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