jessouyang

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by jessouyang 8mo ago
Hey all-- I'm one of Ditto's cofounders. Grateful for all of the support when we Launched on HN a bit ago. Happy to answer any questions if anyone has any!
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Ditto (YC W20) Is Hiring Full-Stack Engineers(dittowords.com)
1 points by jessouyang 5y ago
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by jessouyang 5y ago
Just wanted to follow up on this and mention that we've just rolled out our localization features. Ditto now handles variants (including languages, user segment-based text, and more). I wrote about it here: https://www.ditto
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by jessouyang 5y ago
Although we do think we play an integral part in the product development process, if teams switched off Ditto, they wouldn't be any worse-off than they were before. The text would still exist in their mockups, and their apps can contin
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by jessouyang 5y ago
Thanks so much for the support -- we feel really lucky and excited to have been able to grow Ditto over the last year. :)
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by jessouyang 5y ago
Right now, teams in Ditto use it as a translation/l10n solution if they already localize their mockups. However, we are hoping to support this more fully in the very near feature (likely this upcoming week!) with the ability to create
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by jessouyang 5y ago
That means a lot, especially because we handle all of the design (including the landing page) in-house. Thanks for the support!
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by jessouyang 5y ago
We're actually launching a feature called Variants to tackle this very use case (and translations) in our app in the next few days! It's definitely been highly requested by teams using Ditto and will hopefully allow them to create
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by jessouyang 5y ago
Hey Tejas, great to see you here on HN! Thanks for the support both then and now :)
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by jessouyang 5y ago
Thank you for your support!
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by jessouyang 5y ago
Definitely been there as an engineer as well. The amount of overhead and engineering time it takes to make punctuation changes, fix spelling errors, and even simple iterations to copy in-app only increases as a product's surface area i
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by jessouyang 5y ago
Totally -- even beyond just spacing/fitting in content into the designs, the text in-app strongly informs what the user knows and understands, which is critical to the design itself. Designing with lorem ipsum and other placeholder tex
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by jessouyang 5y ago
Wow, great catch with the Safari font issue; we've just fixed it. Thanks for finding that!
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by jessouyang 5y ago
Thank you! - We released first released our web-app and Figma plugin around a year ago, right at the end of our YC batch (Jo and I went into YC pre-product). Our developer integrations (API/CLI/SDK and Developer Mode) were release
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by jessouyang 5y ago
Thank you! That means a ton. 1. We integrated with Figma first on the design side due to a couple of reasons: we were really excited about the growth on the platform, the community, and their ability to serve as a single source of truth for
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by jessouyang 5y ago
1. At the moment, we've seen teams use Ditto to localize if they already localize their mockups (i.e. have mockups in different languages). However, we're releasing the ability to create variants of text (i.e. for translations, us
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by jessouyang 5y ago
Thank you for the support! It is kind of crazy how much copy-pasting there is for every single role involved. We think a large part of it has to do with the fact that copy exists and is worked on horizontally in an org -- unlike more vertic
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by jessouyang 5y ago
That's great to hear! We've definitely seen an increasing amount of teams separate product copy out into JSONs ("decoupling copy and code"), and we hope Ditto can help them manage that. We don't have a standard SLA
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by jessouyang 5y ago
Many localization services / Translation Management Systems (TMS) (like those listed) or developer tools (Lokalize, Phrase, etc.) tack on l10n as a layer at the very end (after development). Especially with these 3rd party contractor t
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Launch HN: Ditto (YC W20) – Keep product text in sync from design to production
223 points by jessouyang 5y ago|70 comments
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by jessouyang 5y ago
Ditto (YC W20) | Backend + Full-stack Engineers | Onsite (SF) or Remote (US Only) | https://www.dittowords.com/careers Ditto allows teams to manage their copy from design to production with a single source of truth. Over 26
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Ditto (YC W20) Is Hiring Back End and Full-Stack Engineers(dittowords.com)
1 points by jessouyang 5y ago
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by jessouyang 5y ago
Jess and Jo here, and we're excited to share Ditto with you all ( https://dittowords.com ). Ditto is a way to manage and componentize product text from design to development. Think of a headless CMS but with the text from you
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Show HN: Ditto – Sync copy from Figma to production(dittowords.com)
7 points by jessouyang 5y ago|1 comments
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Ditto (YC W20) Is Hiring Backend and Fullstack Engineers(dittowords.com)
1 points by jessouyang 5y ago
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Text should be thought of as a system(blog.dittowords.com)
4 points by jessouyang 6y ago|0 comments
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The most important part of a product is actually the text(blog.dittowords.com)
18 points by jessouyang 6y ago|2 comments