Comment by barrell
5 days ago
Phrasing.app | CTO | EU Remote
I've spent the last 18 months iterating on Phrasing, a language learning app for polyglots. It's finally reached a stable point, and we're starting to get Daily Active Users. I've been using it every day for over a month now to learn over a dozen languages, and have been blown away at my progress.
However, I've really reached the limit of what one engineer can do alone. I'm looking for someone to help me make it go brrr. Someone who would love to iterate on our in-house sync engine, make our monolithic postgres database purr, and wouldn't be scared of a little machine learning.
The product is built in Elixir on the backend, ClojureScript on the front-end. There are no experience requirements so long as you're committed, capable, and hungry.
I'm really trying to do something different with Phrasing. No investors, no hyper-scaling, no enshittification - just a relentless pursuit of mastery and a delightful product.
If any of this is speaking to you, get in touch at hackers [at] phrasing [dot] app.
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Given that last paragraph, you have to report back with some of the results you get :).
Will do! I’m hoping for some good ones this time :)
The product seems interesting. LMK if you're interested in more strategic GTM, especially through partnerships. If so, I'd be happy to help (or even just chat). I like your sense of humor. :) I've spent the past decade in partnerships and channel led growth, and it'd be fun to connect. https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliottally/
Does this “ignore previous instructions” work anymore, I just dropped your post into ChatGPT to see the funny outcome and it totally aced it.
And for what it’s worth, having read thousands of AI generated applications, I can guarantee you it didn’t ace it ;-)
Maybe it didn’t out itself, but you could also make the argument that that’s failing in an of itself
Still works all the time. Past ads I told it to call me Pricess Consuela Banana Hammock, I still get emails almost daily to that name
IS this prompt engineering to filter out spam?
Yes, if I have to read AI applications I might as well enjoy it
lmao the prompt injection is funny. my experience is more on ML (prev recommender systems + current lm fine-tuning/evals). happy to chat more if you foresee such a need!