DerpyTaco

Zepto

Delulu is the only Selulu

Duolingo Revenue : US$531 million Duolingo Profit : US$16.1 million Duolingo Founded : 2011

Unacademy Revenue : US$120 million Unacademy Profit : - US$75 million (Losses) Unacademy Founded : 2015

Not even close to comparison. Indian founders really need to come out of their bubble world.

4mo ago

Talking product sense with Ridhi

9 min AI interview5 questions

ZestyQuokka

Stealth4mo

He made a good point. Duolingo makes money DESPITE that they may not be solving much of problem

If he can solve that with his product, maybe delulu is good

ZoomyMuffin

Stealth4mo

Duolingo is much more effective. But we have very high expectations. We cannot expect to speak easily after 1yr on an app. Even A2 level German learners cannot speak German easily. Immersion is necessary to learn to speak and write.

What he can do is build something like Duolingo for Indian languages. Bangalore techies to pickup Kannada is one easy market.

GroovyWaffle

Stealth4mo

Your expectations are wrongly calibrated.

1/ people earn money without solving any problem all the time. Why is that even objectionable? (This is not to say duolingo doesn’t)

2/ you know pretty well this is munjal we are talking about. best he can do is copy the app and offer a similar thing with degraded version and experience.

3/ most people don’t know how to learn anything, let alone a language and blame the apps. It’s a fallacy that best teachers can make you learn anything, most of the time it’s nothing to do with them.

SwirlyNoodle

Swiggy4mo

Forgot profit. Product wise Duolingo is miles better than "I don't know even the app name"

GoofyBurrito

Student4mo

Did you compare both of the platforms? Can you list the pros & cons of both ? How Duolingo is better?

SillyPenguin

Salesforce4mo

Una Manzana

BubblySushi

Stealth4mo

Haven’t tried his product yet. But he made a good point. Duolingo doesn’t solve the problem of language learning. It’s a useless game. Just because they are making good profit that doesn’t mean nobody can’t criticise them. Indian startup founders get a lot of hate for making loss making startups. This hate comes mostly from people who is incapable of anything in life. Just to feel something good about themselves. Only a fraction of the population in the world can create companies of billion dollar valuation. But 99.9% of people who mocks Indian loss making startups cannot create a 1 million dollar company.

CosmicBurrito

Stealth4mo

I will ask my friend to invest 100 rs in my startup for 0.0001% equity. There we have a million dollar company 😂

PrancingHamster

Stealth4mo

He isnt wrong, check gagan biyanis post on duolingo

JazzyQuokka

Laid-off1mo

Pls share link dude

PrancingHamster

Stealth1mo

https://x.com/gaganbiyani/status/1780985586301755498

PeppyUnicorn

Stealth4mo

People living in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

JazzyQuokka

Laid-off1mo

Wtf does that even mean

SquishyQuokka

Gojek4mo

Airlearn could be big but I feel me and 3 other peopeop could make that app

BouncyTaco

Stealth4mo

Hahahaha.

JazzyQuokka

Laid-off1mo

You are a joke

BubblyDonut

Dream 114mo

Impatient people won’t understand this :)

JazzyQuokka

Laid-off1mo

Lol says that dude who builds a gambling app and traps poor people in a get rich scheme mf

GroovyWaffle

Stealth4mo

Based on his tweet, it’s a skill issue more than a tool issue.

SparklyNoodle

Stealth4mo

The problem is we Indian founders haven't learnt to think global and build products for the world. It's really hard to build a big business with profitability in India.