This is great, I'm particularly excited about the pricing. I was also wondering about the Crowd Translation Community. I do a lot of research that lands me in foreign texts. Often they are 100-200 years old & contain industry-specific terms.
I've always been wary of shelling out for a translation service, as I worry that the subject matter & age may make translation to English an expensive/arduous process. But, at a penny a word, I'd definitely be more willing to at least test the waters.
Being that I may momentarily have your attention, could you give an opinion on whether or not you think my use case would actually be successful? Again, with your pricing, I'm down to try it regardless, so I'm signing up, but I don't want to get my hopes up too high.
EDIT: Just so you are aware, I'm trying to add money to my account, but the confirmation email doesn't seem to be arriving. I've requested another, nothing. Maybe you are getting hammered by activity right now, but UX-wise I think forcing confirmation of the account should come BEFORE you enter your financial information, not after, as it leaves me babysitting it.
Really interesting use case. To be honest I don't know if it would work well, I don't think anyone has used for that purpose, but I would certainly love to try. If you are not satisfied, we can always return your money :)
Also, please check your spam / trash, etc. We have had cases of emails going to the wrong bin. In any case, if you shoot me an email @ vasco [at] unbabel [dot] com I would be happy to make sure that everything is running smoothly for you.
Awesome, thanks, Vasco, I look forward to trying it out this weekend when I have some time to go through old sources.
Also - just on the UX part, when I was able to confirm the account, my balance read as 0, I refreshed, still 0, so I went to top up again, added 5 Euro, on the confirmation screen it said my current balance was still 0, but then when I went into my dashboard it revealed I had a 10 Euro balance.
I don't at all mind, 5 or 10 are both fine for me, only mentioning in case that order of events is at all useful to you in debugging things.
Congrats on the launch, and good luck. I can't wait to use it :)
I've always been wary of shelling out for a translation service, as I worry that the subject matter & age may make translation to English an expensive/arduous process. But, at a penny a word, I'd definitely be more willing to at least test the waters.
Being that I may momentarily have your attention, could you give an opinion on whether or not you think my use case would actually be successful? Again, with your pricing, I'm down to try it regardless, so I'm signing up, but I don't want to get my hopes up too high.
EDIT: Just so you are aware, I'm trying to add money to my account, but the confirmation email doesn't seem to be arriving. I've requested another, nothing. Maybe you are getting hammered by activity right now, but UX-wise I think forcing confirmation of the account should come BEFORE you enter your financial information, not after, as it leaves me babysitting it.