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Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #7

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Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #7

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Post by shaheenkdr »

anadalakra wrote: post #3

We’re Anada and Ilya, the co-founders of BoldVoice ( https://www.boldvoice.com/ ). BoldVoice is an accent coaching app that helps non-native speakers learn and practice the standard American accent. As immigrants to the US, we’ve personally experienced that having a foreign accent can affect your confidence and job opportunities (by as much as 20%, according to studies). So we built this app to help non-native Englis…

Pretty cool product out there ! I come from the Conversational AI background ! Can imagine the hard work you've done to get this right on the accuracy ! Looking forward to testing it out ! Wishing all the best !

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #7

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Post by alexvilhena »

the_lonely_road wrote: post #14
alexvilhena wrote: post #5

Hi - we’re Alex, Thiago, and Marcel, founders of Plug ( https://www.plugpagamentos.com/ ). We are live in Brazil, and currently onboarding our first beta customers in the US and LatAm. Plug is an API to manage multiple payments providers. Through a single integration, businesses can connect to multiple providers and route transactions between them. It’s hard to know who the right payments provider for your business i…

Could you give us a high level breakdown of your KYC/AML compliance?

Sure! We're actually a software layer. The KYC/AML is done by the providers. We only help our clients ensure this is a smooth process by letting them know the steps beforehand and aggregating all the relevant information before sending through.

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #7

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Post by mattzito »

ilyausorov wrote: post #18
mabbo wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you decide what the 'standard American accent' is? I spent some time on a remote team working with a great group of folks from the US South. I'm Canadian. I picked up a lot of accent changes that stick with me today ("y'all" is the best plural second-person pronoun ever). But even things like California vs New York, there are differences. Urban vs rural. Minnesota vs Florida. There are interesting implications…

We can go down a very deep rabbit hole with this question, because you're absolutely right there isn't just one accent spoken in America. But for what it's worth the term is defined as the "umbrella accent of American English spoken by a majority of Americans and widely perceived, among Americans, as lacking any distinctly regional, ethnic, or socioeconomic characteristics". You can read about that more here: https:/…

Pure GAE/SAE is fairly arch and stilted - I assume you are chilling out on some of the more arcane aspects like liquid Us in "reduce" and "student" and "forehead" as "fahred"? Most dialect coaches default to something looser when teaching an american accent because SAE sounds almost british if you're strictly adhering to it.

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #7

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Post by brazzledazzle »

brunovcosta wrote: post #6

I'm Bruno, founder of Abstra ( https://abstra.app/ ). Abstra is a no-code tool that allows designers to build web apps. Imagine Figma, but we export a functional web application. Here's a timelapsed demo showing it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fObVcHcd_w . As opposed to most famous no-code tools, we don't do any nested-based editing (e.g. tree structure like Webflow - which is an amazing tool, but is b…

This looks pretty neat. Just wanted to give you a heads up that the word "regulamentation" might be a typo in your docs here:

https://docs.abstra.app/#security-by-default

Even outside of that word the paragraph itself reads kind of weird:

"The Abstra team makes all the necessary effort to make your project secure and compliant with all the actual rules, good practices, and regulamentation."

I took a stab at changing it:

The Abstra team is dedicated to securing your project in compliance with rules, regulations and standards using industry best practices.

Not sure if that jibes with the legal side of things but I think it reads better.

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #7

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Post by alexvilhena »

arthurcoudouy wrote: post #12
alexvilhena wrote: post #5

Hi - we’re Alex, Thiago, and Marcel, founders of Plug ( https://www.plugpagamentos.com/ ). We are live in Brazil, and currently onboarding our first beta customers in the US and LatAm. Plug is an API to manage multiple payments providers. Through a single integration, businesses can connect to multiple providers and route transactions between them. It’s hard to know who the right payments provider for your business i…

