I’m making an app to learn multiple languages. This portion of the pipeline is about explaining everything I can determine about a work in a sentence in specifically formatted prose.

Example: https://x.com/barrelltech/status/1963684443006066772?s=46&t=...

dotancohen 2 days ago | parent [-]

This looks great. I invest over an hour a day on Anki, so I'm probably your target audience.

I'd love to try Phrasing, but there is no way that I'm going to give my credit card information if I've never seen how it works. I'm not asking for special treatment. I think the 4 Euro 14 day trial should be free. Not because I don't want to pay, but because I don't want my credit card details shared with every service I ever try.

Yes, I understand that your credit card provider is safe and that is not my worry. It's just that handing over that information is a very large hurdle, and one that users get over only after you built trust with them. If we can never see what we're getting, we have no reason to get over that hurdle and develop that trust.

	▲	barrell a day ago \| parent [-]
		The onboarding flow is already updated with better examples. It’s been my main task this past week — it still needs quite a bit of QA, but it’s been better than the previous flow, so I decided to ship it early. Any bugs will get ironed out in the next day or two. There’s now pretty clear examples of everything My main task this week (besides QAing the new setup flow) is updating examples on the home page and in the blog. It’s all a one person show, so things move a little slowly, but I’m working as fast as I can :) The paid trial gets you credits at cost — Phrasing is bootstrapped by me, and there’s no way I can afford a $4 loss leader for everyone who signs up. I would have to 100x the subscription prices (or more) in order to afford that. There is a way to use the new setup process to “try” the application without spending money, but that’s not an avenue I want to intentionally funnel users through, so you won’t see any copy around it. Feel free to get in touch via the app though if you need more details. I have plans for a free trial eventually, but its blocked by a few key product developments, so it will be a year at least before that’s an option!