👋 Hi Product Hunters and thanks to @Niv for hunting my emoji app!
1️⃣💡 Idea
Exactly when joining iubenda over 4 years ago and walking through the streets of Milan I wanted to build a basic vocabulary app with flash card effect at the heart, that would teach me the most basic words.
2️⃣💪 Solution
Then it hit me that the simplest thing I could do, was to use the emoji range. Emoji are widely known and used by a whole bunch of people and they're supposed to fill the most basic communication needs we humans have. So I began filling in spreadsheets with all emoji and seeing whether it would make actual sense in app form. I noticed that I could probably systematically put them away into different categories to make it even more useful and ended up creating some really great and silly categories that are now part of the core word learning flow within the app:
"Useful", "Smileys and People", "Professions", "Emoji faces", "Gestures", "Day", "Night", "Time", "Old technology", "Related to phones", "Animals and Nature", "Holidays", "Travel and Places", "Africa", "North and South America", "Europe", "Asia and Oceania", "Activity", "Roger Federer", "Love", "Crime", "Numbers", "Food and Drink", "Breakfast", "Objects", "At the office", "Zodiac signs", "Symbols" and "Population".
🇫🇷➡️🇮🇹➡️🇪🇸➡️🇵🇹➡️🇩🇪 Just swipe
My main thought besides basic vocabulary was to make it really easy to compare languages to each other. So this is what you can do now: swipe from left to right and compare English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and German to each other. The immediate next feature is to offer this in quiz form within the app.
🌎🌍🌏 Country quiz
All countries/flags are included, too, and in order to make this more interesting you can also guess their relative population count.
😘 Thanks and acknowledgements
My main shout out goes to my fellow maker and mentor on Learnji @Beamercola. Without him I would've never been able to build this in Swift, or as an iOS app at all.
In addition to this I would like to give a shoutout to everyone who helped make this happen in form of providing open source software parts. I'm not sure they always get the appropriate thanks, so this is my way of thanking them:
- Abbie Gonzalez (@antijingoist) for Open Dyslexic font
- Wei Wang (@onevcat) for APNGKit
- Alamofire Software Foundation for Alamofire
- Urban Apps (@coneybeare) for Armchair
- Raizlabs (@graiz) for BonMot
- Edwin Vermeer) for EVURLCache (even though I yet have to get it working properly)
- Frédéric Maquin for Instructions
- PureLayout for PureLayout
- Kevin Lin (@kevinlin) for STPopup
- Nick Lockwood (@nicklockwood) for iCarousel
- Suguru Kishimoto for Alertift
One more thing:
when I already had my upcoming page scheduled (and the app itself finished for a while), Emoji Stone launched on PH with a very similar concept. At first I thought @nickabouzeid had scheduled my app early. I wasn't sure how to handle the situation well given that I had already been ready to launch myself. So I just shut up publicly despite being a bit bummed out, until now, and I figured I could mention them and this fact here. I've sent the two makers of the app an email privately as well.
@angeliquesocial hi there Angie. I can give you a resounding yes to this question. I'm already working on support for additional languages, plus actual audio so people know how things ought to sound. :)
I support educational emoji apps wholeheartedly.
Fun Fact: I first connected with @s2imon in Berlin. Right after getting the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ tattoo Simon reached out, informing me he made the perfect iMessage app for me (he was right).
@s2imon@nivo0o0 It would be really nice to see more language apps include Hebrew as a language option. I mean, I would love to learn French and improve my Spanish, but I would love a good language app to learn Hebrew as well.
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