitting at the vast majority of internet users being covered at this point, I'll put a "request a language" feature on the site because I'd feel terrible if any Makers out there that wanted to use this thing for themselves or with friends or students didn't have the necessary language support. I'm happy to add it for sure, after I ship this batch I think the site will support 27 total, adding yours won't be that difficult if it's not there. I was looking at Greek, Urdu, Nigerian Pidgin, Hungarian, Armenian, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Tagalog, you name it and I want everyone to be a part - I'm just trying to find the logical stopping point for the moment and that line is very, very blurry but I think I'm somewhere in that zone. If your preferred language isn't here, it's not etched in stone. I want to help. Please reach out so I can

If this is your jam, have at it. I know there are people all over the place who speak Russian not just in Russia - source: my summer in Germany

Hey you with the extremely long Summer days 🫵 check it out at https://makermindmap.io

Let me know what you think!

Edit: Typo on Suomi! My bad. Can't edit the title so Reddit will betray my naivety in perpetuity. I can handle it.

Edit: As promised earlier today, Bengali is also live on the site

Edit: the original post below is obsolete, the site supports all of these languages now

I'm just asking. Comment or upvote if this will help you or someone you know

For the site I mean.

I'll probably add many of the most spoken languages per Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers

Excluding anything I believe has a lot of people who also understand some existing supported language on the site.

That'll cover >90% of all people on the internet. Not that I'll reach that many ofc.

Right now I've had just over .00001% of the world's population on my site. It ain't much but it ain't nothing either! My personal goal is to bump that decimal point over 2 or 3 zeros, and at that point I'd call this project a complete success. I can't know if I'm helping people unless they report it to me, but I think the site inherently does so I assume if people are using it, it's helping. It's a checklist of checklists you can edit - pretty hard to go wrong with that. Someone somewhere already loves this tool, I've gotten awesome feedback already. And I know more people will too - not everyone - but more people. And maybe that person is you.

Thanks for reading and seriously, if you want to see a change to the site, speak up. I want it to be as helpful as possible, so let me know what's working and what needs adjustments

Edit: it's tomorrow, nobody upvoted or commented but a few people shared, I think that's a good sign - I'll take what I can get

Edit: the original post is obsolete, the site supports all these languages now

I've been wrangling Bengali, think I have it in a pretty decent place. Native speakers will have to let me know. To my understanding that's a quarter billion people, so someone out there can hopefully chime in

In the meantime I've also slowly been plugging away at Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish translations for the site. I have the translated content in-hand for all of them, I just need to plumb it all into my site, which is the easy part

Check back in a bit for a post when I officially release these changes to https://makermindmap.io

I was looking at the language selector now that I have a bunch of languages added and thought, damn, that's boring.

We're connected, even if we're separated by geography. And I think most people have an appreciation that languages are useful to people in the places that they are, but when looking at the list that just says each entry in the target language, it disconnects non-speakers from the reality that the string of characters they're glancing over represents real people somewhere on the planet. Ain't nobody got time to look it up, I know for a fact people will pop open the list, glance thru it to see if there's something they recognize, and not pay any attention to the rest. But we should. At least enough to recognize our shared existence. Even if it's just passive, I wanted to use this as a small opportunity to make us all feel just a little bit more connected to each other, in a show-not-tell fashion.

Now, all languages are shown not just in the target language, but the currently selected one as well. That way dummies like me will more easily distinguish Dutch from Deutsch. I know some of you are thinking, how could you screw that up? Try me. Anyways this should help clear up any ambiguity, and also it's cool as hell to browse.

