Show HN: Ello (YC W20) – AI-reading tutor for kids that works with real books
Sounds like a great app, was hoping for something like this &amp; immediately signed up<p>Initial onboarding flow comments<p>- nice product&#x2F;market fit - I almost missed the promo code but wouldn&#x27;t have been a barrier to paying<p>- imagine that at 25&#x2F;mo (+ another 25 for books) it&#x27;s also kind of expensive for families who are impoverished and might need it more (believe lockdowns were way way worse for their kids).<p>- felt like there weren&#x27;t enough &quot;none of your business&quot; options. Like I have 2 kids of different age but similar reading levels.  Even though they go to actual schools, I just selected that they were homeschooled to preserve some privacy<p>- wasn&#x27;t clear how to handle siblings. I went with setting the options based on the one who needs it more and hopefully it doesn&#x27;t get confused by both a girl&#x27;s voice and a boy&#x27;s voice (edit: after signing up I see the add-a-child option in the online profile)<p>- this should have been more clear: &quot;Can Ello use audio recordings to provide additional features and to improve the service?&quot;.  I selected <i>no</i>, even though I would have wanted my kid&#x27;s voices saved to make the experience better for them. I just felt a single checkbox was insufficient here because there should be multiple levels of privacy+information implied (and where kids are involved that&#x27;s way more sensitive an issue)<p>- annoying that after signing up there was no preview book available in the app, just a sad &amp; lonely &quot;hurry up and wait&quot; page.  would be great if there were immediately some books that they could read in case they already had them home or in the library (go with something popular here).  otherwise it feels like a growth hack is being used on my kids<p>But looking forward.  My kids really enjoy math+chess apps (esp the dragonbox family) and we usually work IRL to reinforce what the apps teach (also Epic and some others). Happy to share more thoughts, esp once they get to playing with it.