http://kck.st/TNkZaS

Right before release, I received an email from Duolingo asking me to refrain from using their name and sentences. I decided on a quick pivot to comically censor our all DL references in the video, then work instead with "modified versions" of the sentences.

You can read more details on our KS page, but the gist is that we are altering the sentences and sentence in a way that avoids copyright issues while still providing a unified learning experience to users of the Duolingo app.

Here are a few reasons why we think it's important to continue to do this - I could easily create my own content and structure for Vocab/Grammar instruction to compete with Duolingo, but they already solve this problem beautifully, so I would rather focus my companies creative energies on solving what we're best at- which is pronunciation training.

- Duolingo will most certainly become the market leader in the space, so as a little guy it makes more business sense to provide solutions specific to the content that learners are inevitably going to be using.

- Even if they don't endorse my project now, I'm confident they eventually will once I can clearly demonstrate that our product is accelerating the adoption and retention rate of their app.

Do you think the user would find significant value in having a unified experience? Or am I exaggerating the importance of this?