Show IH: Mynnr - Learn Grammar From Native Speakers
Hello Indiehackers,
I'm really excited to finally be posting this today! I've recently launched the landing page for mynnr, a web app that connects you with native speakers, to help you learn the grammar of your target language. With mynnr, learners can chat with native speakers and get answers to any burning grammar questions they may have, and have access to a "grammar reference" of sorts, where they can search for any grammatical structure to see how it is used within different contexts.
Over the years, I've briefly studied Japanese, Italian, and Spanish, and am now studying Korean (intermediate). As a result, I have come to the conclusion that learning proper grammar is one of the most important things one can do to improve one's language ability (of course, everyone has their own methods). However, it can be difficult to find quality grammar resources that help to explain grammatical exceptions, teach proper grammar usage, etc., so I hope that other language learners will find this useful.
Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, or critiques!
P.S. How do you think mynnr is pronounced? My guy pronounced it incorrectly when he first saw it, and I worry that others might run into the same issue...I really suck at choosing names!
Site:
https://www.mynnr.com/
Congrats on launching the landing page! It looks gorgeous, both on mobile and desktop. I am looking forward to try the full version.
Will you send updates via email? I would like to stay up to date with your project.
How do you plan to monetize it? What ideas do you have for marketing? Did you launch in other sites too, besides IH?
The feature I am looking forward the most to are the sentences and the audio (it would also be great to have the translations to other languages). Have you considered doing an API out of it? Maybe its a good way to monetize. I would use something like that.
Forvo is doing something similar, but only words instead of whole sentences. I would love to use those sentences for flashcards and for shadowing practice. Also, for acquiring new grammar patterns by getting more exposure.
I thought it was pronounced "minner", but yes it is a bit unclear.
Hey there Gabriel,
I'm really glad you like the page! I kept scrapping previous versions as I thought they were too sparse / not engaging enough.
I totally will be sending updates via email! I'm still new to content / email marketing, so the updates might be few in the beginning, but they'll start to ramp up once I get the hang of things.
As for monetization, I plan on having tiered plans. There will definitely be a free plan, but I haven't decided how much to charge for paid plans (probably going to be in the 9-12 USD range). Users on the free plan will be able to submit sentences for correction by native speakers, browse through the grammar reference (up until a certain point), and ask native speakers questions directly (up until a certain point). Users with paid accounts will be able to do all of the above + get audio for their submitted sentences and have unlimited access to the grammar reference. Any sentences in the grammar reference will have audio available to all users, regardless of what plan they are on.
I've only launched so far on IH, however I will be hitting up a couple of language subreddits, namely r/languagelearning and r/korean, in the next few days. When I have the app ready, I will post it here, on ProductHunt, BetaPages, and on various language learning subreddits. For the launch, I'm focusing on Korean as that's what I know best, but will add other languages if my MVP proves that there's interest in mynnr.
I really like the idea of having an API and will definitely implement one if there is enough interest in my app!
With regards to the name, I might end up changing it at some point since it is confusing and I don't like that it is a stereotypical startup name. I originally came up with it because of how sentence mining gained popularity back in the day and figured that since my website was like a "miner" that "mined" sentences, I'd name it as such! Lame :p
How will you entice the native speakers to join up?
I thought mynner would be pronounced "miner", but I also thought it might be "minner" with the "min" like "minimum".
Hey there IsaacJ, as for getting native speakers to join, I was hoping that language learners would help out each other. For example, since I'm learning Korean and am fluent in English, I would use mynnr to get help from a native Korean speaker, and in return I would help them with English (assuming they are learning English).
Your initial guess was correct! Mynnr is an alternate spelling for "miner" as "sentence mining" is a technique some language learners use to study grammar and vocabulary. I'm not a fan of the spelling, but it was the only version that allowed me to easily procure a domain name and social media accounts.
That is a gorgeous landing page. Where did you get the artwork?
Hey robotnoises, thank you so much for the compliment! I created the artwork myself :)