Story Time
New Feature Release: Story Time
Scribelate
Learning Languages, product building, and everything behind making Scribelate.
One Hundred Hours Achieved
After 100 hours of using Scribelate to learn Japanese, the biggest win isn't fluency — it's familiarity.
May Progress
New journaling tools, 89+ hours logged, and a milestone moment: understanding real Japanese content for the first time.
April Updates
There have been a lot of little updates on Scribelate in the last month or so. A LOT of little tweaks and bug fixes and there is a new feature that was added too - if you select a podcast or youtube video to work with you'll find a download button just above where all the segments are. If you...
We are live! Let's learn Japanese!
Scribelate is officially live — though I launched it quietly, and intentionally so. It's functional, but it's also evolving fast. I'm learning what it takes to run a real production app: backups, auto-scaling, managing service quotas, and all the unglamorous details that come with it...
Input, Input, Input
There are many different paths to learning a language. Today it seems like the number of tools that you can use to start your journey are almost countless. Regardless of the process you use, you will eventually come across the concept of comprehensible input...
Production Deploys
This was an exciting week for me. It was New Year's Eve, and I felt like working on Scribelate, but I didn’t feel like diving into a lot of code work. I had already done much of the coding to get a fairly functional version running locally. Plus, I’d registered the domain scribelate.com a while ago. So, I thought it would be a great idea to try setting up a production environment...
Welcome to Scribelate!
Hey there, welcome to Scribelate! You might be asking, "What is Scribelate?" Scribelate is a platform for learning languages—not in a DuoLingo kind of way, but in a real-world, real-work kind of way...