Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I’m a solo developer, and I’ve spent the last three months building VocReel. It started with a problem I kept running into while learning English: I could read a sentence and understand every word, but when I heard the exact same sentence spoken naturally, sometimes I couldn’t understand it at all. That gap between “I know these words” and “I can actually hear these words” is what I wanted to work on. So I built VocReel around a simple loop: listen to a sentence without subtitles, try to understand it, reveal the text, then listen again. Instead of sitting through a full lesson, you can keep moving through short pieces of English one at a time. What started as a small experiment grew quite a bit. I ended up building the web app, iOS and Android apps, a backend, a content system, listening and speaking practice, review flows, and a large library of sentence-level content. Now I’m at the part that’s much harder than building it: finding out whether people actually want to use it. 😅 So I’m launching VocReel here pretty early. I’d especially love to hear from people who have experienced the same thing — you can read English, but listening feels like a completely different language. I’d love your feedback on one thing in particular: After trying VocReel, would you actually want to come back tomorrow and practice again? Thanks for checking it out!

VocReel

Train your ears with real English, one sentence at a time.

Train your ears with real English, one sentence at a time.