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Lessons from Building a Translator App That Beats Google Translate and DeepL
Recently, I made a new app called Kintoun. It’s a document translator that delivers very high quality translations and keeps the original layout almost perfectly.
I’m just a bad amateur programmer who would fail any serious technical interview, and I only spent about two weeks of spare time, besides my day job and taking care of my kid. Finding people ALREADY looking for a solution Instead of cold DMs, I searched for posts like "anyone know a tool that..." or "frustrated with [competitor]" and offered genuine help. It became so easy and magical to render highly reactive views in the browser, integrated with Rails through Action Cable, without the messy APIs and state management of traditional SPAs.
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