Chris Vasselli

Happy macOS Sequoia launch! 🌲 Subtitle Me is a new live-translation app that utilizes the Translation framework introduced in macOS Sequoia to provide lightning-fast, private, completely on-device translation as you speak. I run a Swift developer meetup in Osaka, Japan, and I developed Subtitle Me to help me build a bilingual community among iOS and macOS developers here. I've been using it at...

I've been working on this update for over 8 months, and I'm super proud of how it turned out. Most Japanese dictionaries present kanji as a compilation of individual elements with their own specific meanings. This is actually a common misunderstanding of how kanji work. The truth is, each element can contribute a different thing to the kanji — a specific meaning, a broad category, or a...

Hey Product Hunt, creator of Nihongo here! I spent a long time studying Japanese vocabulary using Anki, Flashcards Deluxe, etc., but I found that studying using premade word lists never worked that well for me. Nihongo is built around studying the words you're encountering naturally through your own hobbies and interests. Flashcard packs are automatically generated from the words that you look...

I haven’t had a chance to install the SDK and try it out yet, but I’m totally into the idea of this. A simple, focused analytics tool for engaging with the power users of your app. Great idea. This is an aspect of my userbase I don’t understand well, even though I already use Flurry and Fabric’s Answers. I don’t ask for names/emails of users (and don’t want to), but I could also imagine using...