First: I'm a huge fan of DuoLingo (DL). Thank you for this awesome project.
What is the long term goal (future) of DL? How is DL going to try to make money? With just the translations? Are you waiting to be aquired?
Given that DL is free and only wants you to translate web pages: Why is DL not open sourced? Why is there no good API for it?
When can we see Chinese for DL?
Given you're the CEO of DL, how much time do you still have to do "pure" academic research?
Given that at universities only really care about how many papers (and their significance) you publish, do you have some kind of special arrangement with Carnegie Mellon? You don't seem to publish too much, many professors would get into trouble.
What is future plans? Go full time for DL or become a Full Professor? Any new revolutionary projects in you head?
To follow up:
I'd really love to see this become open source. I think people are quite eager to help and contribute to a project like this. I certainly would. You can also see what happens when you provide an extensive API... You guys wouldn't even have to spend time on an Android app. People would just come up with a handful of them and you could focus on other things.
Also: Can't wait for the tablet edition of the Android app. If you need a beta tester, send me the apk. :)
MyNameIsFuchs73 karma
First: I'm a huge fan of DuoLingo (DL). Thank you for this awesome project.
To follow up:
I'd really love to see this become open source. I think people are quite eager to help and contribute to a project like this. I certainly would. You can also see what happens when you provide an extensive API... You guys wouldn't even have to spend time on an Android app. People would just come up with a handful of them and you could focus on other things.
Also: Can't wait for the tablet edition of the Android app. If you need a beta tester, send me the apk. :)
Cheers
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