Hey this is Tejas. I remember exploring the product and chatting with Jess way back in August 2020. Great to see Ditto here on HN. Congrats on the launch :)
Hey Tejas, great to see you here on HN! Thanks for the support both then and now :)
Launch HN: Ditto (YC W20) – Keep product text in sync from design to production
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Re: Launch HN: Ditto (YC W20) – Keep product text in sync from design to production
#52How would it handle translations?
Re: Launch HN: Ditto (YC W20) – Keep product text in sync from design to production
#53i use diff messaging pretty much everywhere based on the medium of communication and audience
We're actually launching a feature called Variants to tackle this very use case (and translations) in our app in the next few days! It's definitely been highly requested by teams using Ditto and will hopefully allow them to create variations of text for different mediums, audience, user segments, etc.
Curious to hear what kinds of audiences/mediums of communication you typically account for in your product, and how much variation in the product text is written for each?
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#54Thank you. This seems very useful, and I'm considering proposing this right now to a couple of companies I work with. However, as a person who used things like poeditor in different small places, there was always a concern about monthly payment for something used quite rarely. In this case, they'd pay for 1-2 months of intense use and then cancel the subscriptions. In those small companies, I think they would gladly…
Small companies are like 10% of the software market -- 75% of the revenue is sitting in large enteprises. So, frankly, while getting you on board is great for marketing and customer development (a lot easier to engage with a small company than a big one)... don't expect them to really care.
Sad but true. I'm not making any demands, just telling why it'd be a reluctant sell in some cases
Re: Launch HN: Ditto (YC W20) – Keep product text in sync from design to production
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry that's unclear - we have security measures in place for our app as a whole, regardless of the plan. "Advanced security" refers to the fact that we'll work with enterprise teams to implement custom security measures they might request. For all plans, we have: encryption at rest, encryption in transit, data stored in SOC 1, SOC 2, and ISO 27001-certified data centers, single sign on and mandatory 2FA for employee…
For $30??? You’re massively underpricing that!
"$30 Per editor, per month"
Re: Launch HN: Ditto (YC W20) – Keep product text in sync from design to production
#56This looks really great! My team wanted a CMS but didn't find the budget. We manage our copy in JSON files in our apps, much like this seems to do, so I actually think this would be a very straightforward transition, though we'd need to overhaul our copy keys. Just need to sell our product org on the UX of Ditto as we would be buying into Ditto as a major part of our development lifecycle. I see the pricing is just b…
That's great to hear! We've definitely seen an increasing amount of teams separate product copy out into JSONs ("decoupling copy and code"), and we hope Ditto can help them manage that. We don't have a standard SLA on the API at the moment, but in the past, we've negotiated and signed SLAs for enterprise teams. Happy to do so for you as well if you want to shoot an email to founders@dittowords.com!
The JSON decision has served us well. We knew we wanted to support multiple languages from the start, so it was pretty essential.
Re: Launch HN: Ditto (YC W20) – Keep product text in sync from design to production
#57The visuals on https://dittowords.com/ were a breath of fresh air. Congrats on the launch!
That means a lot, especially because we handle all of the design (including the landing page) in-house. Thanks for the support!
Re: Launch HN: Ditto (YC W20) – Keep product text in sync from design to production
#58How would it handle translations?
Right now, teams in Ditto use it as a translation/l10n solution if they already localize their mockups. However, we are hoping to support this more fully in the very near feature (likely this upcoming week!) with the ability to create variants of text in mockups in Ditto (including languages, user groups, states, etc.).
Re: Launch HN: Ditto (YC W20) – Keep product text in sync from design to production
#59Congrats on the launch Jessica and Jolena! Really cool to see your progress on Ditto since you first started, hoping nothing but the best for your continued success.
Re: Launch HN: Ditto (YC W20) – Keep product text in sync from design to production
#60Simple, beautiful app solving a real pain point. Kudos to OP and team! I have some general questions, not directly related to the product, but rather, the company: - How long has it been since you released the product? I’ve always been curious as to when exactly in a product’s lifecycle that HN Launches occur. Certainly seems to skew towards somewhat established companies. - You have some great names using your produ…
Thank you! - We released first released our web-app and Figma plugin around a year ago, right at the end of our YC batch (Jo and I went into YC pre-product). Our developer integrations (API/CLI/SDK and Developer Mode) were released 2 months ago. - All of our customers (including larger enterprises) have actually found us organically! We were lucky to have the support of different design and content/UX writing communi…
Thanks for the response. Very impressive, and best of luck!