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I manually did it through Google Translate using the first result of top languages in the world and it wasn't too far off.
"Translate a message 10 times into different languages and back." -> English -> Mandarin(Chinese Simplified) -> Hindi -> Spanish -> French -> Arabic -> Bengali -> Russian -> Portuguese -> Indonesian -> English "Translate messages into multiple languages and return 10 times."
This is very similar to what we are trying to do with Sidewalk. Anonymous names, chatting with people on the extension or on any specific domain or page. People seem to like the concept although we haven't reached PMF yet.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sidewalkchat/denbp...
This is my first time going through it, it's pretty easy as far as time commitments goes. The weekly updates are pretty helpful actually, while we have made a lot of progress in both users and updates, but looking back at the past 8 weeks there were a number of goals that we didn't end up doing because "time got away from us" or The group sessions have been very hit or miss, it's often too much just introducing yourself instead of being able to ask questions that they might be able to help you with. And then there is a 22 section "curriculum" which are just YC articles and videos that you have to mark that you completed, generally pretty solid reads, but all 22 over 8 weeks feels like a lot of busy work than actual work, so I'm playing catch up right now. Overall I'd say do it, it's free and does give you something to keep track of your weeks, because they do fly by super fast. But we've tripled the number of users by mostly dumb luck and some persistence, so I would do it again.
If you want to see what we've been working on the past 8 weeks, you can check us out on the chrome store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sidewalkchat/denbp...
I've actually been working on a browser extension this year that is directly inspired by the older web (early 00's for me) where you can chat with the other people on the same domain or page as you called Sidewalk.Chat
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sidewalkchat/denbp...
People seem to want to return to that sort of more innocent time since we just crossed 1K users.
Thanks! Obviously it's still small, but I think it would be cool if it got bigger and people would be able to chat and ask real questions about a site to other real people on it rather than asking the employees through chat who would be biased.
I've been working with a buddy of mine on a chrome extension that lets you anonymously chat with other people on the same domain or page as you.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sidewalkchat/denbp...