Posted my project here a few weeks back, got criticised for AI-translated copy and inflated claims. Here's what I changed.

Posting a follow-up because the feedback was useful and I want to close the loop.

The two main complaints were:

1. The English felt translated by an LLM. Things like "Your favorite wise owl, I specialize in programming but you can talk to me about anything" — that's not how a native speaker writes a chatbot greeting. It's a literal translation of Spanish marketing copy.

2. Every section had grandiose claims ("Better than ChatGPT", "#1 AI for programming", "absolutely everything"). Reddit hates that, rightly.

What I changed this week:

- Rewrote ~1,200 lines of EN translation strings by hand. Removed all the "trust the King / spells / battles won / fame doesn't come alone" calques from Spanish.
- Killed the mascot quotes that read like fortune cookies.
- Replaced "Better than ChatGPT" with "A different angle for learning to code" + a factual comparison.
- Removed ~40 decorative emojis from headings.
- Built a public "Honest FAQ" page that openly says: yes the chat is a Gemini wrapper, the value is in the wrapper (lessons + playground + forum + tools), and here's exactly what you get free vs paid.

Two questions for this sub:

a) Has anyone here had luck with the "honest landing page" approach? (Not the "we're tiny and humble" cliché — actually documenting limitations.) I'm curious whether it changes signup quality even if it lowers signup quantity.

b) For multi-lingual sites, what's your workflow for catching translation-by-AI artefacts before they ship? I'm now doing manual review of EN/PT/IT but it doesn't scale to 12 languages.

Tech stack for the curious: React/Vite, Supabase, Gemini via an edge function gateway, react-i18next with lazy-loaded locales.            codemasterip.com