uSpeech - the story of one startup

    Hello! I would like to share with you thoughts about my startup.

    To begin with, what is it all about: The

    service solves the problem of developing vocabulary and cleaning the Russian language among our users.

    After authorization in the application (now only available on VKontakte), you will receive the ratings of your words, and after that you will receive tasks. Each task contains 2 points:

    1. A word that should not be used at all
    2. A word that should be tried to be replaced with synonyms

    After sending a certain number of messages, your task is checked and your rating changes depending on the success of the execution.

    How everything developed:

    Initially, for the sake of fun, there was a WeSpeakIt service that gave users only statistics of words that they and their interlocutors used most often. People used it, it was fun (without any investment in the project, a couple of weeks gathered about a hundred people who are interested).

    Every second (if not the first) question arose:

    “Well, I see my frequent words. I don’t like the fact that I use them so often. Is there anything you can do about it? ”

    It was after such questions that the idea for the uSpeech project began to emerge. After searching on the Internet for something like “ways of developing speech, expanding vocabulary, etc.”, we found only some general advice that was not tied to a specific person. Read books and all in this spirit advise hundreds of articles. But there is no service.


    In the three months of the project’s existence, a server was written, a test application for android, the first customers were attracted and even ... the first pre-subscription was sold (when a person could not even use absolutely nothing. The

    application now looks like this:





    Designers were not hired, everything was invented on the knee, quickly, " So that was. "

    Development

    A lot of benefit was obtained through the IIDF pre-accelerator and GoTech forum.
    Now the main tasks are to get investments and attract attention.

    It would be very interesting to hear your opinion in the comments on about everything that comes to your mind,

    more about all stages of the service’s development, about the team and everything in our blog on the VK page

    Service website: uSpeech

    If you want to support the project financially, help us on the Planet site: uSpeech is the planet (or at least share the link in social networks)

    Subscribe, read, and most importantly, comment. Thanks everyone!

    PS If someone wants to help with programming, marketing, linguistics - write, we are always happy for any help!

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