I've figured out how to implement the automatic detection of document type by scan - efficiently and quickly.
Without spending $150K and 4-6 months at least.
It will be implemented soon.

I love beautiful solutions!
#buildinpublic

- Are you doing translations? Give it up, tomorrow everyone will be translating with #ChatGPT. Nobody needs your @GetXDocs.

I hear that a lot from the Israelis.

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Unexpectedly, turning off the payments on the @GetXDocs site was more complicated than turning them on initially 😂🤦🏻‍♂️

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🚢 How do you onboard new users?

What works best?

#startups #buildinpublic

How to become a feature-hacker 🚀⚙

1. Be curious and ask questions about what users do
2. Run experiments all the time
3. Make incremental changes
4. Test and iterate
5. Be ready to fail, but desperately look to win

#startups #buildinpublic

Last week, we began an active #CustDev for @GetXDocs.

The aim is to gather experience and opinions from professional translators from 10 target countries: Israel, USA, Canada, Spain, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, Poland, and UAE.

A lot of work to do!

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Short notes on @GetXDocs results of the last week.

⚙ Implemented some more basic marketing mechanics.
🆙Fixed one of the core algorithms to reduce the number of server requests by 10 times.
⏩Reduced the time of translation delivery from 30 to 10 min.

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📃GetXDocs brief report

The most important tasks of the last week: we integrated GetXDocs with #Memsource based glossaries and #Azure based transliteration!

Also, last week, we created our logo (I wrote about it) and made Twitter account @GetXDocs !

#buildinpublic #startup

Do you know that #Google translates digits differently in some languages?

In GetXDocs, we use a combination of human #translation, curated translation memory, and Google.

Recently, we found a system error Google does while translating digits. 🧵↘

#startup #buildinpublic

By now, we're building our system 100% NoCode.
So, I decided to build also #NoCode marketing - as much as possible.

🔮If you know best practices in automation/nocode for marketing please share here.

This'll be useful for every startup founder and marketer

#buildinpublic

August turned out to be +15% profitable to our average level!

Why we're celebrating this?

Because for our #startup, this gives 3️⃣ months more to the runway without external #investments!

Keep running to our goals 🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♀️💪🏻

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This week, we faced an unexpected problem

Apparently, there's no API for #transliteration with acceptable quality🤦🏻‍♂️
Again, transliteration is happened to be more complicated than #GoogleTranslate

So, looking for alternative solutions🔎

#buildinpublic #startup diary

Even more important is that you can #buildinpublic differently.
You can show ideas, insights, and all the inner stuff.

OR

You can tell your story:
* How do you search the way?
* How do you gather the team?
* What do you feel during 📈 and 📉?

People ❤ #storytelling

An often question: don't you afraid that someone steals your idea while you #buildinpublic?

The obvious answer is that idea is 1% and execution ⚒+ team 👨🏻‍🤝‍👨🏾‍+ knowledge 📚+ etc. is 99%

However, even more important that...

Everybody loves easy and beautiful solutions🦋

The #startup I'm working on is a #translation service. There are plenty of different translation services worldwide.
But I think we're the first who use #GoogleMaps 🌍 for the translations :)

Works perfectly ⚒️

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Today, I planned to give access to my #startup to the first 🔟 clients. But couldn't due to the one significant bug 🪲. Some parts of the system work, but a specific part which is necessary for those clients - doesn't.
↘️↘️

#buildinpublic To maintain the pace while developers are dealing with the bug, I decided to invite 10-30 other clients for whom this feature is not important.
Tomorrow, I run ads which I was planning to do in October.
So, I'll test another hypothesis quickly
↘️↘️

@growth_tracking I'm 100% agree, in 3 need to go deeper. I'm just not sure I can do this right next week. But I will ))

Regarding focus, I have what to answer. I'm going to post a #buildinpublic thread about it soon, why I think this is a way to go

Today discussed the status of the development with the programmers.
There's one feature, important for #MVP, that will be released by Monday - and I'll invite the first beta-testers!

#buildinpublic #startup

What is my #startup about? - Translations :)
Yes, again! :)

This is an online service which translates standard documents in a perfect form.
In minutes!

I'm in this business for 16+ yrs.
Such translations are pain for customers and translators.

#buildinpublic #getxdocs