Duolingo: The Antithesis to the Bazaar

Deep dive on Duolingo

New post ✨: Duolingo, talking about their product, growth and everything else

TL;DR in this twitter thread 🐦:

Nalin Bhardwaj @nibnalin

New ✨! Deep dive on Duolingo with insights on their product, strategy and growth: nibnalin.me/dust-nib/duoli…… Here's a TL;DR of my favourite observations 🧵👇

I’ve been working on this essay for the past few weeks, and I think it’ll have something interesting for everyone! I talk about everything that’s publicly known about Doulingo (the product and the company) and theorise about their growth, retention, competition etc. etc. Hit me up if you have any feedback!

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Random assortment of things I’ve enjoyed, worked on, or generally been into recently:

The Art of Guweiz: Great art, nice coffee table book and a cool note on Guweiz’s journey in art.

WordLines: I worked on a mobile zero-knowledge game on Ethereum recently, self recommending.

Flying: I’ve been working on a private pilot license recently, and I recommend it quite highly: more affordable and more fun than I expected but also harder than I expected.

Here’s a picture from a recent flight to entice you:

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UCSD: I recently decided to go back to university (after working at a startup for > 1 year) and am back at UC San Diego now. I have a lot of thoughts on this that I might share widely on a later date, but for now, this is just book-keeping on my personal self here.

That’s all for now, hit me up if you’re interested in any of these :)