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Last month I shipped a free feature inside my vocabulary app, Words on Repeat , and I want honest feedback on whether the core idea holds up. The problem: phrasebooks give you 400 phrases and you learn none of them. What you actually need before a trip is about 50, and you need the habit behind each one. In Italy the bill never comes until you ask for it. In Poland, saying thank you while handing over cash means keep the change. In Switzerland, a bare "Merci" can mean no. Nobody puts that next to the phrase. So Trip Kit is one deck per destination: 50 phrases split into 5 days of 10, each with an English-style respelling for pronunciation and a one-line tip about the mistake it prevents. Day 1 opens in the browser with no account. There is a printable three-page sheet, a trip-date countdown that spaces the five days before you fly, and a short "tourist traps" post per language written from the same notes. Eleven languages so far (Italian, Spanish, French, German, Swiss German, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Chinese), plus versions for Spanish, German, French and Polish speakers. Things I learned building it: Native review mattered more than the writing. Two independent rounds by native speakers changed about 380 of 660 cards. Examples: Kraków tram tickets are never stamped, Rio buses stopped taking cash but the rest of Brazil did not, the "cover charge" in a Korean bar is the basic side dish you never ordered. Respellings beat IPA. Nobody at a bar counter reads IPA. "GROOT-see" works. Search indexed the pages in two days but sends almost nobody yet (500 impressions, 3 clicks in the first week), and the travel season is ending, so the honest status is: the loop works, the audience is not there yet. One stranger has finished all five days and is still studying two weeks later, which is the only number I really care about. Here it is if you want to poke at it: https://wordsonrepeat.com/travel-phrases (the Italian kit is the most complete example, everything on that page is free and works without an account). Questions I would love answers to: Would you actually do 10 phrases a day for 5 days before a trip, or is the printable sheet the only part anyone wants? Is a trip-date countdown a reason to sign up, or friction? Which destination would you add first? I am holding off on Greek and Turkish until spring because summer demand is gone. Stack, if useful: Node and Express, SQLite, vanilla JS, one small server (hosted on AWS). Built solo. Link is in the comments.   submitted by   /u/Low-Yesterday-8237 [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/13 16:52:35