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themagyar commented on Show HN: A New Way to Learn Languages   langturbo.com... · Posted by u/sebnun
sebnun · a year ago
Are you using the app on Android web?

Currently you cannot navigate await from the screen that says "Waiting for your link click", so you will need to open the email in a different app than your browser, or in a different tab.

Sorry about the trouble, I will make this more clear in the UI. If you want you can email me at contact at langturbo dot com and I can look into it.

themagyar · a year ago
Recommend using service like clerk to make signup/in easy. (https://clerk.com/pricing). Free for first 10k users.
themagyar commented on Show HN: A New Way to Learn Languages   langturbo.com... · Posted by u/sebnun
sebnun · a year ago
Thanks for the feedback.

Note that you track your progress seeing the minutes played and the words marked as known when you click on the button on the top right in the "Profile" tab.

Is the signup not working for you?

themagyar · a year ago
No, never got email. Auto-marking words makes more sense.
themagyar commented on Show HN: A New Way to Learn Languages   langturbo.com... · Posted by u/sebnun
themagyar · a year ago
This is a great, and b/c pulling from podcasts, can handle hard languages (eg. Hungarian). Smart. Some thoughts:

- Buttons to click thru examples for words, waiting is slow

- Partial load of podcast screen (for speed)

- Playback controls for podcasts would be nice (skip, ff, 1.5x)

- Define word in hover would probably be faster/more seamless + pronunciation

- Search bar for known words + alphabetical.. (OR if heard N times -> known)

Also, get the avoidance of gamification, but would like some sort of progress tracking (mins listened, lexicon, % of top 1k frequency). Will play some more when signups work.

themagyar commented on Show HN: Book and change flights with one email   bonbook.co/showhn... · Posted by u/themagyar
ragazzina · a year ago
It works now, it ust have been an issue with the connection. It works as in: I receive an output. But it doesn't find the correct flights. My prompt was "Find a flight from X to Y on the Z of February 2025, the goal is to maximize the time spent in any layover (if the layover starts before 11 am). I prefer flying Delta but this is not mandatory".
themagyar · a year ago
BonBook optimizes for efficiency. What's your use case?
themagyar commented on Show HN: Book and change flights with one email   bonbook.co/showhn... · Posted by u/themagyar
lxgr · a year ago
I like that feature! But now I’m wondering if Google is selling that data back to airlines.
themagyar · a year ago
Maybe; BonBook never will.
themagyar commented on Show HN: Book and change flights with one email   bonbook.co/showhn... · Posted by u/themagyar
danpalmer · a year ago
My partner books a lot of travel for people who travel a lot, and while some of this is broadly true, I think the devil is in the details. They get a lot of preferences from people who arguably should only care about their time, but in reality also have comfort preferences.

When you say that shortest/fewest stopovers/shortest stops are all synonyms for efficiency, this is true, but also misses human factors. Some people prefer a single flight at nearly all costs, some people prefer to have shorter flights with stopovers even if the total time spent is slightly longer. Ask someone if they'd rather have a 45 minute stopover or a 1.5 hour stopover and I bet most would choose the latter, despite taking more time.

> time of day?? Easy, just add it to your request (works in sim too).

This also misses the fact that everything is about tradeoffs. I'd like a flight after 9am, the tool tells me that will be A$500, oh yeah, you know what I don't mind flying at 8:30am for A$200.

I think for a tool like this to work beyond a specific audience of optimisation nerds who only care about their time, it needs to treat everything as negotiable, and then present sensible alternatives outside of spec. Sacrifice time for lower stress, sacrificing seat preference for sooner flight, sacrificing airline preference based on price, sacrificing destination based on availability.

Being close to someone doing this job, and having travelled a fair bit of long haul over the last few years, I know that "efficiency" is very nuanced with personal preferences, that most people don't give even a fraction of the required information to be able to actually do this well and back and forth is necessary.

I wish you all the best of luck, if you can make it work, great!

themagyar · a year ago
Appreciate the context. That's the plan, cheers.
themagyar commented on Show HN: Book and change flights with one email   bonbook.co/showhn... · Posted by u/themagyar
ragazzina · a year ago
Still getting the "dropped the ball" and I get every time more curious to try it.
themagyar · a year ago
Logs look clear.. what are you searching for?
themagyar commented on Show HN: Book and change flights with one email   bonbook.co/showhn... · Posted by u/themagyar
pomian · a year ago
I get results everytime. Maybe not the cheapest. But it's something, and it's fast... Very fast. (Compared to going to a website.) With a very simple sentence full of acronyms that we all use buy now, it is a fun experimental tool. (Then clicking through the Google link, you can actually continue and book.) But, I agree, Skyscanner is awesome.
themagyar · a year ago
Beta turns booking into two clicks.
themagyar commented on Show HN: Book and change flights with one email   bonbook.co/showhn... · Posted by u/themagyar
namdnay · a year ago
They’re probably not distributed by whatever GDS API the app is using
themagyar · a year ago
Beta (and sim) intentionally does not search them.
themagyar commented on Show HN: Book and change flights with one email   bonbook.co/showhn... · Posted by u/themagyar
freeone3000 · a year ago
I told it to give me a direct flight and all of its flights have an Atlanta layover. It also ignored my seat pitch request, my checked bags request, and gave me only WestJet flights when Air Canada flights are cheaper.

Is this a frontend to google flights? Sabre integration might get you the info you need to do these queries.

themagyar · a year ago
The sim has limited ability to make it lightweight, free from signup and responsive in ~15 seconds.

Beta is much more capable.

GFlights is not used, link is there for comparison.

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