robert_mygengo

Should be OK now. 600 concurrent users is big for us.

Sure, I think it's a valid point. No beef there.

Seems like SendGrid caused the vast majority of comments so far. I feel like Xero, Apigee and RightSignature should get more love. What do you guys think?

>>> "You don't magically get higher deliverability only because your mail is passing through them. They don't have mythical "whitelist" slots at the ESPs. They're not even on the radar of the ESPs."

That's absolutely right, you don't. But email deliverability turned from a massive mystery and headache for us, into a sure-fire deal, the day after we implemented SendGrid. We develop translation/localization related apps, not email apps. So for us that's cool :)

LOL. I guess we make shovels too though. So no biggie.

I don't think you're wrong — I just think that for $80, we get a lot of peace of mind once we were sending thousands of mails per day. Particularly because we're sending job notifications to translators too — so if they don't see them, they might not think to check spam.

Throw up as in (puke)?

Makes me sound like a hard-ass manager... :(

This is pretty cool...

Basically the bundle works with your yaml file and allows you to order translation, either by machine, or using myGengo's human translation service.

The guy who created the bundle has pretty much thought of everything. We're pretty excited by it as it's a great use of our API.

[disclosure — I'm one of the founders of myGengo]

Thanks for the comments!

The context problem is a continual issue with translation - but most of the time our customers handle it by adding comments to jobs.

We do allow you to attach comments to the job call - so you can add context there and also links to related material if required. We're considering adding an option to attach files too.

You can also group jobs together if you want them to be handled by a single translator - this obviously takes longer but makes sense for all-in-one projects.

Our focus is on Asian<>European language pairs. The next to appear will be Korean<>English, Korean<>Japanese, Chinese<>Japanese. But other European languages like Portuguese are coming soon too. A full roadmap is in the works.

We're considering options, but actually optimizing the interface for translators seems to be less controversial (some translators HATE machine pre-translation) and potentially better for performance and quality. But not ruling it out.

(Disclosure: I'm CEO of myGengo)

I'd say the distinction we have over other services is that we offer a completely transparent solution - all our translators are tested and rated to ensure they meet a consistent quality standard, so you don't have to pick and choose them as you do with others.

So you can literally treat us like a machine, which hasn't been true when I've tested those other services (I got bombarded with emails from translators asking me to pick them for my jobs, which really annoyed me).

We think that's pretty compelling for developers, and makes us a much more scalable solution :)

Small but we work damn hard :) And fewer distractions unless you count gyoza.

We were joking that we were going to try to pitch a fax-based startup to VCs this year - just to see what their reaction would be.

Actually this is kind of cool though :)

I think if you keep it simple and convenient, it's nice.

Hmm. I have a feeling that any sysadmin out there would disagree that spam is dead.

Yeah - seems like a great resource for spammers :(

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