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Cool! That's really simple.

How do you source translators? Does someone proof-read the translation? Basically, I'd like to know more about "Unbabel Crowd Translation community" :)

While I'd say this is perfect to support an app/consumer product, would you recommend it for a higher price SaaS product?

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My guess would be that a translator receives the original text along with Google Translate's (or some other service's) version, and then proofreads it using the original as a reference.

You almost nailed it. It is pretty much like that but there is more than one person editing. It is a chain of editors that work in sequence.

right now we do facebook ads, post on job boards, try the usual things. We have some interesting ideas on how to tap to the bilingual community, which hopefully will do soon. So far our clients have been really happy with the results. I would love to know more about it. Shoot me an email @ vasco [at] unbabel [dot] com, I would love to discuss.

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