Show HN: Learn foreign languages by doomscrooling Twitter – Chrome extension

Hi HN,

I created this Chrome extension, doomlingo.com, to help people learn foreign languages while browsing their Twitter/X feed. The idea is simple: the extension converts all of your Twitter content from English to one of the five currently supported languages: Italian/French/Spanish/ German/Portuguese and you have to understand the message by translating the text. The extension provides a simple, fast UI to help with that.

So, if you want to get your daily dose of dopamine, you'll have to work for it. My hope is that my craving for the daily Twitter feed will be strong enough to motivate me to go through the struggle of translating and understanding foreign text. But that remains to be seen and may vary from person to person. The opposite might also happen: you may not want to use Twitter anymore because it's simply too much work.

You can download the extension from the Chrome Web Store. Unfortunately, you’ll have to register to try it because I’m using an LLM to translate the Twitter feed in real-time, and I need to rate-limit users to avoid DDoSing my API. As a free user, you get a certain number of translation tokens per month. Beyond that, it’s a paid membership, since the LLM translation service I use is not free.

Would like to hear your thoughts and feedback on this, thanks all.