I've got a couple of questions: Do you plan on developing a no-code interface soon? Before learning to code, Stripe on my own landing page was a no-go. Do you help in completing the integration after your own or should I do a proper Stripe integration after Plug? Congrats on the launch anyway, I'm convinced that your solution makes sense for early stage company. You'll have to provide more value in the future to keep…

feel free to reach out if you have any more questions: a@plugpagamentos.com

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #7

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Post by ilyausorov »

alexedwalvarado wrote: post #19
anadalakra wrote: post #3

We’re Anada and Ilya, the co-founders of BoldVoice ( https://www.boldvoice.com/ ). BoldVoice is an accent coaching app that helps non-native speakers learn and practice the standard American accent. As immigrants to the US, we’ve personally experienced that having a foreign accent can affect your confidence and job opportunities (by as much as 20%, according to studies). So we built this app to help non-native Englis…

Having an accent increased my chances of success in US. I had an Italian strong accent. When my English got better, people thought I was from Mexico. People were not as fascinated to the accent and lost some interest. I think the problem is not necessarily the accent, but how open people in front of you are to new accents and how confident you are with yourself being a foreigner. I'm interested on how the product wil…

Thanks for sharing your story! My cofounder Anada and I can both relate, as we're both immigrants to the US as well.

Something we want to stress with this product is that we want BoldVoice to live up to it's name -- helping non native English speakers feel bolder and more comfortable when speaking English and be more clearly understood.

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #7

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Post by erehweb »

Sriverop wrote: post #2

Hi, we are Salvador and Max from Levo ( https://www.levo.mx ) a high yield savings account for Mexico. We aggregate the savings accounts of our users and negotiate significantly better interest rates from other banks on their behalf. 65% of Mexican savers keep their savings in their checking or savings accounts, yet 97% of all bank accounts are non-interest bearing. This is partly due to a highly concentrated banking…

Very interesting. Does Mexico have anything akin to US Federal Deposit Insurance? Does Levo?

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #7

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Post by samstave »

brunovcosta wrote: post #6

I'm Bruno, founder of Abstra ( https://abstra.app/ ). Abstra is a no-code tool that allows designers to build web apps. Imagine Figma, but we export a functional web application. Here's a timelapsed demo showing it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fObVcHcd_w . As opposed to most famous no-code tools, we don't do any nested-based editing (e.g. tree structure like Webflow - which is an amazing tool, but is b…

Whats your email plz (put it in your profile)

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #7

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Post by ilyausorov »

shaheenkdr wrote: post #21
anadalakra wrote: post #3

We’re Anada and Ilya, the co-founders of BoldVoice ( https://www.boldvoice.com/ ). BoldVoice is an accent coaching app that helps non-native speakers learn and practice the standard American accent. As immigrants to the US, we’ve personally experienced that having a foreign accent can affect your confidence and job opportunities (by as much as 20%, according to studies). So we built this app to help non-native Englis…

Pretty cool product out there ! I come from the Conversational AI background ! Can imagine the hard work you've done to get this right on the accuracy ! Looking forward to testing it out ! Wishing all the best !

Thanks, appreciate it! If you have any feedback or thoughts to the pronunciation analysis feel free to send them to founders@boldvoice.com!

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #7

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Post by geofft »

mattzito wrote: post #23
ilyausorov wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We can go down a very deep rabbit hole with this question, because you're absolutely right there isn't just one accent spoken in America. But for what it's worth the term is defined as the "umbrella accent of American English spoken by a majority of Americans and widely perceived, among Americans, as lacking any distinctly regional, ethnic, or socioeconomic characteristics". You can read about that more here: https:/…

Pure GAE/SAE is fairly arch and stilted - I assume you are chilling out on some of the more arcane aspects like liquid Us in "reduce" and "student" and "forehead" as "fahred"? Most dialect coaches default to something looser when teaching an american accent because SAE sounds almost british if you're strictly adhering to it.

If by "liquid U" you mean pronouncing /ju/, then no, GAE pronounces it "redooce" and "stoodent", not "redyooce" and "styoodent." From the article:

> yod-dropping after alveolar consonants (with new pronounced /nu/, not /nju/)

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