From Tamil to German
When your college friend's teaching workflow hell becomes your weekend project.
The Message That Started It
Ramya, teaching German in India, described her reality: "Students with no prior foreign language experience struggle with reading comprehension. Teachers spend hours selecting texts, designing pre-reading tasks, and creating exercises."
Her students aren't elite, culturally-curious learners from the 70s-90s. They're aspiring nurses and vocational trainees seeking opportunities in Germany—first-generation graduates juggling jobs and studies, learning from necessity.
The Real Problem
Generic AI prompts produce garbage: circular definitions, random distractors, exercises that don't respect German linguistic features. Separable verbs like vorschreiben splitting to schreibt...vor confused the AI. Compounds like einschränken broke text selection.
The solution wasn't better models—it was encoding pedagogical expertise into prompts. 200+ lines built from research, requirements, and feedback.
The Collaboration
Built without knowing German. Every feature shaped by WhatsApp messages: bug reported → fixed → pushed → tested. "Exciteddd :)" when features ship.
The joy is in this collaboration. Building at the speed of trust, with homework done first. For teachers who save hours of manual tracking and can focus on what matters: helping first-generation learners succeed.