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Wakatta turns real Japanese podcasts into tappable lessons: tap any word for its meaning + furigana, mark what you miss, review it later with spaced repetition, and an AI sensei explains the rest. Free, no account. iOS & Android.
Hi Product Hunt 👋 I'm Mariano. I built Wakatta because the hardest jump in learning Japanese was going from textbook Japanese to *real* Japanese — the stuff people actually say on podcasts.
So Wakatta takes real Japanese podcasts and YouTube and makes every word tappable: tap for the meaning + furigana, mark what you didn't catch, and it comes back later in spaced-repetition review. When a whole sentence won't click, an AI sensei breaks it down. It's all built around listening — the skill that's hardest to train.
It's free and you can start without an account. I'm still learning Japanese myself, so I'm basically building the app I wanted. Would love your feedback — especially from fellow learners: what would make it click for you? 🎧
Tapping words mid-listen for furigana and meanings without losing the flow is genuinely useful, and the spaced repetition catching what I actually missed makes it feel like real study instead of busywork.
Saving custom vocabulary decks would be huge, like being able to tag words by show or topic so I can review only the slang from a specific podcast later instead of one giant mixed list.
The tap-any-word-to-translate thing is honestly so smooth, feels way less clunky than copying into a dictionary every five seconds. Surprised how well the furigana works on tricky kanji.
About Wakatta on Product Hunt
“Learn Japanese from the podcasts you already love”
Wakatta was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 8 upvotes and 6 comments, placing #158 on the daily leaderboard. Wakatta turns real Japanese podcasts into tappable lessons: tap any word for its meaning + furigana, mark what you miss, review it later with spaced repetition, and an AI sensei explains the rest. Free, no account. iOS & Android.
Wakatta was featured in Android (57.4k followers), Productivity (656.7k followers), Education (78.9k followers) and Languages (14.4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 227.6k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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Wakatta was hunted by Mariano Matayoshi. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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