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General Translation has raised $27m led by @martin_casado at @a16z to localize the world’s best companies.
Today, @generaltxn serves Ramp, Cursor, and Sierra by translating apps, sites, docs, slide decks, and even product videos into dozens of languages.
a16z invested alongside @upfrontvc, Peter Thiel, Fei-Fei Li, and more. 🧵
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We’re thrilled to lead General Translation’s Series A.
The best companies today deliberately build their product and services for a global audience. As a result, their products need to be in every language and localized to meet their customers where they’re at.
@generaltxn’s unique approach is full-stack localization. Rather than having designers and engineers rip out translatable text from design and logic, teams can now use General Translation’s developer primitives to integrate directly into their React apps, documentation, and more.
Cursor, Cognition, Ramp, and Clickhouse already use General Translation to scale their products to every language.
@archiemckenzie_ understands both the messiness of language and how to build software that scales, and the result is a product with a laser focus on craft.
By @JenniferHli, @martin_casado, and @JasonSCui
General Translation has raised $27m led by @martin_casado at @a16z to localize the world’s best companies.
Today, @generaltxn serves Ramp, Cursor, and Sierra by translating apps, sites, docs, slide decks, and even product videos into dozens of languages.
a16z invested alongside @upfrontvc, Peter Thiel, Fei-Fei Li, and more. 🧵
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Is it still worth designing docs for humans?
We wrote about cleaning up mental clutter, visual funnels, and micro-UI details. Plus a hit list of anti-patterns. Read more below (part 2)!
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Excited to introduce Fig, a clean-slate TS UI framework inspired by React! It supports concurrency, server components, streaming SSR, and view transitions and comes w/ TanStack Router+Start integrations.
I think React is basically The One True Way, and Fig is my attempt to reimplement its beautiful ideas in slightly different ways. I wanted a smaller bundle size, more usage of the platform (AbortSignals, regular DOM props instead of camel-cased, native instead of synthetic events.)
Most importantly, I wanted to build a library that was easy to use without a metaframework, and that was easy to build metaframeworks on top of. Fig has (imo) really elegant built-in ways to stream data from the server to the client; express CSS/asset dependencies; and stream and refresh server components. 🧵
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Hey sorry I can’t hang out with you, you’re outside my isochrone
🌟 Get true reachability calculations with the Isochrones API.
This API calculates the area you can reach from an origin point within a set amount of time — but unlike a radius, it accounts for actual road network travel times ➡️ goo.gle/3RnkOp2
ALT Multiple overlapping shapes with irregular borders imposed onto a map.
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I deeply resent that AI has forced me to eliminate em dashes from my writing for fear of signaling slop
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Say hello to Inlet🥳—a space to savor what you love, slow down, and build real connections.
For the next 36 hours, use the invite key 🔑 ‘early2021’ to sign up and try out the web app. (Be sure to use desktop.) Inlet is still a work in progress...so let us know what you think!
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“Language is the first site of loss and our first defense against it.”
—Paisley Rekdal
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If universities could name Zoom breakout rooms after donors the academic funding crisis would be solved.
