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397 points Anon84 | 3 comments | 04 Sep 25 11:04 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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barrell ◴[04 Sep 25 11:36 UTC] No.45126116[source]▶
I recently upgraded a large portion of my pipeline from gpt-4.1-mini to gpt-5-mini. The performance was horrible - after some research I decided to move everything to mistral-medium-0525.

Same price, but dramatically better results, way more reliable, and 10x faster. The only downside is when it does fail, it seems to fail much harder. Where gpt-5-mini would disregard the formatting in the prompt 70% of the time, mistral-medium follows it 99% of the time, but the other 1% of the time inserts random characters (for whatever reason, normally backticks... which then causes it's own formatting issues).

Still, very happy with Mistral so far!

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brcmthrowaway ◴[04 Sep 25 16:27 UTC] No.45129028[source]▶
What are you actually making
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1. barrell ◴[04 Sep 25 19:24 UTC] No.45131227[source]▶
https://phrasing.app

I’m making an app to learn multiple languages. This portion of the pipeline is about explaining everything I can determine about a work in a sentence in specifically formatted prose.

Example: https://x.com/barrelltech/status/1963684443006066772?s=46&t=...

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2. dotancohen ◴[07 Sep 25 14:23 UTC] No.45158385[source]▶
This looks great. I invest over an hour a day on Anki, so I'm probably your target audience.

I'd love to try Phrasing, but there is no way that I'm going to give my credit card information if I've never seen how it works. I'm not asking for special treatment. I think the 4 Euro 14 day trial should be free. Not because I don't want to pay, but because I don't want my credit card details shared with every service I ever try.

Yes, I understand that your credit card provider is safe and that is not my worry. It's just that handing over that information is a very large hurdle, and one that users get over only after you built trust with them. If we can never see what we're getting, we have no reason to get over that hurdle and develop that trust.

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3. barrell ◴[08 Sep 25 19:28 UTC] No.45172772[source]▶
The onboarding flow is already updated with better examples. It’s been my main task this past week — it still needs quite a bit of QA, but it’s been better than the previous flow, so I decided to ship it early. Any bugs will get ironed out in the next day or two. There’s now pretty clear examples of everything

My main task this week (besides QAing the new setup flow) is updating examples on the home page and in the blog. It’s all a one person show, so things move a little slowly, but I’m working as fast as I can :)

The paid trial gets you credits at cost — Phrasing is bootstrapped by me, and there’s no way I can afford a $4 loss leader for everyone who signs up. I would have to 100x the subscription prices (or more) in order to afford that.

There is a way to use the new setup process to “try” the application without spending money, but that’s not an avenue I want to intentionally funnel users through, so you won’t see any copy around it. Feel free to get in touch via the app though if you need more details.

I have plans for a free trial eventually, but its blocked by a few key product developments, so it will be a year at least before that’s an option!