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Langolab.com

4 points by bezeichnung 17y ago

We're looking for a entrepreneurial hacker/maniac to join us as a cofounder at langolab.com. We've been inducted into a somewhat prominent seed capital program for the summer, so we have a nurturing environment awaiting us and a pretty strong vote of confidence in the potential success of the project. If you are extremely smart and creative, please come join us. A lot of the code is in Java and some is in Actionscript and Erlang. We use Google Web Toolkit pretty heavily. Good programmers can build amazing things using any Turing-complete language, so please check your Java hatred at the door (or, rather, the "add comment" button in your browser) please. You should be located in Boston. Adam adam at langolab dot com

aristus 17y ago
Nice idea... I learned a lot of Spanish early on from telenovelas. You should talk up the startup instead of defending the tech.
bezeichnung 17y ago
It has been suggested that I talk up the startup. Very well then! Langolab.com is a site where people can watch videos in a foreign language. The videos have captions and all kinds of tools surrounding the captions, like one-click dictionary lookup, flash cards, and notes. Our goal is for people to be able to watch compelling, addictive video content in a foreign language and immediately get exactly the help they want whenever they hear something they don't understand. We think it's an extremely cool idea, and we think we have an edge because of our crazy ambition and technical expertise. On the content side, our dream is to make the site truly magical by licensing really cool video content, like Family Guy in Spanish. On the functionality side, we want to make the site truly magical by giving users exactly the help they need when they're struggling with a video caption. We would be especially helped by anyone with a background or strong interest in natural language processing. We talk to people all over the world who learn English by watching subtitled movies. Over a billion people worldwide are learning English right now. On a web page, we can give all kinds of help that can't be provided in movie subtitles. This is a really awesome idea. Please call!

Langolab.com

4 points by bezeichnung 17y ago

aristus 17y ago

Nice idea... I learned a lot of Spanish early on from telenovelas. You should talk up the startup instead of defending the tech.

bezeichnung 17y ago

It has been suggested that I talk up the startup. Very well then! Langolab.com is a site where people can watch videos in a foreign language. The videos have captions and all kinds of tools surrounding the captions, like one-click dictionary lookup, flash cards, and notes. Our goal is for people to be able to watch compelling, addictive video content in a foreign language and immediately get exactly the help they want whenever they hear something they don't understand. We think it's an extremely cool idea, and we think we have an edge because of our crazy ambition and technical expertise. On the content side, our dream is to make the site truly magical by licensing really cool video content, like Family Guy in Spanish. On the functionality side, we want to make the site truly magical by giving users exactly the help they need when they're struggling with a video caption. We would be especially helped by anyone with a background or strong interest in natural language processing. We talk to people all over the world who learn English by watching subtitled movies. Over a billion people worldwide are learning English right now. On a web page, we can give all kinds of help that can't be provided in movie subtitles. This is a really awesome idea. Please call!