This is fantastic, congrats Jess and Jo on a really impressive product!!
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
#62Congrats 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.
Thanks so much for the support -- we feel really lucky and excited to have been able to grow Ditto over the last year. :)
Re: Launch HN: Ditto (YC W20) – Keep product text in sync from design to production
#63i 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 m…
decision maker, technical, non-technical, investor, slides vs web, high level vs low level, age, expert vs beginner, user category A vs user category B, casual vs formal, brief vs expanded. so multiple tags would be best?
maybe grand vision this could be different UIs for skill-level.
Re: Launch HN: Ditto (YC W20) – Keep product text in sync from design to production
#64Clearly this is meant for bigger teams than we have at work. I've never heard the term "copy" being used this way before, nor do we have a separate design team (we wear a lot of hats).
I'm curious though, given that such a system clearly would be quite integral to the product development, how would enterprises be comfortable with this as an off-premise SaaS? Like, what if Ditto gets bought next year by Google and killed off 6 months later?
Our software is also an integral part for our customers, and while most of our smaller customers are fine with our cloud solution, all the bigger customers want on-premise installations with full source-code in escrow.
Re: Launch HN: Ditto (YC W20) – Keep product text in sync from design to production
#65Clearly this is meant for bigger teams than we have at work. I've never heard the term "copy" being used this way before, nor do we have a separate design team (we wear a lot of hats). I'm curious though, given that such a system clearly would be quite integral to the product development, how would enterprises be comfortable with this as an off-premise SaaS? Like, what if Ditto gets bought next year by Google and kil…
Although we do think we play an integral part in the product development process, if teams switched off Ditto, they wouldn't be any worse-off than they were before. The text would still exist in their mockups, and their apps can continue to serve the structured JSONs of text that we generate. Because we aren't a CDN, they aren't dependent on us to actually serve that text.
However, we do hope to have an on-prem offering for enterprise customers in the future, especially those with tighter security constraints!
Re: Launch HN: Ditto (YC W20) – Keep product text in sync from design to production
#66Clearly this is meant for bigger teams than we have at work. I've never heard the term "copy" being used this way before, nor do we have a separate design team (we wear a lot of hats). I'm curious though, given that such a system clearly would be quite integral to the product development, how would enterprises be comfortable with this as an off-premise SaaS? Like, what if Ditto gets bought next year by Google and kil…
Re usage of "copy": if you've heard the term "copy editing", it's within the same ballpark.
Re: Launch HN: Ditto (YC W20) – Keep product text in sync from design to production
#67Clearly this is meant for bigger teams than we have at work. I've never heard the term "copy" being used this way before, nor do we have a separate design team (we wear a lot of hats). I'm curious though, given that such a system clearly would be quite integral to the product development, how would enterprises be comfortable with this as an off-premise SaaS? Like, what if Ditto gets bought next year by Google and kil…
Re usage of "copy": if you've heard the term "copy editing", it's within the same ballpark.
I've somehow dodged that one too. Not being a native speaker is probably related. Thanks though, now it makes more sense.
Re: 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
#69Hey Congrats on launching. Do I understand that your service offers kind of a localization service? How is it different and what's the value over services offering translations as a service? Like POEditor[0]? or Localazy? [0]: https://poeditor.com [1]: https://localazy.com
Many localization services / Translation Management Systems (TMS) (like those listed) or developer tools (Lokalize, Phrase, etc.) tack on l10n as a layer at the very end (after development). Especially with these 3rd party contractor tools, a lot of the time the l10n happens without context of the design / product -- they just translate the strings that exist in production. At the moment, we've seen teams in Ditto us…
Jesse, Lokalise integrates seamlessly with Figma and does exactly what you're saying, pioneering designer/developer-led localization.
https://lokalise.com/blog/figma-lokalise/
It's how Slack translated into multiple languages before their IPO.
Re: Launch HN: Ditto (YC W20) – Keep product text in sync from design to production
#70Hey Congrats on launching. Do I understand that your service offers kind of a localization service? How is it different and what's the value over services offering translations as a service? Like POEditor[0]? or Localazy? [0]: https://poeditor.com [1]: https://localazy.com
Many localization services / Translation Management Systems (TMS) (like those listed) or developer tools (Lokalize, Phrase, etc.) tack on l10n as a layer at the very end (after development). Especially with these 3rd party contractor tools, a lot of the time the l10n happens without context of the design / product -- they just translate the strings that exist in production. At the moment, we've seen teams in Ditto us…
Hello, Jakub @ https://localazy.com here :-) Context is really a big thing and for that reason, Figma & other integrations comes soon with Localazy as well, and we can only confirm importance of considering internationalization and localization from the very early phases of idealization & development.
Moreover, productive workflow is not only about comfortable string management, but also about making it a breeze for the whole team from designer and developer to the contributor.
While we are not currently focused on drafting copy (there are better tools for that), our users especially love the way of work with Localazy. A plethora of solutions provides valuable assistance to the human. We strive to automate as much of the process as we can for you. So humans assist Localazy to get the work done only when they are required to.
Do you have a minute? Check the brief intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UymDt20nOIc
Thanks for your time. All readers welcome to give Localazy a try.
Best regards,
Jakub