Unbabel
Languages and libraries
translation service
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
4 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 1 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score +0.21.
Idea: 2 for, 0 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Simple and clear concept
From 3 comments
I love it, so simple! Please add more languages.
klausjensen on HNBrilliant!
anilmujagic on HNCool stuff. I think it's something that'd be useful to many people.
personlurking on HN
Low pricing
From 1 comment
This is great, I'm particularly excited about the pricing. I was also wondering about the Crowd Translation Community. I do a lot of research that lands me in foreign texts.…
emhart on HN
Objections
Price seems too low for human translation
From 1 comment
How is this $0.01 per word? That seems too good to be true. The website implies says it's human translators, but translation usually costs an order of magnitude more than that.…
danpalmer on HN
Unclear whether translation tasks are paid for translators
From 1 comment
I really like the way unbabel works and got quite curious since it's a portuguese startup. But the way it works for translators is a bit weird. When you request a task there's no…
skimmas on HN
Account confirmation and balance display were confusing
From 2 comments
This is great, I'm particularly excited about the pricing. I was also wondering about the Crowd Translation Community. I do a lot of research that lands me in foreign texts.…
emhart on HNAwesome, thanks, Vasco, I look forward to trying it out this weekend when I have some time to go through old sources. Also - just on the UX part, when I was able to confirm the…
emhart on HN
Requests
More languages, including Dutch and German
From 2 comments
I love it, so simple! Please add more languages.
klausjensen on HNLooks great. Right now I need Dutch and German translation so I hope they are coming soon.
benferris on HN
Blog translation integration
From 1 comment
This is really a good idea! It helps both end-users and translators. It helps building an open-market for an activity which is very important to global communication. I wonder if…
luis_sarmento on HN
Questions
How translators are sourced and whether text is proofread
From 2 comments
Cool! That's really simple. How do you source translators? Does someone proof-read the translation? Basically, I'd like to know more about "Unbabel Crowd Translation community"…
CookWithMe on HNMy guess would be that a translator receives the original text along with Google Translate's (or some other service's) version, and then proofreads it using the original as a…
adambard on HN
How quality compares to Gengo
From 1 comment
How would you say your service compares to Gengo.com? It seems you're a lot cheaper. Does that mean we could expect lower quality? What sort of QA do you have in place?
loomio on HN
Alternatives named
Gengo
From 1 comment
How would you say your service compares to Gengo.com? It seems you're a lot cheaper. Does that mean we could expect lower quality? What sort of QA do you have in place?
loomio on HN
Duolingo
From 1 comment
How is this $0.01 per word? That seems too good to be true. The website implies says it's human translators, but translation usually costs an order of magnitude more than that.…
danpalmer on HN