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by atifjaved 9y ago
Thanks! Yes it's at the bottom of our website where you can add your email to our newsletter: https://tarjim.ly
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by atifjaved 9y ago
Thanks! Curious, what's the specific concern with Facebook Messenger? The two I've gotten most is either "I'm not on FB" or "I don't trust FB". Definitely looking into WhatsApp, Telegram, and especi
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by atifjaved 9y ago
Wow that's the exact persona we were envisioning when we created it! :) Aziz and I felt the same way, and we felt bad about buying flights to basically go translate (because we're engineers there wasn't much else we could off
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by atifjaved 9y ago
Thank you! It's crazy to look back and see where we were 1 year ago haha
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by atifjaved 9y ago
Thanks! We're actually in touch with the WhatsApp team and they like what we're doing - we're working with them to be able to access their API, but it is still in the early stages. We're envisioning interesting scenari
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by atifjaved 9y ago
I'm actually having some friends go through making corrections in the next few days since not everyone on our team speaks every language - Burmese is rough! We built a message editor which allows us to immediately edit any string in ou
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by atifjaved 9y ago
The conversations are actually anonymous between translator and refugee/aid worker. All we provide is their first name (so it's clear they're talking to a person instead of the application). So there is no way for the two p
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Launch HN: Tarjimly (YC W18 Nonprofit) – Realtime Translators for Refugees
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