moneymarketing wrote on 28^th Aug, 2014 at 8:33pm:

Btw, is your app only available for iphone or can we get it on android?
I've looked it up but can't seem to find it.. and unfortunately I'm not much of an Apple fan..

moneymarketing wrote on 22^nd Sep, 2014 at 8:38pm:

That's sad, I noticed your ad on Paidverts and would really like to try it.. (..with Spanish)

moneymarketing wrote on 11^th Oct, 2014 at 5:40pm:

Nice one!
Lol.. I can't even imaging if you tried to use that way to learn Greek or German..
That would become really messy with such weird types of Grammar..

It would still be quite funny to try it though.

I finally talked them into letting this go free. I had wanted at least a free 'lite' version from the start but they wanted it to be all paid. It flopped as a paid version (it could be the hundreds of other free versions it had to compete with but I could be wrong  ) but we seem to be getting a little traction in my initial test runs on the free version.

I can market free. That shouldn't be a problem. If I can build up the user base then we can install advertising on it for relatively low cost and go from there (another format I was interested in at the start).

So my goal for this in the upcoming year is to at least get the user base up to 10K or so (we are just over 500 due to previous free promotions etc.). That should help it to go viral or at least create perpetual motion with word of mouth, app store prominence etc. Then it will be worth it to pay for an advertising platform installation. They already have one in their other free apps so it should not cost too much to upgrade. Plus paidverts should be rolling strong at that time so I can always fund it out of that income if necessary

So Sublangua phase II here we come! 

SolidSnake wrote on 21^st Dec, 2014 at 8:34pm:


Not without ----->

They actually can make a web version where you could surf to a page and it would translate words in the page. So you could learn a language as you surf. I think the build quote they got for android, ipad, webversions etc. was about $10K. There is no way I'm going to shell out that kind of money for something that is not bringing in any revenue 

Their ability to market is limited (alongside their marketing skills) and my market is the PTC industry which is notoriously difficult to get money out of so we need to do this the hard way and the product has to pay for itself. If we could generate 10K in ad sales within the app, I'm all for rolling it into upgrading the app and putting out different versions, but not until.

I didn't survive throwing money at something that wasn't producing revenue (except possibly 90% of my PTC investments  ....but even those at least strung me along  so that I am at this point --->producing cash flow). I'm more than willing to let this die if it must. Trying to pump it up when people aren't paying for the service is an exercise in pride. There are a lot of people in the poor house due to that exercise

Currently, there are about 500 million iphone users and millions of people in the US alone that want to learn Spanish for obvious reasons. If we can't succeed there, we don't deserve to be in any other phone market