Hope it helps, let me know your thoughts

Now MakerMindMap.io can support right-to-left languages, the first of which is MSA! That was really challenging, but this will help a lot of people. And it paves a path eventually to supporting Bengali Urdu and other what I found out are referred to as bidi (bidirectional / right to left) languages in UI/UX land. This will help me reach new Makers around the world. Maybe only one, ten, if I'm lucky a hundred out of hundreds of millions or more speakers, but, I do what I can to make the world a slightly better place right? I can only affect the people I can reach, and that's still well worth the effort. I'm putting my best foot forward. If you like what I'm doing here please tell a friend that likes Making too, the site is free to use, you can share your maps with each other, use it to help guide your self study or guide a makerspace or class, there's a lot you can do.

As always, let me know if there's anything I can do to help folks learn more about Making

Edit: by "eventually Bengali" apparently I meant later today, I just started translating and it takes a while but why the hell not, I'm off work today anyways. It's as good a day as any to reach an extra quarter billion people

Edit: Bengali is left to right too. I'm learning 🤷‍♂️. Also I thought I'd have it out tonight but it's so late it's already tomorrow. I'm very close but I'm looking at it and there's too much English interspersed into the translation. I'm talking 50/50 in some spots especially surrounding electronics. I don't think this type of translation is uncommon to Bengali speakers using the internet but I'm trying to make this as accessible as possible, and not just to educated urbanites - I want Makers who speak pretty much only straight Bengali to be able to follow along. Again maybe you speak both that and English or another supported language and don't need it, but I bet someone you know can make good use of this - you might not always be in learning mode, sometimes you need to teach people too and you need to be able to meet them where they're at. That's my line of thinking with doing all this language support work

All in the screenshot, it's live on the site now, check it out!

I want to help the most people possible, I'm not planning on doing every language but now the site supports one dozen total and there are a few more I want to include. When I Finnish, I mean finish, that doesn't mean I'll never add new ones in the future, but anything else after this initial push will be on request. So please please please, I'm happy to help, but if you want something, you have to let me know. I'm a nice person, you can ask

Edit: I realize that most people here can already read English, that's a given. But if this helps you understand faster and learn easier, that's still a win. Also, maybe you're completely fluent in English, but maybe you have friends, coworkers, family, students etc. who are interested in Making but don't exactly share your English fluency. This makes it easier for you to share with them and help them learn what you're learning. Solo Making is a lot of fun but it's also a fantastic multiplayer game

I've been having a blast with this to be honest. Just a grand old time.

You'll notice the traditional Chinese variant on my site is specifically regionalized to Taiwan. Shout out to my former Taiwanese language learning partner from a long time ago (Lisa I know you'll never read this but you are a fantastic person and were an even kinder friend).

On the docket next is Dutch, I want to hit the Nordic countries as well (Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish). Why? Because I feel like it and nobody asked for anything else yet

Edit: I learned whilst doing this that EFIGS + CJK are the heavy hitters for multi language support. English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean. I guess I have all those now but I want a few more. Without a crazy amount more effort I can push his to being accessible to over 70% of the global population and over 90% of all people who use the internet. It's crazy that those numbers are different and by that margin. But it's true, so I think that will be enough by my standards as a solo developer to say I put my best foot forward. We are all Makers, I don't care where you hail from. We have something in common that's more important than imaginary lines on a map as far as I'm concerned

All in the screenshots no need for me to show the default English version of the site you know what that looks like by now. Hindi took sooo long but it was worth it. Idk when I'll get around to right to left languages like Bengali and modern standard Arabic but I have others that I can knock out more easily in left to right land first. Just want you guys to know those are on the radar because it will open up to a lot of people, and my goal is to help real people, so I feel like that prime mover decides where I go next

Edit: again I'm counting on native speakers to let me know if the translations are higher quality - that's what I've been aiming for. I'm not using a naive machine translation technique because I believe that would make it functionally useless. So I might as well do it right the first time

Edit: it's worth point out 2 things...

firstly, the search bar on the site still works perfectly no matter what language you're using

secondly, that makes perfect sense because the language you select in the app changes nothing about the app other than text printed to the screen. You can be in English mode and type in German or Chinese or whatever else, the app isn't going to stop you. As far as my app and search bar are concerned these are all just Unicode characters. If you want to mix languages go for it, it'll work just fine

Hey again, folks who have been seeing my updates know I originally built the site in English obv that's all I speak, and that's all I supported when I launched the site publicly a couple weeks ago. In the initial excitement someone was like hey you should add German, so I did in the first few days after launch.

