I’m building a tool because translators weren’t helping me remember words
While learning languages, I noticed something strange.
I was translating a lot of words every day, but remembering almost none of them.
Translators helped me understand texts in the moment, but they didn’t really help me build vocabulary.
Another problem is that new words appear everywhere — articles, chats, videos, and conversations.
Often, there’s no good moment to save them, and even if you do, they end up scattered across notes or different apps.
Learning becomes a bit chaotic.
So I started building a small tool called Lexum to solve this for myself.
The idea is simple: translate the starting point for actually learning and remembering words.
The app is currently in pre-beta, and I'm preparing the first test group.
Curious — how do you usually save or remember new words when learning a language?
The shift from “translate → save → repeat” to a connected learning process makes sense. I’ve found that saved vocabulary can easily become a graveyard of words you intended to revisit but never actually did.
Curious what part of the new flow people testing Lexum have found most useful so far.
Thanks - “a graveyard of words” is actually a very accurate description 😄
It’s still too early to call a clear winner from tester feedback, to be honest.
What seems most useful so far is simply closing the gap between “I saved this word” and “I actually did something with it” - getting it back into practice, with enough context that it doesn’t feel like a random flashcard.
I’m starting to bring more testers in now, so I’m really curious to see whether that holds up with a larger group.
That makes sense. The interesting thing to watch now is whether that “saved → actually used” gap is consistently the part testers value, or whether something else emerges once you have more people using it.