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laurentsabbah

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#Startups, growth hacking and long walks to the fridge --- #TheWorldIsFlat VP Customer Acquisition @Bablic_com
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laurentsabbah··on Show HN: Translate Your Website to Wookie (Star Wars)
Hi guys!

With all the Star Wars buzz, we just added Wookie as a language you can translate your website to.

We even translated our own homepage to Wookie, check it out: https://www.bablic.com/wk

Thanks!

laurentsabbah··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)
https://www.bablic.com - On site, Tel-Aviv

Product Manager - get in touch laurent@bablic.com

laurentsabbah··on Ask HN: UI/UX Feedback on Our Localization Solution Please?
Hi guys,

Would really appreciate it if you can take a minute to test out https://www.Bablic.com - just enter any URL you'd like to translate (preferably your own website) and select the language you want to add.

You can then manually edit all of the elements you see (text, images, css, error msgs, forms, etc) just by right-clicking on them in the user-friendly, visual, editor.

Once you're happy with the results just click ACTIVATE NOW to get the one line of code which will translate your whole website.

Would really like to get some feedback from the community on the whole user experience.

I'll offer one month free on any of our paid plans to anyone from here who has any constructive feedback!

Thank you!

laurentsabbah··on Ask HN: What's that website where they upload daily UI ideas from other sites?
Found it! LittleBigDetails :)
laurentsabbah··on So you installed Google Analytics, now what?
Most people install Analytics and that's where it ends. Continue reading to see some of the things we've learnt by properly analyzing our Analytics stats.

Comment if you've learnt anything from GA that drastically increased engagement and/or conversions on your site.

laurentsabbah··on Making Sense of My Google Analytics’ Stats
Installing Google Analytics isn't enough. Properly reading and acting on your stats is what we should all be doing. What I've learnt from an hour of analyzing my stats.

What has Analytics helped you learn?

laurentsabbah··on The startup that's reinventing website localization
Unlike other localization solutions, Bablic lets you edit your site in real time through their editor.

Just enter your URL on the homepage, select the language you want to add and choose from machine or human translation.

You can then manually edit all of the elements a user sees on your site (text, images, css, forms, error msgs, etc) just by right-clicking on them in the user-friendly visual editor.

laurentsabbah··on Show HN: New Unique Wordpress Translation/Localization JS Plugin
Bablic lets you translate any website within minutes, all by just adding one line of JS code onto your HEADER.

Just enter your URL into the homepage at Bablic.com - choose from machine or human translation.

You can then manually edit all elements (text, images, css) just by right-clicking on them through the user-friendly editor.

The Wordpress Plugin is finally out.

laurentsabbah··on Show HN: Easy Website localization – Edit text, images and CSS with 1 click
Been working on this localization startup after dealing with countless requests to translate websites for my freelance customers, it was always a tedious, complicated, expensive task that both myself and my customers hated.

Bablic was born.

Bablic lets you EASILY localize a website. Choose from machine translation or professional human translation right from our editor.

The cool thing about Bablic is it lets you manually edit components in real-time and see how it looks like on your site, in our editor.

You can manually edit text, replace images and best of all, edit CSS/style in order to make sure the look and feel of your website stays consistent in each and every language you choose to offer.

For example, some words in French are longer than in English and usually, with other companies, translating into French could break your website's layout due to that. With Bablic you can easily make a specific font smaller or adjust padding for the French language and have it fit just perfectly.

I'd appreciate if you guys can give it a try, it's right on our homepage, all you need to do is submit your URL and get instant access to the editor to start translating and playing with our tool.

Would love to hear some feedback from the community.

Thanks in advance!

laurentsabbah··on [dead]
What's new lol
laurentsabbah··on Stunning Photographs of Fractals in Nature
I have an extremely hard time believing what's real and what isn't anymore in terms of photography.

