"This is a great tool, thanks." Nell, EU.
"its a great idea!!!! its perfect for me because of english - tagalog - one of the very rare sources!" Dirk, Germany.
"I am enjoying your site very much - keep up the good work!" Elen, USA.
"tankyo" (sic) Faras, Saudi.
"cool.it is cool. love your stuff, feel like i’m doing something useful at work now your site’s on my desktop!" Rob, Amsterdam.
"I am American from the US and speak Chinese, Spanish, Italian, and can read Hebrew. Your program is the greatest idea since Rosetta Stone! I am interested in learning other languages…Your site and the idea of 10 words a day is brilliant!" Jay, USA
"This is a GREAT idea! Love it… Keep up the good work!" Rob, USA
"excellent idea, fun, practical and very effective" Rob, UK
"I need this" Claudio, Brazil.

The Blog

Back to zero

May 16th, 2008

I love numerical coincidence. When we switched over from the first version of the widget, to the second, the user tally stood at 11111. We have now pressed the reset button - the table on the home page shows registrations only on the new widget, not the first prototype.

So far, the time investment into the learnit widget has been 2100+ hours. We have had visitors from 167 countries (large and telling gaps from Central Africa and various totalitarian regimes). One in ten visitors register on the widget (a figure with room for improvement). The prototype has been viewed over half a million times, by 112k unique visitors, who spent on average 8 minutes on the site.

We have have not officially launched the new version of the widget. We still need to add the write & share sections, but it has bedded in pretty well. We’ve not had many reported bugs. On average, each visitor has come to the site six times in the last 3 weeks, and stayed for 8 minutes. We like sticky.