Meet Vokabulo, built for expats and professionals using a foreign language every day. Capture words, phrases, and expressions from podcasts, meetings, and articles with context and translation. Use Scenes to prepare for new situations, Community Sets to see what others recommend, and Study to master them fast - even hands-free. Vokabulo is unlike any language tool you’ve used before. Because language isn’t built from words alone. It’s built on context. Vokabulo. For serious learners.
After 8 months of designing, coding, debugging, and polishing, I’m excited to release Vokabulo into the wild.
I originally built it for myself, but I suspect it may be especially useful for a very specific kind of learner: people who are no longer beginners, yet no longer improving in any satisfying way either. The ones stuck on that long intermediate plateau, with plenty of exposure to the language but still feeling strangely static.
I’m deeply convinced that language learning will never go out of fashion, because language is never just vocabulary or grammar. It is a way into another culture, another rhythm of thought, another way of seeing the world — in a way no Babel fish ever will.
I did consider making Vokabulo free. Unfortunately, the LLM providers powering it have not yet discovered the joys of philanthropy, and I’m not especially optimistic that their future IPO roadshows will change that. So yes, Vokabulo costs money — though less than an espresso a week.
I’d love to hear what you think. This is my first app, so please be gentle.
Congrats on the launch @vokabulo. Will definitely need to give this a try when brushing up on my Dutch.
About Vokabulo on Product Hunt
“A context-based AI vocabulary trainer”
Vokabulo was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 12 upvotes and 5 comments, placing #18 on the daily leaderboard. Meet Vokabulo, built for expats and professionals using a foreign language every day. Capture words, phrases, and expressions from podcasts, meetings, and articles with context and translation. Use Scenes to prepare for new situations, Community Sets to see what others recommend, and Study to master them fast - even hands-free. Vokabulo is unlike any language tool you’ve used before. Because language isn’t built from words alone. It’s built on context. Vokabulo. For serious learners.
Vokabulo was featured in Education (78.4k followers), Languages (14.3k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (466.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 117.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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Vokabulo was hunted by Wolfgang Maennel. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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