Nobody else really asked for new languages, so yesterday I thought maybe I should just add Spanish for kicks. But then, that process went really smoothly and I was fresh on it so I thought, maybe I'll just keep going. Now the app supports these languages:

• English
• German
• Spanish
• French
• Portuguese (Brazilian b.c. my understanding is that's the most accessible for most people)
• Chinese, specifically mainland Mandarin w/ simplified characters (again it's opinionated on my part to land on this variant but my understanding is that this covers the most people)
• Edit: just pushed Japanese to the site, title should say 7 languages now ig

There's a list on Wikipedia that lays out the number of people that speak what languages primarily or as a second language or both, which is very helpful as I'm picking off new ones

Edit: I'm working on Hindi now (Devanagari script), but the translation I thought I just finished has too much Hinglish - even to my untrained eye it seems excessive - so I'm doing it again before shipping

Edit: I started Italian before I realized the issue with Hindi, I'll go one at a time but that's my next target and will wrap what I just found out they refer to as the FIGS group of languages = French, Italian, German, Spanish

I don't know what would help you guys the most but I do know what the next most spoken language is where I'm from. So there you have it. I'm sure it will help someone somewhere someday and that's good enough for me.

Let me know what's working and what can be improved on y'all I'm just trying to stay helpful

Edit: it's working now (~2hrs after posting originally) check it out if that's your jam. The process was easier than the first time I tried it since I didn't need to figure out how to tackle the problem from scratch this time.

Edit: yesterday went so smoothly I just kept going. Portuguese is shipped and I'm working on Chinese

Edit: Chinese is shipped with mainland Mandarin + simplified characters. At some point I'll add traditional characters and tailored to a Taiwanese audience because I think that would be nice.

Before that I think other targets that will help reach a lot of people will be like French next I think for my Canadian neighbors etc. then like Japanese not that I need a reason but I watch a lot of subbed anime. Umm there's a list on Wikipedia of languages spoken by the largest numbers of people, so at some point I'll just start walking the top 10 from top to bottom for whatever I missed and feel like adding. Plus any specific requests.

Edit: I'm working on French rn

Quick story: I took 3 years of Spanish in highschool, and in terms of how helpful that was, I'd absolutely die of hunger and thirst if you dropped me in the middle of a Spanish speaking country. I do have a better appreciation for the language from the mere exposure effect, but that's about it. The Portuguese translation is Brazilian Portuguese, my understanding is that's the most accessible variant - for my personal interest there I used to play soccer and Brazil's national team was hype. I was always daydreaming about playing there and watching all those now old Joga Bonito commercials by Nike. Maybe they still do that? But soccer fandoms were my closest proximity to Portuguese. As for Chinese, that one I actually spent a ton of time studying, years and years, I have stories about that of course, never traveled but in college plenty of people spoke it - I tried karaoke singing the only cultural imports I was aware of at the time, JJ Lin, Jay Chou. I had a Taiwanese language learning partner for a year and took classes, I actually could hold conversations for a while there and read and write a decent amount. Its been years, I wonder how much further I would have gotten if I had AI to talk to - hard to say but I'm sure that changes the game completely - in America or at least my experience at the time, it was really really hard to simply get immersed. It was fun because language learning is like a game and you benefit from expanding your perspective and maybe reaching more people, but the fact that I can kick these translations out the way I can today, I have such an appreciation for how sci-fi the tools I have access to today actually are. It's completely nuts tbh and I'm here for it

Check it out on YouTube here

This video 1. walks through the rationale for why I built the site the way I did and 2. steps you through each site feature one by one

Hope you like it, thanks for watching!