All of the filters...

laurentsabbah··on Uber says it is leaving Kansas after new regulations set
Weird, UberX hasn't left Montreal yet even though the city seized about 40 cars being used for UberX about a week ago and gave pretty hefty fines to the owners...
laurentsabbah··on Why Do We Play Video Games That Feel Like Work?
The beauty of psychology, behavior and game-mechanics!
laurentsabbah··on Elance-oDesk Rebrands As Upwork, Debuts Slack-Like Chat Platform
I do, but it usually takes hours to get a reply back. With the chat feature, when you see someone online, you can get their skype immediately.
laurentsabbah··on Elance-oDesk Rebrands As Upwork, Debuts Slack-Like Chat Platform
The live chat feature is a game-changer. We need things fast, tired of sending an inquiry and getting an answer a day later when I usually already settled my issue or found someone local ready to do it.
laurentsabbah··on Tracking an Item on Hacker News
Regularly, was just browsing a cool Berlin 1945 and Berlin today website, everything was smooth until it made it to HN!
laurentsabbah··on Why startups and small businesses need a multilingual website
Right, almost nothing worth doing happens overnight! In terms of staff though, many do have staff that speak another language for example Spanish, yet they still don't offer Spanish as a language on their website.

Later on, when hiring staff, you can make it a requirement to be at least bilingual which a lot of European and Asian companies have started doing.

laurentsabbah··on Why startups and small businesses need a multilingual website
Right, there's always things to do at a startup, this can be up there with them and eventually I strongly believe it will become more of a necessity than a luxury.
laurentsabbah··on Why startups and small businesses need a multilingual website
It depends what kind of website you run, of course this doesn't apply to everyone....and you need to build your own strategy in terms of how it works and how it will work.

But if done properly, the potential is limitless and it's a cost-effective way of reaching new customers.

laurentsabbah··on Why startups and small businesses need a multilingual website
Right, there definitely are pros and cons, but you'll never know the power of translating your app to Spanish until you do so.

It's an investment like any other in business, but it can definitely pay off. And once you see some results, you'll be more open to adding even more languages.

I'm not sure if you spend money on marketing your app, but let's say your CPA in English is $15, you may find out that in Spanish it's $7.

Bablic also offers inexpensive translation compared to other ways of building a new website/backend and so on...one line of code and relatively cheap monthly plans.

laurentsabbah··on Why startups and small businesses need a multilingual website
Not sure why you say this is dead wrong? It just stresses that focusing on only language is leaving a lot of opportunity on the table.

Of course, make sure you have a business in your primary customers' language, I agree!

laurentsabbah··on Laptop Recommendations
All I can say is try and get something with an SSD drive, makes a world of difference in terms of speed.
laurentsabbah··on This man has $220M and a plan to take down Amazon
It gets press :)
laurentsabbah··on US Military's Self-Steering Bullets Can Hit Moving Targets
Hopefully they don't end up on the streets in a few years...
laurentsabbah··on Montreal cracks down on UberX; seizes 40 cars and fines drivers
I've lived in Montreal my whole life, left two months ago. The city is pathetic, their old laws are ruining it. There's no progress, it's sad to see.
laurentsabbah··on How one tweet wiped $8bn off Twitter's value
Shocked this headline isn't a sponsored post on my FB newsfeed with an image of the world ending and link to somebogusnewssite dot com
laurentsabbah··on Newly minted MBA? It's the best job market in years
Read my mind...
laurentsabbah··on Why this CEO believes an MBA is worthless
This has been on my mind ever since I read The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman a while back, those days are gone.
laurentsabbah··on Ticket Booking Startup Beijing Weiying Raises $105M
Big news for the startup scene down there.
laurentsabbah··on Burdened with Debt, Law School Graduates Struggle in Job Market
The world is changing...even here in Israel, without any debt, salaries for law school graduates are extremely low and it is very hard to land a job even at that, a real struggle. On another note, the hi-tech and startup jobs are extremely good, huge demand, good salaries.
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