the permanent beta: the same community, the ever-changing product - how to web 2014
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Overture
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Salut!
@mayel2b @josef
@babelverse
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Prelude
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Building blocks
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Curiosity, Breaking stuff, Experimenting
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Learn through doing, not books
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“Houston we have a problem”
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Living in Greece
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Lost
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Bureaucracy!
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Cuisine
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Business meetings
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Events & Conferences
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Phone a friend
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2011
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“Post-It Note Model Canvas”
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Legend: Babelverse’s XP
CommunityProductAwarenessBusiness
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Babelfish?
Reverse Babel?
Tower of Babel?
Babelverse!
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Our vision is for everyone to be able to truly communicate and understand each other, while
simply speaking their own native languages.
Vision
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Mission
Assemble a strong community of millions of members around the world. Achieving on-demand interpretation in any
language pair.
Making it affordable and easily accessible to the largest number. Creating a fair source of income for the community.
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Overnighting It(Internal 24h Hackathon)
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#helpJapan
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150 volunteers
4 hours on average
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- #helpjapan- Minimal UI
- API to the rescue- Usable right away
- Human translation
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Faking it
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Faking It
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Prototype
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Overnighting It - The Sequel
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Press release
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1,000 people
tuned in from 80
countries
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Overnighting It - The Sequel
- Rudimentary quality control
- Sparked Curiosity
- Press Release
- 100’s of Volunteers
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“The Dropdown”
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Cutaway
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Community Skill Level
- Differentiating skill-sets became fundamental
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- “Fair trade”
- Taking cost of living into
account
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Launching It (Beta)
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Shed
3 months rapid product development
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Rapid Product Development
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Rapid Product Development
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Rapid Product Development
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Official partnership
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Donations
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- Ran full 2 days service- Official partnership
No more faking
- Paid pro interpreters- Minimal revenue via virtual ticket
sales & donations- Community localisation
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Interlude
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Showing off our non-existing mobile app
OH! One more
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Selling It
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Live streaming
product
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Entirely localised in
each language
Global conversation
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Virtual Booth
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Enterprise Clients / Partnerships
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- Non-scalable
Live streaming product
- Most of our time on Pre-sales & Customer service
- Many requests
- Working to someones else’s spec
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Interlude
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World Languages Project
A collaborative effort powered by individuals and organisations to compile a comprehensive
and media rich database of all languages, dialects and accents.
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Epiphany
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Babelverse is NOT an app. IT IS a community, with matchmaking,
transactions and trust mechanisms.
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API
Build a few apps on our own API
Let 3rd parties (partners, enterprise, developers) build other use cases
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We currently live here
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Fuck the product!Build the solution!